Riobamba – Mixtapes

Riobamba – Tracks

RIOBAMBA's rowdy, deeply researched live sets reflect back nightlife’s power as a site of joy and resistance, amplifying connective tissues between  YouTube clips, bodega soundtracks, and noise hyperreality, "suped up with a twisted, industrial gnarl" (Complex). The Fader has called her production work “a radically self-expressive piece of futurism that stands against a single, boxed-in definition of what Latinx club music can be."

RIOBAMBA is a member of techno-feminist booking agency DISCWOMAN’s roster, and is founder of APOCALIPSIS, a record label celebrating works by those ni de aquí/ni de allá.  

Banshee – ?!
Xenia Rubinos – Who Shot Ya?
Ayesha – Apsara Dub
Loris – Sin Señal
Minas ft. NTFL – Technotron Sin Covid
Amor Satyr – Quality Soundz
Joe Cotch – Sagrado
OCTUBRXLIBRV – 0212 (Florentino Remix)

MAJIA MIXFILES 02_Riobamba

Clearing out the cobwebs to make room for new year, new blessings 🔥♻️ Big death, rebirth alchemy love, como siempre 🫶❤️ Wishing you a 2023 and beyond of open roads!

Artwork by @gabriela__riveros
Mastering by @imaabs
Released on @apocalipsistoday
Original version was released previously on @airtexture

Riobamba - Sácalo

Dembow with quena (huaynoton), the first appearance of original Riobamba edits and selections reaching as far as hip hop from the island of San Andrés sampling Peruvian Youtube star Wendy Sulca. The mixtape is dedicated movement, displacement and my family ambateña, gente of the diaspora andino.

Originally premiered on Sounds and Colours in Dec. 2013
http://www.soundsandcolours.com/articles/colombia/exclusive-download-dj-riobambas-altiplano-urbano-mixtape/

Tracklist:

Dj Peligro - Bombea Y Todo Me Da Vueltas (Riobamba edit)
Turmanye - Huayno Mote
Latin Fresh – Bata Bata (Ricky Dj electrocumbiaton edit)
T&T Tiempo & Tendencias (Los Reyes de Huaynoton) – Ritmo Peruano
T&T Tiempo & Tendencias – La Mas Juergera (Riobamba edit)
DJ Brayan – Huaynoton Remix
Los Brillantes – Chola Cuencana (DJ Isaias Remix)
Wendy Sulca con S.A. Finest – Cerveza, Cerveza (Remix)
Familia Rodriguez – Poco a Poco
??? - ???

ALTIPLANO URBANO

Originally released via @remezcla x Apple Music:
http://remezcla.com/releases/riobamba-track-ragga-flow-icy-lake-edit/

Gracias a los panas de @svntvmverte
Masterizado by @wheez-ie

Ragga Flow x Icy Lake (Riobamba Edit)

channeling rage for, remembrance of, love toward victims of police brutality & state-sanctioned violence, in the U.S. y destructive legacies this country has left & continues to leave elsewhere– ya basta, ya basta, ya basta. a las víctimas– nunca serán olvidados.

VIA MIXPAK–
http://www.mixpakrecords.com/blog/2016/02/mixpak-fm-riobamba/

Mixpak FM 093 is brought to you by Brooklyn-based DJ & producer, Riobamba. Inspired by her Ecuadorian-Lithuanian heritage, her sets and productions draw from a hybridized global sound, with a strong Latin leaning. As promoter of one of Boston’s leading underground parties, Pico Picante, resident at Remezcla’s NY party Perreo, and an affiliate of Dutty Artz, she is a strong representative for transnational bass on the East Coast.

Her Mixpak FM is a showcase of the global underground, featuring many kindred club spirits operating in the same zone: False Witness, Santa Muerte and Kala as well as offerings from NON, Baltimore artist Abdu Ali, and Chile’s Tomas Urquieta.

MORO – SAN BENITO STATUS…KILLED IN ACTION
Chino Amobi – WHITE MÆTAL (plus_c signal drop)
1127 – It Never Drops
Marginal Men – Wen x Mano DJ
Abdu Ali – Motivation
False Witness – Tokyo Pikante
Kala – Waronus
Tomás Urquieta – Neglect (She’s Drunk Remix)
Ase Manual + KU$HCANNXN – Coincidence Part 1 (Remix)
Santa Muerte & Kala – TAK
Kala – Weh
A.MA.SSA – S∑GU®∆ ø S∆Cø∂∑
Fonobisa – 10:07 (ℌEXOℜℭℑSMOS’ c̬᷂̔o̬̫᷆r̬͐ͅr̫̬̞ù̬̘p̬̫̚t̜̬̤o͚̬̯ Remix) x Riobamba Respira Intro
Marginal Men – Footworkzzzz ft. Omulu
¥€$Ø – No Me La Flipo
DJ NJ DRONE – Beat Da Hurt
HAITI GROUND ZERO – Let There Be Light (Electrovaudou Traxman Remix)

Mixpak FM 093: Riobamba

Exclusive Premiere via The Fader
http://www.thefader.com/2016/10/12/riobamba-apocalipsis-hecho-hechizo

"Brooklyn-based Ecuadorian-Lithuanian DJ Riobamba has launched a new, multi-faceted record label called APOCALIPSIS to highlight artists from Latin America and its diaspora. As she told The FADER, it will provide 'urbano storytelling for a ni aquí/ni allá [neither from here/nor there] creation of place.' The agency aims to do everything in its power (A&R, marketing, event production) to grow visibility for a wealth of Latin American narratives.

As a first taste of what's to come, Riobamba is sharing "Hecho/Hechizo," a bootleg she's made to tease a forthcoming EP from Ecuadorian producer amaF alaM (@z-e-w) on the label. It's one that epitomizes APOCALIPSIS's mission statement to the letter: a radically self-expressive piece of futurism that stands against a single, boxed-in definition of what Latinx club music can be.

''Hecho/Hechizo' is a translation of my love for noise, inherited folklore, and brujería,' Riobamba told The FADER over email. 'Earthquake field recordings, deconstructed DJ Playero reggaetón heritage samples via Kelman Duran, and amaF alaM's original collide for a retelling of a warrior call from his Quinchuqui indigenous community.'

amaF alaM's Anta EP will be out via APOCALIPSIS in late November. Until then, do yourself a kindness and listen to Riobamba's genre-transcending FADER Mix here."

http://apocalipsis.today/
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http://apocalipsis.today/

Cover Art: Mohamed Suliman (moesuliman.com)
Photo: Guarionex Rodriguez Jr. (http://guarionexjr.com/)
Mastering: Wheez-ie (https://soundcloud.com/wheez-ie)

RIOBAMBA – Hecho/Hechizo [APOC001]

Bootleg diaries via @kalaseven & @riobamba_dj

Free download: https://kalaseven.bandcamp.com/track/tro-n

Kala's "L.O.T.O." EP drops February 28th – preorders available at Bandcamp
https://kalaseven.bandcamp.com/album/l-o-t-o

Kala & RIOBAMBA – Trón

Riobamba & @falsewitness
Originally premiered via Vice Colombia (2015)
https://thump.vice.com/es_co/article/ezw4ym/riobamba-y-false-witness-se-unen-para-el-track-bin-danza

"Riobamba and False Witness’ “Bin Danza” builds out a fast-cutting bubbling track that draws on Baile Funk, Dembow, and kuduro influences. Layering MC Bin Laden’s “O Faraó Ta De,” DJ-Krazy’s “Danza Africana,” and El Mayor Clasico’s “Versace,” “Bin Danza” is their take on a lo-fi battle track. Awash in sirens and rewinds, ‘Bin Danza’ finds it home across geographies."

Bin Danza (Riobamba & False Witness Edit)

"Riobamba created "Grito" as a response to her year spent in Bogotá, Colombia, and as a loud, clear call for autonomy and self-determination in the global digital music culture.

The mixtape opens with an original sound piece reworking Youtube news clips and field recordings from the campesino strikes that shut down Bogotá for weeks in 2013 as an outcry against multinational interference. "Grito" is a frantic trip through acid dembow, crashing baile funk, and screwed ruidosón rave undercurrents. The selections challenge the listener to reconsider their expectations for Latinx dance music, and pay homage to unhushed howls of decolonized club culture."

Tracklist:

Riobamba - Grito
Super Don Miguelo - Quiero Sudar (Rizzla Vogue Edit)
???? - ????
Joey LaBeija - Pretty Hoe (ft. Ms. Porsh)
DJ Marfox & DJ Nervoso - A Propria
False Witness - The Dominican Walk (Nitido Y Cristian)
Imaabs - Voy
Joswa in the House - Ella Quiere Cualto
Leo Justi - Treinamento do Bumbum (DJ Dede Mandrak/Leo Justi Remix)
Chimbala vs Maurice - Bailacid (FW Bootleg)
The Black Jesus - Kill the Messenger (Lao's Delta Remix)
Rizzla - Fucking Facist
Princess Nokia - Seraphims (Owwwls' Purple Lemonade Edit)
Amalucan - Orihuela M.S.S. (Yelram Selectah Rmx)
Isa GT - Alerta (Paul Marmota Remix)

Grito Mix

Riobamba – Grito

New York's Riobamba speeds through a high-octane selection of reggaetón and global club sounds.

For more information and tracklist head here: http://www.factmag.com/2018/01/16/riobamba-fact-mix-reggaeton/

FACT Mixes

FACT mix 635 - Riobamba (Jan '18)

@riobamba_dj and @uprootandy celebrate their new Red Bull Radio show Bien Buena with a Daddy Yankee remix. 

Read more at Remezcla.com: http://remezcla.com/releases/music/riobamba-uproot-andy-baby-yankee-track-premiere/

Bien Buena Radio

Uproot Andy x Riobamba - Baby Yankee

RIOBAMBA for Chromat AW19 Runway Soundtrack
https://chromat.co/

TRACKLIST//
Nitty Scott – Coquí Song
DJ NA – Pa Que Tomes El Control
DJ Florentino – El Sonido
Ivy Queen – Guillaera
Glou – Outro
Lisa M – Fuego
Ms Nina x La Favi – Acelera
Arkedabar – Chill Chica
King Reyna – No Te Pase
Cardi B – Lit Thot (Kelman Duran Dembow Edit) x Pan Daijing – Act of The Empress  皇后之作
Lechuga Zafiro – Agua y Puerta x Aja Monet – My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
Elysia Crampton – Dummy Track
Kali Mutsa – La Telenovela (Sudanim Remix)
Kali Mutsa – El Cuerpo (IMAABS Remix)
IMAABS – Disolución
Funeral – Asfixia
Maluca – El Tigeraso (Gant-Man Remix)
SHYGIRL – Rude

Mastered by Leroy Bella/Sines.

Chromat AW19 Runway Soundtrack

On September 20th, Brooklyn-based record label APOCALIPSIS released 'Sin Fronteras,' a 36-track benefit compilation with 100% proceeds going to immigrant defense organizations RAICES, Immigrant Defense Project, and Detention Watch Network. Sin Fronteras unapologetically affirms the rights and dignity of immigrant communities, and stands in solidarity with efforts to abolish an oppressive legal and immigration system.

Released exclusively through APOCALIPSIS’ Bandcamp page, Sin Fronteras features contributions by artists across club music undergrounds, spanning geographies of Houston, New York City, Miami, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and beyond. The compilation presents heart-centered storytelling unconfined by genre, merging dancehall en español, percussion-driven club tools, noise-inflected dembow, experimental pop, and disruptive soundscapes across an array of atmospheric dancefloor mutations.

APOCALIPSIS amplifies the stories of artists ni de aquí, ni de allá (neither from here, nor there), doing everything in its power to redistribute equity in the music industry.

Riobamba - Hacia Tu ft. Helado Negro

@riobamba_dj - "Muerte" from 'Criatura' EP

Artwork by Brian Herrera (@attitudeseven).
Mastering by Leroy Bella.

On October 24th, APOCALIPSIS will release 'Criatura,' the debut EP from the label’s founder, Brooklyn-based, Ecuadorian-Lithuanian artist Riobamba. The title namesake references Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ “Women Who Run With The Wolves,” calling in intuitive storytelling traditions of “ritual death, initiation, and rebirth” as necessities for revolution.

'Criatura' is a 3-track translation of APOCALIPSIS’ manifesto, embracing death/life/death cycles set to a soundtrack that is confrontational and disruptive by design– merging urgent siren calls, warped dembow/bubbling loops, and transmuted vocal samples from Riobamba.

'Criatura' is spell-casting for transformation, calling in self-determined rituals, respectful explorations of ancestral knowledge, and a welcoming of dualities of rage & resistance and tenderness & patience to exist alongside each other as necessary tools for resistance.

Instead of a record release party, APOCALIPSIS is presenting a protest in coordination with Melting Point on October 24th from 2-6 PM in front of US Immigrant & Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters located at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan. Melting Point organizes parties to raise money for Al Otro Lado, a non-profit providing free legal representation for migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees at the border.

Riobamba - Muerte

YouTube x Riobamba - Barrios de Quito se suman al cacerolazo por la paz
Ziúr - ATØ
Moesha 13 - Invisible Resistance
SINES - Renegado
quest?onmarc - Uprising
Cuyo - Tierraton (Desert Mix)
KELMAN DURAN - E II
Santa Muerte & TenTwentySeven - Ritmo De Selva
Skin On Skin - Multiply (LUNY Re-Drum)
Manuka Honey x Nara - Siren Spell
Ase Manual - Strobe
????? - ?????

The Face | Mix 013 | Riobamba

Visions Remixed

Waiting For Me (Riobamba Remix)

Edit released via Chroma's Source of Nurture Compilation.
Artwork by Aya Brown.

Support/Donate👇
https://chromanewyork.bandcamp.com/album/source-of-nurture

"Source of Nurture is a music fundraising initiative curated and presented by Chroma bringing together women of color artists to amplify each other and bring some much needed support to the organizations, folks and funds doing the work to stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, Undocumented and Immigrant communities, and Essential Workers.

100% of the proceeds from this mixtape will go directly to Equality for Flatbush, Undocu Workers Fund, The Movement for Black Lives Fund, and Black Trans Femmes in the Arts."

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Rompe APOCALIPSIS Edit [Chroma x Source of Nurture Compilation]

Riobamba is an Ecuadorian-Lithuanian producer, DJ and cultural activist based in Brooklyn. She’s on the Discwoman roster, and is known for her rowdy and deeply researched live sets, reflecting back nightlife’s power as a site of joy and resistance. 

Her own words on the mix:

“It's election week here in the United States, and this recording is an authentic reflection of where I'm at in holding space for both rage and hope. Channelling dreams of the death of the old system, and a rebirth into a foundation that truly serves and uplifts every one of us.”

AIAIAI Mix 021 - RIOBAMBA

artist / aquí / allá
founder of @apocalipsistoday
booking: christine@discwoman.com
contact: hi@riobamba-dj.net

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