1st Single of compilation "Saturno 2000 - La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962 - 1983"

In 2010, I had asked Eamon Ore-Giron - aka DJ Lengua - if he would be interested in compiling a Latin project for Analog Africa, and if so, if he had a theme in mind. He replied, “Have you ever heard of rebajada?“ The question mark above my head, together with the wall of China, must have been the only other object visible from out of space because Eamon, probably noticing I got paralysed, continued, “Rebajada in Spanish means “to reduce, to lower”. It’s basically Mexican sonideros (sound-system operators) slowing down the beat of a Cumbia to create a much more tangible music to dance to. I’ll send you a mix I made last year and let me know what you think.“ And so he did.

That mix was called Rebajada Mota Mix and I began listening to it on a loop. Although I was not immediately hooked it was intriguing from the get-go, and so I kept listening until magic began unfolding. Slowed down music allows you enough time to hear right through it, revealing itself in ways I had rarely experienced before. Everything became more transparent and I was noticing sounds normally only perceptible by bats. A near psychedelic experience. That mysterious mix included a few Ecuadorian songs by Junior y su Equipo - aka Polibio Mayorga (a cult figure in the sonidero scene), a couple of Mexican tunes, one Colombian, and various Peruvian songs, undoubtedly the driving force behind this project.

The sonidero who brought Peruvian and Ecuadorian music to Mexico was the legendary Pablo Perea from Sonido Arco-Iris, and although his fingerprints are all over the compilation Saturno 2000, this selection of songs in rebajada is exclusive to DJ Lengua. With the exception of a few classics from Polibio Mayorga and La Sampuesana – the queen of all rebajadas – most of these songs were probably never performed as such before, let alone released. 

So how did rebajada come to be? In a nutshell; Rebajada started with two families of brothers – the Pereas and the Ortegas – who travelled all over Latin America and returned to Mexico with heavy loads of records which they would sell to the various sonideros always on the lookout for new tunes. Colombian beats especially seemed to fit almost perfectly with the Mexican dance steps – but they were just a bit too fast. As a result some sonideros began experimenting with equipment, and Marco Antonio Cedillo of Sonido Imperial created a revolutionary pitching system that could slow records down to an extent other players could only dream about. And so rebajada was born . . . or so we thought. 

At the same time in north of the country, in Monterrey, sonidero Gabriel Dueñez almost got electrocuted by a short circuit that nearly set his record player on fire. As a result the platter started spinning in slow motion for the rest of the party, turning Cumbia into a different affair altogether. The youngsters went crazy for it and started harassing the sonidero with requests to record cassettes for them. Reluctant at first, Dueñez finally began recording a series of pirated cassettes called “Rebajada” which included mainly Colombian cumbia and porro in slow-mo exclusively. Those tapes took the city by storm and turned rebajada into a celebrated and defiant movement of the youth. 

Of course it would not be a Mexican urban legend if it didn’t include dramaturgical elements, and so for nearly 30 years, until this day and probably for ever, both cities have been arguing and claiming ownership the creation of rebajada for themselves. But sonidera Joyce Musicolor, who never has time for such trivial arguments, got straight to the point: “Rebajada, and the equipment to perform it, is from here [Mexico City] but it was Monterrey that popularised it.“

La Borrachita - Junior Y Su Equipo (Leave a comment for Composer Polibio Mayorga, I'll forward)

Be it in the tourbus, airplanes, hotel rooms, or the backstage of the venue — as a band, touring the world means spending a lot time together. In one of these creative hangouts between being on the road and being on stage, the Asian dream team and German ambassadors for Global Bass Music, SYMBIZ, invented a word expressing general positivity and summing up the experience of traveling around the globe: "YEERUH!" (Yeah-Ru). 

Shaped into a song, "YEERUH"! is a steaming hot Global Bass anthem — Invented on the road, produced in the heart of Berlin and put to live for the first time in a township in Zimbabwe.

Now, together with three diverse remixes by Germany's bass-heaviest producer "Bukez Finest", Berlin-based Reggae innovator "Teka", and Peruvian Global Bass duo "Dengue Dengue Dengue", YEERUH! will be made available on SYMBIZ' very Bandcamp-site and in all stores worldwide on Friday, June 13th 2014.

Yeeruh!

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SYMBIZ - YEERUH! (Dengue Dengue Dengue Remix)

Introducing Chúpame El Dedo, a new group formed by Eblis Álvarez (Meridian Brothers) and Pedro Ojeda (Romperayo).
Hailing from Bogotá, Colombia, Chúpame El Dedo (Suck my Finger) deconstruct and manipulate the aesthetics of grindcore and black metal by mixing it with a strong tropical flava made of salsa, cumbia & reggaeton.

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Collaboration - Meridian Brothers & Los Suicidas

Vertigo - Bolero (Meridian Brothers & los Suicidas)

La Fiebre!

RIP Vieux Kanté 

"Mali has produced some remarkable instrumentalists, from guitarist Ali Farka Touré to kora player Toumani Diabaté and n’goni star Bassekou Kouyaté. The blind musician Noumoussa Soumaoro, better known as Vieux Kanté, deserved to be added to that list, but he died in 2005 at the age of 31, just as he was about to release this long-lost recording. He was an exponent of the kamale n’goni, the “young man’s harp”, a variant of an older ceremonial instrument, which was created in the 60s. Kanté added extra strings, invented a new style, bending notes or adding harmonics like a blues guitarist, and with his six-piece band he became a favourite in the Bamako clubs."
The Guardian newspaper, 2016


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Todo el EP " LA PURIFICADORA" de un jalon ( trae Bonus)
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JUNGLA TROPICAL // Elbarba dub ft. Lober

Taken from the 'Calypso' album - out 28th February
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Gigi Masin - Calypso

Sofa Records & Les Disques Bongo Joe présentent "Maghreb K7 Club: Synth Raï, Chaoui & Staiif 1985-1997", une compilation de musiques du Maghreb, enregistrées et produites entre 1985 et 1997 à Lyon, France. 
Cette compilation rassemble, pour la première fois en vinyle, huit titres édités alors sur cassettes audio.

Plus d'infos et pré-commandes: https://www.sofarecords.fr/maghreb-k7-club-various-synth-rai-chaoui-staifi-1985-97/i3112739099,2

Date de sortie:  27 Mars 2020

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Magrheb Cassette Club: Synth Rai, Chaoui and Staifi 1984-1997

B4. Mokhtar Mezhoud — Rahoum Yegoulou Sabirine (1997)

Parranderos De Colombia - La Muerte Del Cumbiambero (HydroSelekter Dub Mix)

Our aim is to deconstruct, distort and re-assemble the lore of (un)popular music. 

Discrepant: inconsistent; conflicting; at variance [from Latin discrepāns, from discrepāre to differ in sound, from dis-1 + crepāre to be noisy]
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