The Upload

When a reptilian frenchie nomad discovered the sound of guiros & congas shaping into cumbia rhythms, he embraced the vibe and integrated these patterns into his sound... 

In love with electronic music, downtempo and global bass, he decided to try and merge his affection for latin percussions and sounds from the barrios into this 4-tracks EP, much more reggaeton, dembow and digital cumbia than his usual production style. 

A sound exploration from a Latin America lover & beginner cumbiero, with the incredible instrumental and vocal participation of the Moroccan electronic-gnawa music expert Khalil Mounji on "Gnawacumbia", and illustrated by the amazing artwork of Da Iguana's friend 91 36 Art (FR). 

Art www.instagram.com/9136art/?hl=en 
Feat soundcloud.com/khalil-mounji/tracks

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Da Iguana & Khalil Mounji - Gnawacumbia

Intiche - Wachi (Bigote Remix)

Caminando

Cumbia explosiva se compone en base a la necesidad de generar un llamado a la conciencia a través de la música. Una forma de demostrar descontento hacia las políticas que controlan hoy en día nuestro querido continente, el abuso y la opresión ejercida por los gobiernos hacia su gente.

REG046 
Producción: Sistema Beat Andino 
Masterización: Alvaro Ernesto 
Arte: David Bugueño 
Producción Ejecutiva: Colectivo Regional 
Sello Regional, Agosto 2016.

Cumbia Explosiva

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Sistema Beat Andino - Cumbia Explosiva (Loko Bonó Steppa Version)

Semilla Tropical es un proyecto musical que nace con la intención de hacer llegar a todos los públicos, y en especial a los más peques, sonidos tropicales, ancestrales, andinos y selváticos. 
Con el sello de Tierra Candela, y y con Kazike en Estado de Trance (Guacamayo Tropical) como instigador de este proyecto, reconocidos artistas de la escena tropical nacional e internacional, como Chancha Vía Circuito, El Remolón (Argentina), Caballito (España), ... que llevan años haciéndonos bailar, soñar y volar, reúnen sus temas en este compilado para toda la familia.

Guacamayo Tropical - Los Animalitos

For the 1st single on his long awaited second album, King Coya combines the past and the future in perfect symmetry.  Long time collaborator La Yegros jumps on vocal duties and King Coya creates a bass heavy track off the forthcoming album. Inspired by Kuduro sounds and morphing into a poetic downtempo Andean Dub, Algo is a taste of what’s to come on Tierra de King Coya, the artist's long awaited second album, which will be released in June.

King Coya - Algo (Feat La Yegros)

Stiko is back on Shango Records edits series and this time he's paying his respects to Malian wassoulou musician Oumou Sangare. He transforms the classic "An Ndiya" track (from her first album "Moussolou" back in 1991) into a darkish percussive broken Afro-Electronic heaven!

https://soundcloud.com/stikoantilope

SHNGEDITS013 Oumou Sangare-Ndiya (Stiko edit)FREE D/L

Buy/stream 'Otun' now: montoya.lnk.to/otun

While the internet’s universality means once-inaccessible traditional and indigenous styles of music across the planet can be appropriated, sampled, and commodified with ease; it also means they can be integrated and celebrated, reflecting humanity’s idiosyncrasies as well as our shared communality. Montoya, recently signed to ZZK Records, personifies the very best of this musical globalism.

Montoya, who grew up in Colombia and now resides in Italy, entered music as a classically trained violinist. He’s keen to stress his gratitude for this adolescent education, not only in how it exposed whole new worlds of music, but permitted him travel places and sample different cultures from a young age, including playing at such renowned orchestra theaters as Gran Teatro de La Habana in Cuba and the Musikverein in Vienna. This classical upbringing naturally informed his inclusive, and methodically exacting, attitude to songwriting and production.

The pan-international musicality of his Montoya project is rooted in the musical diaspora of his native Colombia. This diaspora is vast; indigenous folk music hailing from Amazonian and Andean tribes; the cosmopolitan synthesis of modern reggaeton and traditional salsa taking place in Bogota and Medellin, and the Afro-Caribbean stylings of Cumbia and Champeta. Fusing the multi-layered precision of his classical education, his innate curiosity for Latin and “world” music, and affection for melodic electronica; his discography is at once ambitious and comfortingly familiar, as desirous of a catchy harmony as conceptual melding of Latin folk and modern electronics.

So far, under the moniker Montoya, he’s produced the stirring 2015 album Iwa and 2016 Ep Lux, where you can detect him refining his cooking skills of the indigenous and the electronic. He’s also remixed the gifted Ecuadorian Nicola Cruz’s pleasantly plodding “Cumbia del Olvido”, adding another layer of melody with a soothing string arrangement. Moreover he’s played Sonar Bogota and Musicbox Lisbon, and various European venues, but his latest album Otun looks set to both break him properly on the continent, and produce his best work so far; a fiery and flavourful gourmet dish, with British expat producer Richard Blair providing refinement as a proverbial sous chef.

On Otun, the breadth of Montoya’s influences and tastes is at its most striking; the dulcet techno hum of “La Pastora” is perforated by sprightly flutes and percussion, while lead single “Solo Quiero” deploys a languid reggaeton pattern beneath Bogota rising star Pedrina’s distorted, wilting croon anticipating a euphoric synthesiser-lead climax. The title track, featuring a sultry guest vocal from Nidia Gongora, is a fierce and vigorous club anthem, amplified by hissing synth pads and sordid breakbeats. Even a more straightforwardly techno track like “Tatacoa” is stylized with intoxicating Indian vocal samples, and more traditional folk selections like “Orun” still use an inobtrusive bassline drone. Montoya’s palette is simultaneously expansive and curious, yet coherent, with a steadily melodic electronic through-line running through Otun’s duration.

Montoya absolutely sustains ZZK’s pedigree of platforming the most exciting and inventive electronic artists from Latin America, joining the storied legacy already built by the likes of Nicola Cruz, Chancha Via Circuito, and King Coya. Whether it’s through the intricate patterns of his synthesisers or the analogue beauty of his violin, what unifies his instrumentation is the candid expression of Montoya’s experiences, ideas and dreams: “I want to feed me of all these emotions, composing and putting into music all that I’ve lived.”

Otun

Montoya - Hey Avi!!

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Edmoon Records 2019, Quito - Ecuador.
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La Voz del Niño Dios - 2 bolitas de oro (Lascivio Bohemia remix)

Proud to present the Volume 1 of my "Smoothness + Dopeness" Mixtape series. It's a mixture full of Reggae, Dub, Hip-Hop and Dancehall music. Free download ;)

Mixtape

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DJ Rasfimillia - Smoothness + Dopeness Vol.1

Coming soon on Patate Records ! www.patate-records.com
Re-issue of the long time out of print 1st album by Robert Ffrench (Black Solidarity).
Recorded at Tuff Gong studio by Scientist (1985)

Robert Ffrench - Mother In Law

Special 2019 medley on the "Dub Land" riddim by Jil & Stuf, feat. Micah Shemaiah "In this Land", Dahvid Slur "Sound di Alarm", Meleku "Steam it up". Mixed by Jiladdis for addis records 2019.

"Dub Land Medley - 3 the hard way" MICAH SHEMAIAH - DAHVID SLUR - MELEKU

Here is a little session from a Saturday evening (2-23-19). First recording in the new sound room in my house. This one is an all OG 7" selection, it has a mix of the super rare to the more easy to find $10 tunes. To me its not about how much they cost, its about how and when you select and play the tunes, message music!! Give it a listen and enjoy!  Respect and blessings

Track list to come:             Trust its worth a listen!!

Kojak - The Way It Is: Roots Selection (2019)

Recorded live @ Le Poste à Galène - Marseille on 2019-02-16.
Part of the Noble Silence Tour with Mononome, Boogie Belgique, Blockhead & Guests organized by DLoaw & Co (https://www.facebook.com/DLoawCo/).
Photo by Pirlouiiiit (https://www.flickr.com/people/pirlouiiiit/)

Odissi @ Le Poste à Galène [2019-02-16]

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Lascivio Bohemia - Los Andes Retumban

Multicolour electronic music and visual art. 
Contact: eduretro@hotmail.com

La Voz del Niño Dios - 2 bolitas de oro (Lascivio Bohemia remix)

Lascivio Bohemia

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