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Digital Dubs started in 2001 as the first sound system specialized in Reggae, Dub and Dancehall in Rio de Janeiro. Their releases feature international vocalists like Ranking Joe, Earl Sixteen, Tippa Irie and Brinsley Forde as well as Brazilian artists like B Negão,...
Some tracks from a compilation I got recently in Mexico D.F. Differently of what the cover could imply, it’s full of Salsa, Pop, Electro, but as well Cumbia and...
Cumbia Villera artist El Tecla with some tracks from his second album from 2009 “Una Chance Mas”. He was the leader of the band La Ihuana Mari that stopped existing after he left in 2007 to start his solo career. Get more Cumbia Villera here and here for...
DJs Di Ghetto is a collective from Lisbon producing cool Instrumental Kuduro. Check their compilation from 2007 for free here. One of their protagonists is DJ Marfox with a live DJ set and the tracks...
Sean Casey aka The Bumps just posted on his great blog a bunch of tracks that fuse Funk Carioca and B’More. Check it out here.
Another one of my favourite blogs is launching a label: Ghetto Bassquake! Congratulations!!! The first release is from A.J. Holmes & The Hackney Empire and produced by Radioclit. You can listen to it and get more info here. Get a free Remix from Mexico’s...
A very nice compilation from Mais Um Discos with new Brazilian artists. Styles varying from new wave, tropicália, folk & indie to electronic, dancehall, baile-funk, dub, hip-hop, r ‘n’ b & folktronica. Always with Brazilian flavour, but off the nu-bossa and...
August 17 of 1960 is often referred to as the birthday of The Beatles because they played their first show in Hamburg where their career kicked off. As everywhere in the world, the Fab Four were big in Brazil and a lot of bands appeared that simply covered their songs...
DJ Pastek from Canada who brought us already an excellent album with Kuduro vs. Dubstep mashups comes up here with a cool track on his EP on my favorite Argentinean netlabel,...
Mixtape of Mexican Reggaeton. Actually I am not sure if it is all Mexican, but at least I got the stuff there and as there is not much info on artists in the tags, it’s difficult to check. Tracklist: 01. Somo De La Calle 02. DJ Rasec – La Cumbia Drums 03....
A compilation of afro-peruvian music or música criolla. Combining African, Spanish and Andean influences the genre consists of various rythms and dances like Festejo, Landó, Marinera, Alcatraz and Pregon. One of its characteristic instruments is the cajón, a wooden...
Sacassaia from Brasília produce a very interesting mixture of Brazilian styles and other Latin-American rhythms together with Rap and Dub. From their website: “In the first semester of 2008 the DJ/MC/composer Gardenel (Gabriel Gardenal) and the...
Some fresh Mexican Tribal! My buddy Acorde On told me that the Mexican Tribal stuff has not much to do with “Ghettotech”: It is played basically as warm-up on (upper) middle class house and techno parties…...
This one is from young Dominican dude Munchi living in Rotterdam. He is one of the few producers outside of Brazil making Funk Carioca close to the real style, but with sense for western production. Check it...
Positivo is a multicultural music project with five ingredients: Roots Afro Beat from Mozambique, Rocking blues from Austria, Reggae dub live, hip-hop and french contemporary punk jazz. But it’s not only about music, from their website: “Associação...
Actually not much happened in the Funk Carioca scene in 2009, already mentioned here for example. Most of the tracks use the aquecimento beat, vocals are just reduced frases and shouts and the lyrics are mostly putaria. But fortunately there have been some interesting...
I just knew that in Brazil Kuduro is played in the bars of the Angolan community and maybe on some global urban beats parties until I found out after a comment from Greg from Beat Diaspora on my Kuduro Mixtape that it was well bigger and that there was a Kuduro dance...
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