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Modern Balkan Tunes - Mama Diaspora (from generationbass.com)
Sexxy Saturday Cumbia – The Diversity and Long Life of Cumbia
May 26, 2012 - Posted by El Guero Unico
... Extra-Estrada records features some of the best modern Balkan tunes. With this new one we come to the very popular sounds of Eastern European cumbia.
Sometimes I am asked the question “Don’t you ever get tired of cumbia week after week, day after day?” The answer is a resounding “No”. Believe it or not I do not tire. The thing about cumbia is that it’s in an ever-evolving process. Every week I encounter a whole new approach to the sounds of cumbia. Whether it be a remix of a classic from its respected country of origin or something completely new with elements of other genres or even elements I can’t pinpoint exactly the origin of. This puts all fear of nu cumbia dying to rest, for me anyway. I can’t tire of an ever-evolving sound, different tempos and crazy feats of creativity. I found for myself personally to attempt to use elements of genres I favor and mash them into the nu cumbia universe. This has been a personal challenge of mine that keeps me from feeling stale and uninterested in working on new projects. My personal sound comes from my influences of post-punk, new wave, and ambience to the likes of Eno and Bowie. Others take their own personal influences into the genre (if one can actually label it as a genre anymore).
One of the big things happening right now is the whole Andean respect. Will Eede is working on finishing up his new incredible Andean mixtape that I promise will move your soul. I can’t wait to be able to post it here but I have to respectfully wait until he’s ready. But others have tapped into this style very recently. One new to this blog in particular is Señor Griff.
Bunbepe - Compilation featuring Mama Diaspora's remix by DJ Derbastler
This week: hot digital cumbia from Bunbepe, disembodied dubtech from Capricorn Productions and futuristic jazz from Beautiful Swimmers & Don Cherry
Bunbepe
Let the sunshine in! oh. it’s raining now. Fuck it, I got my shades on & I’m feeling fruity. Just like my shades make me instantly feel stoned without having to put clipper to rizla, this sort of digital cumbia makes me instantly feel the late afternoon sun on my face, several mojitos down and several more still to come. Great selection here finishing on a tango note, heralding the impending night…
1. Faraón Bantú – Macaco Mata el Toro (Batata Remix) [feat. Nova Lima]
2. Ricardo Ray – Cabo E (disqueDJ Dub Bassucka Mix)
3. The Binary Cumbia Orchestra – Ydyay (Original Mix)
4. Celina Y Reutilio – Yo Soy El Punto Cubano/Moombah Diabolo Moombah Diabolo – Jon Kwest (Dj Reaganomics Remix)
5. Petrona Martinez – Sepiterna (Thornato Remix)
6. El Remolón – Lamento De La Selva (El Remolón Remix)
7. Bleepolar – Chiquita
8. Cumba Mela – Seu Maya (Thornato Remix)
9. Chico Ye – Menea
10. Barrington Levy – Here I Come (Live) (ELMAYONESA Remix)
11. Elo & Fokn Bois – Fokn Future (Frikstailers Remix)
12. Buraka Som Sistema – Burakaton (feat. Bomba Estereo)
13. Elo & Wanlov The Kubolor & Sena – My Skin (Hijo De La Cumbia Remix)
14. Mama Diaspora – Dub in Karpaty (Nu Cumbia Derbastler Remix)
15. Gotan Project – Santa María (del Buen Ayre) (Chancha Via Circuito Remix)
http://generationbass.com/2012/04/11/midweek-mixxxtapes-bunbepe-capricorn-productions-beautiful-swimmers/
2. Ricardo Ray – Cabo E (disqueDJ Dub Bassucka Mix)
3. The Binary Cumbia Orchestra – Ydyay (Original Mix)
4. Celina Y Reutilio – Yo Soy El Punto Cubano/Moombah Diabolo Moombah Diabolo – Jon Kwest (Dj Reaganomics Remix)
5. Petrona Martinez – Sepiterna (Thornato Remix)
6. El Remolón – Lamento De La Selva (El Remolón Remix)
7. Bleepolar – Chiquita
8. Cumba Mela – Seu Maya (Thornato Remix)
9. Chico Ye – Menea
10. Barrington Levy – Here I Come (Live) (ELMAYONESA Remix)
11. Elo & Fokn Bois – Fokn Future (Frikstailers Remix)
12. Buraka Som Sistema – Burakaton (feat. Bomba Estereo)
13. Elo & Wanlov The Kubolor & Sena – My Skin (Hijo De La Cumbia Remix)
14. Mama Diaspora – Dub in Karpaty (Nu Cumbia Derbastler Remix)
15. Gotan Project – Santa María (del Buen Ayre) (Chancha Via Circuito Remix)
http://generationbass.com/2012/04/11/midweek-mixxxtapes-bunbepe-capricorn-productions-beautiful-swimmers/
Yuriy Gurzhy and Phil Meadley: Eastern Bloc Funk Experience
Kieron Tyler
It’s a moot point whether it was possible to feel the funk behind the Iron Curtain, but thanks to DJs Yuriy Gurzhy and Phil Meadley a window has been opened that suggests a few brave musical souls were aiming at the feet.Czechoslovakia’s Marta Kubisová and Hungary’s Sarolta Zalatnay feature here, and are well known from being compiled elsewhere. But this comp goes further into both those countries and East Germany, Poland and Yugoslavia. Cherry-picking the otherwise Schlager or jazz-filled catalogues of artists who made it onto state-run labels makes Eastern Bloc Funk Experience a pretty consistent listen, leaning towards the disco-funk, jazz-prog, soundtrackish end of things. “Igraj Sa Njom” from Yugoslavia-based Serb Ljurbomir Sedlar betrays a fondness for Santana. “Za Górą Gór” by Graźyna Lobaszeweska & Ergo Band would – despite the language barrier – fit snugly on a Blaxploitation soundtrack. “Disco King” by East Germany’s Gruppe Centrum begins as a ringer for Talking Heads’ "Life During Wartime" (even though it's from 1977, three years before the T Heads’s track). There’s nothing musically earth-shattering here, but it’s still an essential peak at a rarely seen side of pop’s pre-Glasnost coin.
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