2 caribbean techno forward thinking tracks for club use.

Do sunny places have dark rooms?

DJ SOSA RD returns with an eponymously named EP with two original songs: "Belle/Hermose"

These tracks, named after the gender neutral adjectives in Spanish, explore two different synonyms of the word beautiful. In Spanish, all adjectives are traditionally gendered in the binary. The non-gendered mode of language of these words (Belle/Hermose) allow a more abstract and wide definition of beauty. They allow for a looser use of these terms, without the need of attaching them to a body or a person, referring to the beauty potentially inherent in all things.

As always, DJ SOSA RD draws influences from many places: reggaeton, late 90s trip-hop, dancehall, electro; in what can only be coined as post-world electronic music: dance floor songs for a hyper connected reality, where cultural borders have broken down and a single song can inhabit one beat, but contain sonic influences of a myriad of genres.

The track “Hermose” features Carter on the synthesizers. He is a London based musician, instrumentalist and producer.

Hermose ft. Carter

DJ SOSA RD forever.

Mixed & Mastered by DJ SOSA RD and Ander B

Mami QTQ

Plumas

Tu sonrisa en mi mente
Como plumas de ave
Cuyo vuelo ya pasó
Más esos amuletos de su ausencia
Se mecen en el aire
Mostrándose a sí mismas
Ocasionalmente
Me dan gracia

———————-

Feathers

Your smile in my mind
Like a bird’s feathers
The moment fleeting
Where it passed
But still
They float around
Showing themselves in
Fortuitous grace
From time to time

de la ghetto - tu te imaginas (fffeathery version)

I love Rosalía, but just take a minute to research the music of:
Omega
Moreno Negro
Tulile
Mala Fe
Toño Rosario
Fefita la Grande
etc.

ROSALÍA - DESPECHÁ (MERENGUE BATTLE ROYALE EDIT)

WASHED AWAY KELELS (QUICK FIX)

¿Cuan Lejos Estás?

bobo means smoke

gamo aqui sin

Turning Torso - Forma 1 (SALSEADO fix)

Rosalia - Cuuuuuuuuuteeee (DJ SOSA RD extended ballroom edit)

Closing the night at Mareo with Chico Blanco, 8kitoo and Darwin.

Recorded live at Human Club (Razzmatazz), Barcelona.

August 12, 2023

DJ SOSA RD Closing set at HUMAN (Razzmatazz) 12/08/23

screwed merengues and bachatas for your listening pleasure

download on BC
https://sosard.bandcamp.com/album/para-mi-pap

Ve Y Dile

Cama Y Mesa

DJ PYTHON vs KELMAN DURAN vs FATMAN SCOOP (MEGA NYC DJ EDIT)

The ‘island boy with internet’ is back, armed with a sampler and thousands of kilometres of fibre-optic cable. 

As dembow courses through the circuitry of club culture in the global North, who better to help us make sense of it.

That’s why Dominican artist DJ SOSA RD has returned with a second set of sample-heavy, genre-blurring collisions based around the island’s current signature rhythm. He’s here to educate as well as stimulate, with four tracks that pay explicit tribute to dembow’s originators. 

Sounding like LFO on a ragga tip, ‘i don’t even smoke’ pays dues to dembow’s spiritual godfather Monkey Black as well as innovator El Lapiz (whose work with DJ Scuff helped shape the genre’s early sound). Monkey gets a second shout out on ‘is lit’, alongside La Delfy, the scene’s first openly gay artist, which adds a shot of UK hardcore to the mix, while one of dembow’s new radicals Angel Dior inspires the wild, ruff’n’tuff dub of ‘uptown girl’.

And to throw in something different, dj g2g and PZZS take us back to the first edition of ‘island boy with internet’ turning ‘gamo aqui sin’ into a baile funk rave belter. Fidgety and hyper-present, it’s an underground EDM wet dream that just can’t be ignored. 

This EP is a testament to sampling as an art form and as a living, breathing archive of musical and cultural history. It also reminds us that however different they seem, rave culture and dembow share a pair of essential ingredients: that built from scratch DIY spirit, that restless creativity that won’t stand still.


is lit

i dont even smoke

gamo aqui sin (PZZS, dj g2g remix)

uptown girl

My set at Bossa Nova Civic Club in NYC, July 11 2025.

Thanks to Juan Sterling Diaz @sterlingjuandiaz and Fried Platano @friedplatano

Some of the styles I touch on:

Bubbling
Dembow
Detroit Techno
Baile Funk
Grime
Baltimore Club
Jersey Club
Guaracha
Jungle
Kuduro
Reggaeton
Bass
Deconstructed Club
Drill
Changa
'Latin Club'
Hard House
Dutch and Belgian Techno
Dubstep

Bossa Nova Civic Club (NYC) - July 11 2025

dembow activist

Bandcamp

caribbean rhythm exercise

BUM BUM

Part of the 69 Bootlegs pack by @chicosonido. 

https://chicosonido.bandcamp.com/album/69-bootlegs-pack

PERREO CREEPY.

TOCCAME

PXXR GVNG - Cigala (4daRatxets Edit)

Kanye West x Don Omar - Feedback vs Dale (DJS Muerte Súbita Remix)

Special creepy edit for the season

This track is featured on Chico Sonido @chicosonido presents 69 Bootlegs Pack [Various artists] © [Advance]

>> Exclusive limited edition club tools for djs from Chico and the Gang <<

Pre order: chicosonido.bandcamp.com/album/69-bootlegs-pack

Bela Lugosi Ta Muelto (Edit)

ROSALÍA - PIENSO EN TU MIRÁ (DJS Edit)

BUY = Free Download

s/o to @duvaltimothy and @djversano

Timothy Duval - Wahala (DJ SOSA Perreo Flavor) + Muy Caliente Vocals

"Edits pal club” is a collection of edits i’ve done over the last couple of years, plus two new unreleased tracks. 

As the name says, these are tracks meant for the club that span a wide genre of my influences: latin reggaeton, dominican dembow, techno, bass, pop, kuduro, trap, goth, etc. 

BUY LINK ---> FREE DOWNLOAD ON BANDCAMP

Produced, mixed and mastered by me

Cover art by Orom Boy https://www.instagram.com/lacraediciones/

Enjoy :)

Dembow Ultramix Del Futuro 2019

RIP Keith Flint

DOWNLOAD: https://donjuliososa.bandcamp.com/track/mindfields-dembow-seco-edit

Mindfields (DEMBOW SECO EDIT)

Dominican in (S)pain
Inquiries: booking@isotopia.org

DJ SOSA RD

Pinned to spotlight

Popular tracks