Matanza takes you to the sounds of the Andes and Shamans with this Mystical EP 
Apolinar is the story of an Indian Shaman who is initiated by a spirit of the sacred lake,
he passes through many mystical experiences and learns the real meaning of plants and ancient medication. 
   

Matanza - Wyno

Digital Shaman

SOLARIS: The Best Psytrance
Golden hour energy and mainstage anthems. A curated journey through the best sun-drenched Psytrance and Progressive beats. 🏜️🔊

Electric Bloom (Original Mix)

Until We Meet Again

AYA Records, imprint of the pioneering Latin American label, ZZK Records, transports listeners to Andean Amazonia with its first release, Respira, by Mateo Kingman. 

Kingman, 24, is a singer-songwriter of Ecuadorian Amazonian music that fuses traditional Latin American sounds with hip-hop, rock, and pop. Respira, his debut album, is an energy overload that sings of biodiversity, sketching natural landscapes of magic and water colors. It is infused with sounds guiding the listener from the jungle and to high mountains, between the tangle of trees and the meandering sound of the wind on the moors. 

Kingman's childhood was spent in Macas, a small town in the Amazon, where he was exposed to the cultural richness of the Shuar community and Amazonian mythologies. There his feet grew calloused on mountain grass, there he dove in the Amazonian rivers searching for ancient sounds of water devils. He walked narrow, muddy roads, hearing the cries of the wild, of the Amazonian nymphs, of the dense green. In this environment, Kingman began experimenting with the guitar, drums, and traditional instruments. He began exploring the universal nature of music, which ties the finite and small human condition, full of passions hard to understand, with the cosmic, the chaotic, and the infinite. 

After a brief interlude pursuing semi-professional sports (100 meter hurdles), Kingman moved to Quito in 2012 and launched his music career. Just a few short years later, he finds himself at the forefront of the Latin American music scene emerging out of Ecuador, both as a soloist and a member of the band EVHA. 

Respira exemplifies this sound, fusing electronic with organic and acoustic in order to create a musical oxymoron: chaotic harmony. Inspired by artists such as Simón Díaz, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Violeta Parra, Juaneco y Su Combo, Control Machete, Bomba Estereo, Sidestepper and Café Tacvba, the album combines samples and synthesizers, with organic sounds he records himself in rivers, forests, and mountains. Kingman's lyrics connect the concrete jungle with the past of four million years of human life historically tied to the natural world. His soundscapes are full of the spiritual energy of all that is good, of what makes us dance to scare away the demons. His fiery voice constantly stabs at the melodies, spilling out the verses with rap and timbres of traditional songs. 

With the swagger of Calle 13 and the groove of Manu Chao, Mateo Kingman is ready to show you his world. Respira is out on August 12 on AYA Records, and will be available everywhere.

Respira

Fuerza de Pantera

There’s something brewing in the Ecuadorian underground.  In 2015 ZZK Records introduced the world to the sensorial sound of Nicola Cruz, shortly after in 2016, Mateo Kingman.  This year has seen numerous projects emerging from Ecuador’s effervescent and vibrant scene, none more exciting than EVHA.   
 
It isn’t the past, it’s now, and it’s magical. El Viejo Hombre de los Andes, EVHA (The Old Man of the Andes), is a band formed by four creators who put heart and soul into everything they do: combining ritual dance rhythms, faraway plateau choirs and sacred songs with bold contemporary beats.
 
Recovering the ancestral protests of traditional Ecuadorian music (“Uiuí”), urgent calls for nature's protection (“Todo su cuerpo brilla”), the repetitive striking of the hoe in the field and the endless green of the forest. But also combining textures of laughter, deep rivers and majestical lakes, Ecuador’s magic captured in sound.  
 
We find refreshing and delicate electronic glitches transitioning into hip hop-influenced voices from mountain top ceremonies among fast looped marimba arpeggios, contrasting beats and touches of ambient.  This ethno-electronic experiment is full of flavors from various regions; sanjuanito, pasillo and bomba sample flirtations with ethereal beats. 
 
The record El Viejo Hombre de los Andes has a clear connecting thread, absorbing forms and colors from native Ecuadorian music and strengthening them into a tight conceptual construction with captivating and current sounds.

EVHA - Todo Su Cuerpo Brilla

Incluido en el compilado ALHARACOS de Renacer Records.

No Puedo Más

As Dat Garcia prepares for her 1st USA tour coming up this summer, the 2nd remix from her Maleducada Remixes Vol. 2 drops on April 13th by Wil Dog from Ozomatli. Formed in 1995, Ozomatli are the globally renowned and pioneering band from Los Angeles that combine Latin grooves with hip-hop and rock.  Wil Dog provides a remix that combines the bounce of Miami bass with a darker edge that hints at Detroit's ghettotech scene, replete with rumbling jungle drums. A midway refrain sees the track descend into an irresistible electro dancehall groove to complete the remix.

Dat Garcia - Anfibio (Wil-Dog Remix)

Tejidos

Astro

Lúmina

Mixtape con canciones y melodías latinoamericanas, inspiradas en la Madre Tierra, las tradiciones de los pueblos indígenas y su lucha por la defensa del Agua.

"Mi fuerza viene desde adentro del alma, del corazón, porque siento mucha pena que nos destruyan nuestras lagunas los internacionales.

Antes le tenía miedo a la policía, miedo a todo, pero desde que mataron a mi hijo perdí el miedo. 

No le tengo miedo a nada, si se trataría de morir, moriría, pero en la defensa del agua"

Mixtape 002 - Agua Sagrada

La Amazonía Andina refresca su identidad musical a través de los sonidos del creador ecuatoriano de 24 años. En 2016 presentó su álbum debut ‘Respira’ bajo el ala de AYA Records, el nuevo sello hermano de los pioneros ZZK Records. El álbum de Kingman es una sobrecarga de energía que canta la diversidad y dibuja paisajes naturales de magia y colores del agua. Las letras y los sonidos nos conducen en la compleja relación entre selva tropical y altas montañas, entre la maraña de los árboles y el sinuoso sonido del viento delos páramos.

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Kingman, 24, is a singer-songwriter of Ecuadorian Amazonian music that fuses traditional Latin American sounds with hip-hop, rock, and pop. Respira, his debut album, is an energy overload that sings of biodiversity, sketching natural landscapes of magic and water colors. It is infused with sounds guiding the listener from the jungle and to high mountains, between the tangle of trees and the meandering sound of the wind on the moors.

Label: AYA RECORDS
Booking: CHARCO
Management: maki_oficial@me.com

Lúmina

Mateo Kingman

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