Insurgentes x Radio Raheem

Resistencia — Preservación — Cuidado colectivo

Dos mixes para intentar sanar esta ansiedad. Dos mixes para estimular y acompañar las protestas.

Donaciones a Temblores.ong para que puedas seguir documentando las violaciones de derechos humanos por parte del estado colombiano: https://vaki.co/es/vaki/rcJ8xVA2yecBcPKKabkW

María Mestiza at Radio Raheem 15 | 05 | 21

Verraco at Radio Raheem 15 | 05 | 21

Buy__ https://tratratrax.bandcamp.com/album/noche-de-rosas

TraTraTrax is back with five tracks of filthy intense romanticism. Piloting the ship now is the Colombian-Swiss Luca Durán, head of Akoya Circles label and pana who previously released as Look Like via Clone Royal Oak or Mistress Recordings. 'Noche de Rosas' is Luca's debut on the label, who, from the diaspora, reconnects with Colombian popular and sonic iconography, but this time, taking it into territories of maximum agitation.

In the tracks you will find a bunch of beautiful roses, roses that also cut you, like the collabs in this pack. Parco Palaz joins in featuring for 'Metal Parce', then queen BADSISTA detonates the chaos by remixing them and finally the Hyperdub mainstain, Ikonika, redefines 'Noche of Rosas'. 100% kalidad, pa.
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released July 23, 2021

Cat. number_ ​TRA004
Mastering_ Seph
Artwork_ Sonja Camara
All NRG programmed by Luca Durán, Parco Palaz, Badsista, Ikonika between Europe & Sur América, 2021 | www.insurgentes.co

Luca Durán — Noche de Rosas — TRA004 (Ikonika + Badsista remix)

Get it__ https://insurgentes-co.bandcamp.com/album/grial-remixes

One year after the release of Verraco’s debut album the reinterpretations descend to Insurgentes. For the first time, establishing a bridge between South America and Europe, the Colombian imprint presents rich and diverse IDM, Breaks, and electronica from the artists affiliated to Mamba Negra, Ilian Tape, Planet Mu, and Enklav.
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releases September 24, 2021

All nrg re—programmed by Mari Herzer, Chevel, Stenny and Konx-om-Pax in Sur América and Europe, 2020 — 2021 | www.insurgentes.co

Mastering__ David Uribe
Artwork__ Pedro Ajo
3D__ Elvin Van Dalen

Imaginando otros mundos posibles desde el país del NO futuro.

Get into The Mestizo-Futurist Manifesto here__ www.insurgentes.co/manifesto-en.html

Verraco — Grial RMX — INS 12 (Stenny + Chevel + Konx-om-Pax + Mari Herzer)

Buy__ https://tratratrax.bandcamp.com/album/rompediscoteka

Papi Nick León is back to perreo duties with three killer cuts that honour the genre nostalgia and recall those first sonic encounters on the radio when we were kids. Infectious rhythmic programming makes you shake your ass as the world moves towards the end. Bachata riffs á la Romeo Santos penetrate you, while the voices of some of our childhood idols bark loud and clear: andamos con el combo de los rompediscoteka.

But the bellaqueo continues: three other remixes diversify the flow. Henzo delivers a halftime hyperbass banger. King Kelman Duran takes the trip into the oneiric realm with his indelible atmospheric reggaetón. Finally, Maral, shoots a classy downtempo full of roña, rawness and density that should never be missed.
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released October 1, 2021

Cat. number_ ​TRA005
Mastering_ Seph
Artwork_ Colin Dörffler
Programmed by Nick León, Henzo, Kelman Duran, Maral between USA, UK & Sur América, 2021 | www.insurgentes.co

@nickleon

Nick León — Rompediscoteka — TRA005 (Henzo + Kelman Duran + Maral)

Buy__ https://tratratrax.bandcamp.com/album/sentimientos-encontrados

Cat. number_ ​TRA006
Release date_ | Nov 5 | 2021
Mastering_ Seph
Artwork_ Pedro Ajo
All nrg programmed by Nicola Cruz, Isabella Lovestory and Ehua between Quito, Montreal and London. Additional keys on 'O sea, sí te quiero' by Juan Diego Illescas. | www.insurgentes.co


We are proud to present the last cañonazo of the year. Descending from the mountains to the Caribbean we found a guaca full of hip-breaking experimental dembow. ‘Sentimientos Encontrados’ marks another edge in the vast and stimulant sonic exploration of Nicola Cruz. The Ecuadorian artist ornamented 4 tracks with a wide rhythmic spectrum where sound currents from two continents are masterfully fused: South American percussions, 303 lines, and his modular system are at the service of futuristic perreo but also for the banger 'Se pone caliente', a sort of bastard son between dubstep and techno conceived in the Quito heights. 

Rising Honduran reggaeton star Isabella Lovestory hops on 'O sea, sí te quiero' for a killer featuring. "Hard and fast, as a thunder", she sentences. Her heart of ice exalts the collective scream where the woman, as it usually happens in the genre and as it should be in any field, are the leading subjects/characters. Finally, the journey closes with a brilliant and classy reinterpretation of ‘Sin retorno' from Ehua. The Nervous Horizon affiliated artist delivers a percussively intense and highly functional version that plunges you into a mental and bodily march. As one of the songs dictates in a processed voice, this is music to make the dance floor get caliente.

(In)-Pure mixed feelings.

@nicolacruz

Nicola Cruz — Sentimientos Encontrados — TRA006 (Isabella Lovestory + Ehua remix)

Buy__ https://insurgentes-co.bandcamp.com/album/el-david-muerte

Mastering__ Imaabs
Artwork__ Julián Guzmán 
Painting__ Matías Solar
Concept__ Tomás Urquieta | Division84

All nrg programmed by Tomás Urquieta between Santiago de Chile y la CDMX, 2020 — 2021 | www.insurgentes.co 

Tomás Urquieta is back home. Today, the New York-based Chilean producer returns to Insurgentes to present: 'El David Muerte', his second studio album. This time, eight cuts are exploring meaninglessness moments, cigarette haze and night, pure serial mistakes. This full-length is a eulogy to failed acts. Reflections and loops sometimes delirious, in a sort of threshold of affective links and connections towards all the no-mind states which emerge daily, anonymous, as a small-time exercise that blur with the same speed in which one wanders down the street. This is a journey into elusive and distracted thoughts, both yours and Tomás'ones. They are memories of past and future loves, political ideas that get lost among the horrible advertising, in a graffiti or at the moment you look down to send a useless text message.

Tomás indelible sound print, where nostalgia collides with incisive percussion and soaring sound design, are creative acts that culminate as anonymous milestones of this wandering. Perhaps, more than an album, this release is a set of fragments, frugal chronicles, small stories that enhance and consolidate Tomás Urquieta´s coherence and consistency in recent years.

Tomás Urquieta — Poshlost — INS 13

Some of you have asked us when the Medallo Perreo Militia edit of 'Dónde están las gatas' was going to be released. Well, here it is, as a free download to thank you all for the support you gave us in 2021. 

We are already looking forward to those 2022 totes. 
__La buena 
____<3 
_____agradecidos con el DY + NJ

Medallo Perreo Militia — Las Gatas (DY+NJ Tribute VIP Mix) — TRA000

Buy__ https://tratratrax.bandcamp.com/album/fervor

Cat. number_ ​TRA00
Release date_ | Mar 11 | 2022
Mastering__ Seph
Artwork__ Paula de Álvaro

New fresh edgy dembow from the middle of the earth. We stayed in Ecuador for a new collaboration of exciting artists who have been pumping out belter after belter on the black market of South American underground perreo. PVSSY & Entrañas met halfway, between Guayaquil and Quito, to distill 3 intense, sharp-cut and stomping trax that capture the maximum fervor for industrial reggaeton and dramatic dancehall.

But the package also brings our usual reinterpretations. ‘Manía’ is remixed by the South African Menzi, who injects the flow that consecrated him on Hakuna Kulala. This time a slow burner with high cinematic sound design builds up a flawless nrg for the warm up momentum. Finally, the amphibious, el yurugua Lechuga Zafiro, deconstructs, or to be more precise, destroys ‘Acertijo’ with a painful–heartbroken dronish version that exalts our mission as a label and that acknowledges the state of mind of the latinx raver: perreando, pero también llorando en el club.

All NRG programmed by PVSSY, Entrañas, Lechuga Zafiro, Menzi between Sur América & Sur África, 2021 – 2022 | www.insurgentes.co

PVSSY & Entrañas — Fervor — TRA007 (Lechuga Zafiro + Menzi remix)

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https://denguedenguedengue.bandcamp.com/album/pliegues-4

We are proud to present the stellar debut and collab between the renowned Peruvian duo Dengue Dengue Dengue and Argentinian Prisma. ‘Pliegues' creates a hypnotic journey and infectious cadences that invites you to close your eyes while your hips move to the sound of colliding polyrhythms and powerful FM synth lines.

But there is also room for the oneiric realm on this EP. With the track 'Grietas' this new trio opens a portal to steep and melodramatic terrains. Meanwhile, the remix of ‘Brechas’ from our friend empanadas aka DJ Python unleashes his sincere trademark of atmospheric and sentimental dembow. Finally, el paisa Verraco makes his label debut reshaping the lead track with a bombastic, deconstructed, bipolar 'summer' banger full of edgy sound design.
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released May 27, 2022

All NRG programmed by Dengue Dengue Dengue, Prisma, DJ Python, Verraco between Berlin, New York & Medallo 2021 – 2022 | www.insurgentes.co

Cat. number_ ​TRA008
Mastering_ Seph
Artwork_ Sonja Camara

@denguedenguedengue

DNGDNGDNG & Prisma — Pliegues — TRA008 (DJ Python + Verraco remix)

buy__ 
https://nicknoexit.bandcamp.com/album/xtasis

It's hot, summer is here, latin tribal techno is as well, and papi Nick León knows it. 'Xtasis' is the title of the EP and it's also the banger that contains impure euphoria, one that is detonated in complicity with the raptor house maestro, Venezuela's finest, DJ Babatr. Meanwhile, 'Grito' is a scandal. It's the call that demands for a rhythm that was looked down upon, but now is his time and this rhythm is driven into the future. The collision of guaracha with edgy sound design is here to stay by the hand of the Miami-based producer.

And well, as if that wasn't enough, the Hessle Audio Mainstay, Pearson Sound, arrives to deliver even more Xtasis, to enhance a track that has been creating a burst of joy at festivals and dance-floors around the world, with the astuteness, precision and elegance that only David can do. Finally, NY virtuoso Doctor Jeep reinterprets 'Grito' with a hyper-active, sizzling and delicious approach that blends perreo and d&b with his sharp trademark. blablabla whatever… XTC para todxs, XTC for all.

releases July 29, 2022

All NRG programmed by Nick León, DJ Babatr, Pearson Sound & Doctor Jeep between Miami, Caracas, NY, London 2021 – 2022

Mastering__ Seph + Matt Coltton on Pearson Sound remix
Artwork__ Shinzo Noda

Nick León — Xtasis — TRA009 (DJ Babatr + Pearson Sound + Doctor Jeep remix)

Get it here__ https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/album/burundanger

Let us introduce you to el Burundanger. Let us immerse in impure Latin American brutality by the hand and machines of el quiteño Quixosis. This penetrating EP is an exercise that explores the ritualistic tone of a total loss of the ego, a harsh reaction, and a torrent of emotions that end up flowing into fury, chaos, and trance on a collective level. The name of the EP refers to ‘Burundanga’, which is extracted from the Borrachero, a tree that absorbs dark energy and neutralises it. This seed is used in shamanic rituals in the Andean region and as a drug to rob people leaving them in a half-awake state.

But these raw, saturated excursions on the Dave Smith Tempest are also an ode to destruction and its full creative power. The release comes accompanied with remixes by Bristol prodigy duo Cando, French sound visionary Flore, and the king of wormhole techno, Mike Parker - all of whom further disintegrate the original versions to make way for the genesis of new burundanga-laden sonic sedatives.

releases September 30, 2022

All NRG programmed by Quixosis, Mike Parker, Cando & Flore between Quito, Buffalo, Bristol & Lyon 2021 – 2022
Mastering__ Seph
Artwork__ pktwidz

Quixosis — Burundanger — TRA011 (Mike Parker + Cando + Flore remix)

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https://tratratrax.com/album/no-pare-sigue-sigue

"no pare, sigue sigue". Don't stop, go on and on and on, cause there is no end or beginning. There is no single tag that covers what we are doing. And don't worry, there is no need to understand it either. We present our first compilation, 16 cuts that don't stop, they just go. Slow, hard, soft, and fast in multiple rhythms, cadences and tempos. 16 bullets that seem like a lot but are just a glance, our glance, of the wide spectrum of sounds that can be found in our territory.

Here we bring together the heavyweights of the region, friends and fam + Latin diaspora. We bring together Cumbia, Industrial Dembow, Tribal Techno, Raptor House, Breaks, Funk Mandelão, and Weightless Hardgrooves with debutés by the likes of Safety Trance, Lila Tirando a Violeta, Loris, Mari Herzer and Tomás Urquieta. As we said in Colombia, this is a 'popurrí', everything and nothing, just sudaca bangers loaded with flavour and resentment, but above all, resentment, because we don't want our wounds to heal.

We keep moving__
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releases November 18, 2022

All NRG programmed by latinxs + diáspora sudaca 2021 – 2022

Artwork__ Weirdcore
Mastering__ Seph

V/A — no pare, sigue sigue — TRA010

Loris____TraTraTrax x Radio Raheem Takeover

PVSSY____TraTraTrax x Radio Raheem Takeover

Entrañas____TraTraTrax x Radio Raheem Takeover

download__ https://tratratrax.com/album/32-balas

Balas means bullets. They are 32. They come directly from the Chilean prodigy to you. Tomás Urquieta, the artist now based in NY, after his EPs via Insurgentes, now makes his proper debut in TraTraTrax. We enter into the new year with two pounding, thick and sharp cuts, now a trademark of Tomi's design. Club-ready and deconstructed club (also ready) certified bangs.

This time, the remixes are a little over the top: Rhyw delivers a version that dribbles and wiggles into enriched ballistic percussions. re:ni distils “vaya pues" with ace Grime compatible Breakbeat. Finally, we couldn't wait any longer to bring to the label the summa cum laude speed dembow from Siu Mata and Amor Satyr.
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releases February 17, 2023

All NRG programmed by Tomás Urquieta, re:ni, Rhyw and Siu Mata & Amor Satyr between NYC, Berlin, London and Paris 2021 – 2022

Mastering__ Seph
Artwork__ Otis Verhoeve

Tomás Urquieta — 32 Balas — TRA012 (Rhyw + re:ni + Siu Mata & Amor Satyr remix)

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https://doctorjeep.bandcamp.com/album/push-the-body

Push The Body sees Doctor Jeep continuing to explore his Latin roots with three tracks influenced by his Brazilian heritage. Title track "Push The Body" twists a baile funk vocal into a mechanized dubstep-turn-techno hybrid with a surprise rhythm switch halfway through to keep dancers on their toes, while the rolling drums and undulating bassline of "Rolla Dex" harkens back to Jeep's childhood listening to Samba. Finally, "Reso Danz" slows the tempo down for a warehouse-ready dembow mutation featuring his signature sound design.

In the meantime, Hodge polishes a killer-nostalgic, swinging Bristolian Techno Dembow version of “Reso Danz”. Then a friend de la casa, Aquarian, lands on the label to basically give birth to a new genre: el Psy Le Funk! Finally, master Binga destroys everything, as per usual, with a 160 bpm turbo-ballistic take of “Rolla Dex”.

¡Push Empurra Empuja!

All NRG programmed by Doctor Jeep, Aquarian, Hodge & Sam Binga between NYC, Berlin & Bristol 2022 – 2023

Mastering__ Seph
Artwork__ Sometimes Always
Catalogue No.__ TRA013

Doctor Jeep — Push The Body — TRA013 (Hodge + Aquarian + Sam Binga remixes)

Download__ https://tratratrax.bandcamp.com/album/drumtratrax

We are super happy to announce an important step in the expansion of our sonic vision into other territories in the global south. We have built a bridge between Colombia, Egypt and beyond to present 3Phaz. On this EP called DrumTraTrax, the mysterious Cairo producer embarks on an ambitious, hi-fidelity journey through three futuristic & incisive percussive hitters.

Once again, we have assembled a ridiculous combo of remix artists to complement 3Phaz’s work. Mexico's finest, OMAAR, delivers a revamped version of ´Drum Trax’ with his trademark drums and marches. ‘Slomo Strut’ beckons for Amazondotcom who has pushed the boundaries of avant-garde electronica, while E-Saggila shows herself in pure form with a broken and aggressive techno version. And what can we say about ZULI? totally unclassifiable music.
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releases May 26, 2023

All NRG programmed by 3Phaz, Amazondotcom, E-Saggila, ZULI & OMAAR, between El Cairo, Montreal, el Estado de México & Los Ángeles 2022 – 2023.

Mastering__ Seph
Artwork__ Cmdp.fk
Catalogue No.__ TRA014

3Phaz — DrumTraTrax — TRA014 (ZULI + Amazondotcom + E-saggila + OMAAR remixes)

Download__
https://tratratrax.com/album/gueto-club

Stop everything you are doing. Royalty has come to bless us. After doing a ballistic remix two years ago, it was time for Badsista to land on TraTraTrax with their own EP.

Today we present GUETO CLUB, an expedition that connects Rafa's experience with their freshest Brazilian influences, mainly from their travels between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. What's the result? Three gifts, three 4x4 cuts with super tight percussions plus driven sequences with hypnotically distilled baile funk reminiscences.

This time, on remix duties, only boss affairs. We commission tools of the first order. The G of Principe, DJ Marfox delivers a version that grooves with bubbling kuduro visiting baile de favela vocals. While the G of Timedance, Batu, also deconstructs VEM PRA ZONA LESTE into a supra classy version that will sit perfectly on your build-up section.
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releases August 18, 2023

All NRG programmed by Badsista, DJ Marfox & Batu between Sao Paulo, Lisboa & Bristol | 2022 – 2023.

Mastering__ Seph
Artwork__ Julián Guzmán
Catalogue No.__ TRA015

Badsista — GUETO CLUB — TRA015 (Batu + DJ Marfox remixes)

Download__ https://lucaduran.bandcamp.com/album/pa-bailar

Exciting news on the horizon: There's a new EP from el Duro Durán. Pa' Bailar is the new work of the Colombian-Swiss artist, in which he collaborates with his old talented pana, Parco Palaz. We have three tracks to get lost in the depths and eroticism that a dark, sweaty and hot dancefloor can present. After a long time, Luca once again dabbles in fast tempos that intertwine nostalgia and incisive percussive programming, whilst also slower, more sexy bends, as on "Ojos Cerrados".

And right there, in that track, is where the remixes stay. Perko makes a special intersection that Ricardistas and Basic Chanel fans will enjoy very much. Last but not least, one of London's prodigal sons, Laksa, makes a fabulous decision: 143 bpm half tempo | half guaracha.
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releases September 22, 2023

All NRG programmed by Luca Durán, Parco Palaz, Perko & Laksa between Zurich, Copenhagen and London | 2023.

Mastering__ Seph
Artwork__ Wurdex
Catalogue No.__ TRA016

Luca Durán — Pa' Bailar — TRA016 (Perko + Laksa remixes)

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tratratrax.bandcamp.com/album/no-pare-sigue-sigue-2

”no pare, sigue sigue" our annual and favorite popurrí is back. If you remember what we did in 2022, you will know that there is not much to explain here. It is pure boom boom boom, 18 explosive cuts, club-ready, certified-bang-bangs, at different tempos and rhythmic structures but with one thing in common: hi-tech design, lots of sonic adventures by new and old acquaintances de la casa.

There is something for everyone here: cult legends like Siete Catorce, 3Phaz, Doctor Jeep or Maoupa Mazzocchetti share the lineup with exciting new talents like Surusinghe, Entrañas, Atrice or WOST. Furthermore, you will notice the evident emphasis on this bridge we are trying to build between Sur América and the UK.

no paramos, seguimos.
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released February 9, 2024

All NRG programmed by sound designers from Latino América, África and Europa.

Artwork__Julián Guzman
Mastering__ Seph
Catalogue No.__ TRA017

V/A — no pare, sigue sigue 2 — TRA017

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https://maoupamazzocchetti.bandcamp.com/album/cilicio

We welcome to the label one of our favorite sound explorers in the world, Belgian-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Maoupa Mazzocchetti. After creating the intro for our last compilation, Maoupa delivers us Cilicio, an EP that ensures a high point in his cult catalogue, exploring tracks that guarantee devastation in any risk-taking set. Four of the tracks belong to that unique universe where the unpredictable artist always sets his own rules. The other two consist of stellar collabs- an essential featuring his friend Clara! and the other made with an old amigo of the label, the Venezuelan Cardopusher aka Safety Trance.

On the remixes, we went all out with 'también'. Our papi Nick León returns home with a melancholic 140 roller that has the trademark, dembowish-techno sound of the Miami producer. Finally, we are delighted to have on the label the Mexican who is breaking all the rules of this "industry", Regal86. As usual with his work and in line with only the greatest producers, the Monterrey artist essentially gave us a loop, one where we could stay forever.
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released March 29, 2024

Artwork__ Callum Bridge
Mastering__ Seph

Maoupa Mazzocchetti — Cilicio — TRA018 (Nick León + Regal86 remixes)

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tratratrax.bandcamp.com/album/ruido-y-flor

Ambient?

Sí.

But also, a musing on transcendence. So lay down and close your eyes because on this one, our querida joya @eezzmmeerraallddaa wonders what we all wonder every now and then: good old 'What happens when we die?' We sort of know the drill: the cling, the not wanting to go, the inevitable... the heartbreaking nostalgia of parting ways with this world... and also, the chance to end the pain. Then comes the grief: bye bye sweetness, chao joy, adiós tenderness... then -¡ayayay! the terror, the slow fade-out, the nothingness. At last that sparkle in the dark edge of the hiss shows us the way to the ultimate surrender, to then become a garden in the void, and finally return to mamá amor as big beautiful rainbows.

This is Ruido y Flor, the first offering of Ambie—Tón: our brave new venture into the heart of the haze.
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releases May 7, 2024

Artwork__ Jonathan Castro Alejos
Mastering__ Seph
Cataloge #__ AMBIE—TÓN001

Ezmeralda — Ruido y Flor — AMBIE—TÓN001

Through organized chaos we seek resurrection and inmortality. Sound and fury to the system, Electro-Ambient from the south: Mekas send the message, from Buenos Aires to the unknown. 

Get it here__
Bandcamp: https://tinyurl.com/ydhl3er2
Clone: https://tinyurl.com/y94emums
Redeye: https://tinyurl.com/y98dx22v
Lobster Records: https://tinyurl.com/yc2pgl7e
Deejay.de: https://tinyurl.com/ycrhymku
Juno: https://tinyurl.com/ycjqoabr
Decks: https://tinyurl.com/ycelj6vq
HHV: https://tinyurl.com/y7yoznrt
Disco Piu: https://tinyurl.com/y4ysmlxl
Oye: https://tinyurl.com/y6c42nlt

Cat. number__ INS 4
Release date__ 05—02—19
Mastered__ Manmade Mastering, Berlin 
Distributed__ Lobster Distribution, London 
Pressed__ R.A.N.D. Muzik, Leipzig 
Artwork: Daniel Senior 
Photo: A work of Luz Peuscovich in collaboration with Janne Maria Lysen and Eli Cornejo. 

Tracklist__
A1 Mekas - Chaosmos 
A2 Mekas - Tension Lines 
B1 Mekas - Catalyze
B2 Mekas - Extrapolar

Mekas — Chaosmos — INS 4

Una referencia de la efervescente escena electronica de la Ciudad de México firma el podcast 14 de nuestra serie. Aquí está AAAA develando una faceta que pocas veces se la ha visto, tomando un periplo ambiental y disfórico perfecto para estos días de contemplación. 
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One of the heavyweights of the effervescent CDMX electronic scene  signs the podcast #14 of our series. Here is AAAA revealing a facet that has rarely shown, taking an ambient+dysphoric journey, perfect for these days of contemplation.

Insurgentes Podcast 14 | AAAA

Bandcamp__ 
https://tratratrax.bandcamp.com/album/evg-en-el-mapa

Insurgentes it’s proud to present its new sub-label: Tra Tra Trax. A hub for new sounds, from post-reggaeton to electronic-tribal/ club tracks, inspired by rhythms that we Latinx grew up with and that still runs through our open veins. It is also an effort to introduce and amplify marginal cadences, movements, and above all, the power of what the artists from the global South are sprouting from their streets, antros and underworlds.

For the first instalment, Envigado's finest marks the debut with EVG en el mapa, five cuts plagued with futuristic perreo nostalgia. Unravelling the golden days of the genre, "Medellín 3000" and "Cómo olvidarla" travel in time to bring back reggaetón boutique elegance. "Doncella (Tributo a la Z y la L)" pays homage to the iconic duo Zion & Lennox, turning around their 2004 gem into a true dispenser of sweaty bellaqueo. The two remaining tracks are more than clear examples of DJ Pai's premise: the perreo and the tears are more than welcome in the club.

DJ Pai — Cómo olvidarla — TRA001

El anfibio uruguayo se alza en nuestra serie de mixes con una selección que le rinde homenaje a la la fundamental influencia de los ritmos del caribe que han mutado en Cuba, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana o Colombia. Sí, aquí tienen 55 minutos de Timba, Latín jazz, merengue, salsa y fusiones contemporáneas cortesía de Lechuga Zafiro.

"Hacía tiempo quería hacer una mezcla que funcione como nota personal y que rinda homenaje a la fundamental influencia que los ritmos del caribe - en especial cuba y puerto rico - han tenido no sólo en nuestro continente, desde alaska a tierra del fuego, sino que en todo el mundo. Como saben, el adn socio-cultural de las poblaciones sudacas y de esta música en especial está conformado por genes indígenas, afro y europeos, pero lo que más me conmueve personalmente es la maestría con la que la herencia afro domina el ritmo y aporta su habilidad. Volcado especialmente a la timba, salsa y otros ritmos de origen afro-cubanos que han mutado en Colombia, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana, etc. y en un orden dudosamente cronológico pero que abarca las diversas expresiones que estos géneros híbridos han adquirido en el tiempo -tradicionales y mínimas, agresivas y top 40, románticas y barrocas-, esta mezcla significa la punta del iceberg de lo que tienen para ofrecer, pero mi intención es que funcione como una llave para despertar curiosidad sobre la salsa, sus orígenes y afluencias para el que nunca se acercó a ella, y que se goce con su diversidad y riqueza rítmica". @lechugazafiro

Insurgentes Podcast 15 | Lechuga Zafiro

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https://insurgentes-co.bandcamp.com/album/grial

Programmed between Medellín and Barcelona over the course of two years, Grial explores concepts of mestizo (a mixed race identity) and its “impurity” from an uncolonized perspective. Rejecting the notion of a singular Latinx musical identity, Verraco paints his own vision of South American IDM, blending perreo, jungle ambiance and mountainous Andes braindance.

From rural chants flowing down a mountain range, to street bikes and gang outbreaks lighting up cityscapes, the use of field recordings in Grial guide listeners through Verraco’s sonic fiction. These ten pieces present an intricate pluriverse that the Western world has greatly marginalized. Verraco proposes to rethink the sudaca cyborg-habitants of the future fusing powerful sound design to collapse the established order. Grial becomes the sacrament in which other possible worlds turn corporeal.

releases October 30, 2020

Cat. number__ INS 10
Mastering__ Rashad Becker
Distribution__ Rubadub
Art Direction + Graphic Design__ Pedro Ajo
3D__ Elvin Van Dalen
Manifesto__ Letizia + Verraco
Dedicated to lxs cyborg — neas that will ride the future. Puño arriba x100pre .I.

Verraco — Traición (10mente Mix)— INS 10

Bandcamp__ 
https://tratratrax.bandcamp.com/album/fuego-clandestino

Cat. number_ ​TRA002
Release date_ ​27 | november | 2020
Format_​ Digital
Genres_ Perreo, Breaks, Dancehall
Programed by Bitter Babe x Nick León between Miami &  Bogotá, 2020 | www.insurgentes.co


English Version_
Sweat and blood: TraTraTrax is back with five hot cuts leading into the depths of a 2050 illicit perreo party in Miami. Bitter Babe, the skilled Bogota selector, makes her production debut alongside one of the region's most exciting artists, Nick León. And as a happy ending, doing the last rousing, the Frenchman Simo Cell brings a remix that consecrates his futuristic sound design, this time diluted as never before in the Sudacas cadences that also lie in his Argentinean blood. Kneel down, look up and get ready to receive five whiplashes, five pleasant punishments from this stellar combo that sends a powerful message to the front line of the Latinx post-reggaeton.


Spanish Version_
Sangre y sudor: TraTraTrax está de vuelta con cinco candentes cortes que conducen hacia las profundidades de una fiesta ilícita de perreo del año 2050 en Miami . Bitter Babe, la fina selectora bogotana, hace su debut en el terreno de la producción al lado de uno de los artistas más emocionantes de la región, Nick León. Y como happy ending, haciendo la última provocación, el francés Simo Cell aporta un remix que consagra su futurista diseño sonoro, esta vez diluido como nunca en las cadencias sudacas que yacen también en su sangre argentina. Arrodíllense, miren hacia arriba y prepárense para recibir cinco latigazos, cinco placenteros castigos de este combo estelar que envía un poderoso mensaje a la primera línea del post-reggaetón latinx.

Nick León x Bitter Babe —  Fuego Clandestino — TRA002 (+Simo Cell remix)

sonic hustlers programming records that range from atmospheric sounds for the mind to breaks, tribal and dembow for the arses
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