Posts Tagged ‘Latino’
Each week we find a track from an artist or band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. In this duo’s name, prolific percussionist Eric Bobo brings the Ritmo and beatmaker Latin Bitman brings the Machine. “Maestro” is so beat-driven that it demands movement. Bobo busts the kind of funky tropical-themed rhythms that made The Beastie Boys’ Check Your Head and Ill Communication so infectious. Meanwhile, Bitman enhances the track with loops, samples, and a turntablist’s variety pack of transforming, cutting, and scratching.
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Each week, we find a track from an artist or a band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Cancíon de la Semana. It’s hard not to develop an instant crush on the gangly-limbed, mop-haired Argentine urchins of Banda de Turistas. Their latest single “Lo Camandas” sounds like it was recorded in a candle-lit garage in 1960s Buenos Aires. Bruno Albano’s cool vocals invoke the spirit of Roger McGuinn, as Patricio Tronocoso gets psychedelic on his set of German oscillator sequencers and analog polyphonic synthesizers. It’s nostalgia en español.
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Each week we find a track from an artist or a band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. Jarabe de Palo have been going strong since the mid-’90s, when they rose up out of a Barcelona scene that let their heart-on-sleeve mixture of soul and jam-oriented rock flourish. Now they’ve returned with ¿Y Ahora Qué Hacemos?, and you can check out the strident, riff-driven "Para Enredar" now.
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Each week, we find a track from an artist or a band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Canción de la Semana. Comprised of two guys and a girl, ChocQuib Town might remind listeners of a Latin Fugees. “Somos Pacifco,” a sonic fusion of indigenous tropical genres with straight up hip-hop, is a steamy, head-nodding slab of club funk.
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Each week we find a track from an artist or a band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Canción de la Semana. A wise woman once sang, “The rhythm is gonna get you,” and La Santa Cecilia’s “La Negra” profoundly illustrates this saucy sentiment. The Los Angeles-based jam band boasts a sound that uniquely incorporates Pan-American rhythms with a worldly vibe. On accordion-accented “La Negra,” the sextet will get your body rocking as La Marisoul delivers passionate, powerful vocals – singing about what happens when the moon comes out, with scat-like phrasings tossed in for soulful measure.
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Each week we find a track from an artist or a band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Canción de la Semana. Like his Latin adult contemporary peers Paulina Rubio and Sasha Sokol, Benny Ibarra began his career as a teen member of the ’80s soft rock band Timbiriche. Now he’s a dad with a substantial career as a producer and actor in film and TV, and a sophisticated new album to boot. "Calaveras" is his romantic duet with Mexican-American singer/songwriter Lila Downs. As she plays the sultry-voiced yin to Ibarra’s breathy yang, their sotto voces take turns mingling with a gently undulating tropical rhythm.
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Each week we find a track from an artist or a band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Canción de la Semana. Christopher Von Uckermann is one of the five ’80s babies who comprised the massively successful Mexican teen band, RBD — they sold over 20 million albums since their formation in 2004. Now a solo artist, the half-Mexican, half-Swedish pop star has a new single out, “Mundo Irreal.” It’s an unabashed disco tune that hustles to funky guitar chords and a bubbly bassline. With his slick delivery and suave attitude, Von Uckermann is just the man to guide you through this guilty pleasure.
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Each week we find a track from an artist or a band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Canción de la Semana. Observers of Latin music may recognize Alejo Aponte as the musical director and songwriter for the multiplatinum artist Fonseca. Aponte’s album Gente is largely inspired by the rhythms of the African diaspora manifest in music from Bogota to Brooklyn. “Me Voy” pulses with congas and timbales — a funk bassline burbles like a soothing brook. Midway through, the drums peel away as a sole electric guitar cries its lonely song. It’s music for a borderless new world.
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Each week we find a track from an artist or a band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Canción de la Semana. It makes sense that the six-man Mexico City collective Dapuntobeat has shared stages with Hot Chip and Fatboy Slim, because they share a common electro/techno genealogy. It’s impossible to not wiggle a bit to “0 (dospuntocero),” a song so densely layered that Hank Shocklee would have to give it props. First they lay down a thumpin’ drum track reminiscent of Salt-n-Pepa’s “Push It,” blend in pitch altered and chopped vocals, as a faintly tropical hook keeps the vibe decidedly Latin.
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Wind your hips and let you hair fall where it may – prolific alt-dance maestro Quantic teams with an eclectic group of musicians to give us “Un Canto a Mi Tierra.” The uplifiting sound fusion mixes jazzy horns; Columbia-rooted rhytms; and the rich, raw vocals of Nidai Gongora.
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