SYSTEM takes a hike up the Andes for a mix from Peruvian trailblazer @qoqeqa, who digs into his afro-peruvian and andean roots for a deep and dubby selection in celebration of his recent album release on @denguedenguedengue newly minted @discoskebrada label.

Tracklist (for Soundcloud):
QOQEQA & Selvagia - Rayada
QOQEQA - Xi
QOQEQA - Omega
QOQEQA - Tutume
QOQEQA - Latido
QOQEQA - Kshanti
QOQEQA - 888
QOQEQA - CalaXucla
QOQEQA - Marinama
QOQEQA - UVa

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Hace mucho tiempo que quise sacar ese mixtape y ahora que salió el sol...es la hora!!

La inspiración de ese mix viene de un concepto sencillo: reimaginar unos temas que me encanta en un estilo cumbiero, más lento, más sabrosos ;) Mientras que estaba terminando mi EP Cumbias Imaquinarias (https://elbuho.bandcamp.com/album/cumbias-imaquinarias-ep) volví a enamorarme de la cumbia y su ritmo delicioso y pues asi nació el mixtape que mezcla todo desde Burial hasta Manu Chao y mucho más...

Espero que disfruten esta selección de música que ya conocen pero tal vez en un nuevo contexto o unos nuevos descubrimientos. Voy a agregar un playlist pronto pero por el momento escucha, disfruta y viaja!!! 🌞 ☀️ 🌞 

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I have been sitting on this mixtape for a little while now but decided, the sun is shining, it's time for some new music.

This mix is inspired by a simple concept: some tunes I love reimagined in a new context cumbiero. As I was finishing my last EP Cumbias Imaquinarias (https://elbuho.bandcamp.com/album/cumbias-imaquinarias-ep) I  went back to some Cumbia roots and decided to make this slightly mad mixtape of all sorts of music with Cumbia as the thread running through the mix. Everything from Manu Chao to Burial ;)

Hopefully you discover music you know and love in a new light and maybe even some new music ;) I will add a tracklist soon but for now, jump in, immerse yourself and enjoy the Cumbia sunshine!! 🌞 ☀️ 🌞

Mixtape: Cumbias Imaquinarias

Tracklist:

1. Docetism - Buczyna (El Búho Dem-Bowedit)
2. Tech Panda & Kenzani - Khoyo
3. Psapp – Hill of Our Home vs Actress - “Falling Rizlas”  (El Búho Dem-Bowedit)
4. Fred again & Brian Eno - Cmon  (El Búho Dem-Bowedit)
5. Ayra Starr - Rush  (El Búho Dem-Bowedit)
6. Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm x Baiuca - Morriña
7. K.S. Abhishek, Naani & Sukanya Chattopadhyay - The Naani Song
8. Yosi Horikawa - Fluid x Sidiki Diabaté & Djelimady Sissoko - Kayra
9. Zap Mama - Abadou
10. nthng - Saafe  (El Búho Dem-Bowedit)
11. Eduardo Castillo & Sabo - Casaradio
12. Red Axes - Hue (feat. Music Acadamy Students)
13. Daliwonga - Abo Mvelo (feat. Mellow & Sleazy & M.J)  (El Búho Dem-Bowedit)
14. Asake - Terminator
15. Ronnie & Barty - Chill Punjab
16. El Búho - Marti
17. Raf Saperra & Sukshinder Shinda - Snake Charmer (El Buho Edit)
18. Digital Afrika - Dark Matter x Camarón de la Isla - Nana del caballo grande
19. Âme - Rej x Commodo, Gantz & Kahn - So Familia 
20. Sababa 5 - Nasnusa (feat. Yurika Hanashima) (El Búho Dem-Bowedit)
21. La Jungla - La Cumbia del Desierto x Ana Tijoux - Río Abajo
22. Mismatched - Mehmaan (feat. Raitila Rajasthan) x Solitaria Andajina & Filarm-Nica Andajina - Mañana Me Voy (El Búho's it's the end of the mix edit)

Many times people have told me how much they just can't stand reggaeton. That omnipresent style build on the golden dem-bow rhythm that has gone on to conquer the world, Bad Bunny and beyond. 

But, beyond the mainstream (which goes for any music) there is something incredible about that simple rhythm. Following on from my last EP Tón Tón I thought I would see what happened if I tried to make a mixtape of "dem-bow" music which has absolutely nothing to do with dem-bow music. 

This mix is a juxtaposition of styles and sounds m(think Aphex Twin meets Ayra Starr meets Baiuca meets Âme...some dub techno, some Moroccan gnawa, some Ana Tijoux...)but all tied together by the thread of a dem-bow rhythm.

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El Búho - Tón Tón, A Dem-Bow Mixtape

13 years after their first release and irruption in the South American electronic scene, Barrio Lindo presents a new EP that is announced as the first chapter of a story that will continue.
After exploring a completely acoustic sound in their last release “Espuma de Mar” (2022), Barrio Lindo returns to renew their sound and propose a predominantly electronic journey, allied to the organic and psychedelic, in the personal moment of greatest fascination and curiosity for science and nature's mysteries.

ecdysis vol. I is a renewal in the sound of Barrio Lindo and a return to being inspired by the dancefloor. This EP has been produced between 2024-2025, time in which these songs have matured within the live sets he performed in the last year. 

Arpeggios, shifting bass lines, processed Andean strings and precise percussions are part of ecdysis' sonic palette, which finds inspiration in music from all over the world, from Caribbean sounds, through Arabic scales and Dabke sounds, to hip-hop beats.

This EP is in a way a painting of two geographically opposite latitudes that are part of Barrio Lindo in their daily life, tours and studies. The precise and sensitive poetry of Nicolás Dominguez Bedini from Turdera in the south of Buenos Aires, and the deep sweetness in the voice of Hou, singer from Miyazaki in the south of Japan; weave this infinite romance that Agustín Rivaldo has with his country of origin and with Japan, a country he visits frequently.
The extremes and everything in between are part of the Barrio Lindo universe in a constant change of skin.


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Barrio Lindo - Chatoyancy

💠 Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. 💠
― Arundhati Roy

A few weeks ago I had the honor & PLEASURE to initiate a new vision and project into the Berlin-o-sphere:  Djing the first Flow Dance | Women's Ecstatic Dance--in the epic Genezareth Church—hosted by a visionary krew of EPIC women that have been feeling a void, and are now filling it with tsunamis of SOUL JUICE and purpose.

💠

This was FAR beyond being a “nice” event hosted by women for women:  this was a declaration of female bodies unapologetically taking in their space, a portal of liberation (recognizing & not bypassing our privileges to dance and move so freely), and it was like we were all collectively drinking a cup of sweet nectar after being in the desert-of-modernity:  our hungry/thirsty bodies were SOAKING up this nourishment & empowerment, clearly revealing how NEEDED such spaces are for the female-bodied, and what a LACK there actually is.

💠

I've been pondering the subtle (and not so subtle) undertones of misogyny that penetrates most aspects of the dominant structures found in our world (that either objectifies or suppresses female bodies, not to mention the suppression of feminine/cyclical nature of all living-sentient-beings)....I've also encountered a LOT of unconscious patterns within the  “conscious-scene” as a female DJ over the years (territorialism competition, entitlement, extraction-based-lack-of-relationality), so this co-creation with these fabulous creatrixes was TRUE NECTAR for my sensitive-rebel-hearted-artist-soul...FULL SUPPORT!

💠 Their next dance is this Monday 26 May, and I highly recommend following these wild flowers:
 @lillyjstone, @jeanneclr & @sara.msso 

💠 Enjoy this proper Womb Tech Flow! 

💠 For the liberation of all beings:  from all systems of inner/outer oppressions.

💠 Love & Devotion, Alma

PS:  You can directly download this track, and just leave a comment for the Track ID:  super happy to share <3

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New Earth Nectar vol.12 | Womb Tech Set Live @ Women's Ecstatic | Flow Dance Berlin

A bit of a different track, I’m quite liking it though.

Falling Through Time

180 Degrees

Edicion del tema ceremonial " El abuelo" , en la voz de Fernando Milagros.

El Abuelo (voz F. Milagros )

One of the few live mixes that someone actually recorded and the first one for a while in an incredible party in Berlin. 

All original tracks, edits, remixes and what nots. Track names on request...

Twit-twoo!!

P.S. ignore the little harmony mistake at the beginning hehe. Shit happens ;)

Liveset - Shika Shika / Eck Echo, Berlin 05 Nov 2017

@pasaje-universo is a trio who combine both traditional South American and modern instruments with electronic music for their ebullient and introspective live performances. They create a dance-worthy sonic celebration to ground you in the present moment and awaken the senses.

Nômade by Pasaje Universo

Glen Velez - Citric Motion (Chancha Via Circuito Remix)

Connecting club culture to the wider world, on screen and irl through parties, film and video.

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