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Colombian-based musician/DJ Quantic recently released a fantastic new album (along with his Combo Barbaro) entitled Tradition in Transition, which I heartilly encourage everyone to pick up ASAP. They also just put out a 7″ that features a non-album cut called “Enyere Cumbaraâ€, which itself is a cover of a Julian y su Combo song out of Cali, Colombia. The original is a mega rare slice of Sout... Source: latinfunk.org
In waiting for the highly anticipated Soundway compilation Panama! Vol 2 – Latin Sounds, Cumbia Tropical & Calypso Funk on the Isthmus 1967-1977 to drop, I’ll give y’all a quick taste of what lays in store for that release. Los Superiores, who released an unthinkably rare LP entitled La Nueva Salsa de Los Superiores, bring us a track called “Descarga Superiorâ€. This was th...
28.04.2009
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28.04.2009
So it’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Panamanian music, and this week we have one of the best combos out of the country doing their own thing with both originals and covers. I’ve had this album for ages, but I get more enjoyment from it with every listen. Check it out to hear why. “Puerto Ricoâ€, originally an Eddie Palmieri tune from his shit-hot album Sentido, starts the album o...
13.11.2009
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13.11.2009
Alfredo “Chocolate†Armenteros, a legendary Afro-Cuban jazz trumpeter and pioneer of the mambo who did his thing with the likes of Arsenio Rodriguez and others, recorded a mid-seventies salsa album with one major exception. The title track off the album, “Hot Chocolate,†is a widely slept on latin funk monster with hard breaks and blistering horns and strings. I ride. Chocolate Caliente: ...
08.05.2009
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08.05.2009
 Today would be the 100th birthday of Lucho Bermudez, a personality who speaks to us in 2012 through his classic Colombian costeño songs and continuing reverberating impact on the sonic landscape of Latin America. Born on January 25th, 1912, in an inland town close to the beautiful beach city of Tolu, Colombia, this sartorial gentleman who is immediately recognizable from his patented slicked-back hair and th...
25.01.2012
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25.01.2012
Alex LaRotta is a good friend and emerging ethnomusicologist based in San Antonio, Texas.  This week he has written an outstanding overview about the incorporation of Cumbia into the Tex-Mex gamut.  Thanks, man! —————————————————————————â...
19.12.2011
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19.12.2011
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