Already published in South America, last year, the new Album from Chile’s HipHop Queen Ana Tijoux now was released worldwide, digitally! “La Bala” is her third solo album, following the success of “Kaos” and “1977″, which brought the conscious Rapper international attention as well as a grammy nominee. Expect 11 great spanish vocal tracks with her powerful lyrics, strongly influenced by chilean politics, with Features from Jorge Drexler, Curumin, Monica Blaire, Los Aldeanos, Javier Barría and Solo Di Medina.
New Video from the Bay Area based band Bang Data. Their sound is a blend of underground HipHop and latin alternative like Samba, Cumbia, Reggae, Afro-Electro and Reggaeton.
The tune is featured on their 2011 EP “Maldito Carnaval”, which can be listened here:
and get a free download of “Toro Mata” ft. Eva Ayllón here:
Get some brazilian Reggaeton by Rapper MC Papo. You can download his 9-track, released last year, via soundcloud below. Unfortunately, some of the tunes aren’t available anymore, since the download limit was reached already, but a few copies of most tunes are still available. The Quality of the mp3 files differ, strongly but they are all 160kBit/s or better.
I’ve discovered the Artist while stumbling upon the new Video to the Remix of ” Namorar escondido” by Reggaeton Group Culandria, which features MC Papo.
While Moombahton is taking over the club scenes, worldwide, classic Reggaeton is still big in Brazil.
The new year starts with a bang as we have a guest in the studio: Mataklap of the infamous Bomb Diggy Crew. This spontaneous session back2back style is the perfect medicine for lethargic January.
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Riddims Tropicale is a monthly radioshow presented by TropicalBass.com streamed live every first Sunday of the month 2030h CET on Raggakings Radio. Hosted by Marflix with occasional guests.
Ritmo Machine is the new project from the percussionist of Cypress Hill and the Beasty Boys “Eric Bobo” and chilean DJ and Turntablist “Latin Bitman”. Together, they’ve released the great album “Welcome To The Ritmo Machine” on US label Nacional Records, specialised in latin american music, lately! On 12 tracks the two producers combine classic HipHop sounds with elements of latin american folk music, but also funk, jazz, reggaeton and a portion of electronic music!
One half of these tunes are instrumentals only, the other half features guest appearances from the two Beastys Money Mark & Mix Master Mike, Sen Dog from Cypress Hill, Jurassic 5′s Chali 2na, Ana Tijoux, P-Nut and Sick Jacken!
To learn more about the “Ritmo Machine” project, check this Video:
Free Download of the instrumental track “Maestro”:
Add some dembow to a classic and you got the proof Reggaeton is not dead. Boogat is flowing nicely over one of the best known samples in Jamaican music, Dawn Penn’s “You don’t love me (No No No)”. Although floating around in the blogosphere for a while now, finally this bass-heavy tune got a proper video and release on Poirier’s label “Also Records”.
This is the first release from the new Chile based label “Konn Recordings” specializes in digital cumbia, moombahton and other electronic-reborn latin rhythms and genres!
Caterina Purdy aka. Cholita Sound describes her sound as “handycraft-electro-dembow-andino” with elements of cumbia, merengue, reaggaeton and guarachero-step. The Ep features 4 of these hot tunes, the last one is even for free! Pre-listen and download them from here:
Do you remember Lambada, those innocent dance taken down the deadly spiral of pop culture by a band named Kaoma in 1989?
Besides the international dance craze this unauthorized plagiarism caused during the 90s, the original history of Lambada is more than interesting. In fact everything is based on an Andean Pop song from 1981, that travelled to Brazil (Belèm, to be precise) in the middle of the 80s to adopt aspects of dances such as Forró, Salsa, Merengue, Maxixe and Carimbó in the course of time. Continue Reading
Toys Selectah’s first EP on Mad Decent dropped today, aptly titled Mex Machine.
Let’s start with a little appetizer, the video for “Half Colombian, Half Mexican Bandit”, before we go in depth ;)
