For the new year, the North Pole has decided to gift the United States a big, fat, awful round of frigid air via an atrocity called the ‘polar vortex.’ (Readers from the United Kingdom will know what I’m... Read Article
Antioch is a Chilean DJ and producer whose Umbral EP has just been released on Santiago’s Dilema Industria label. The follow-up to last year’s Las Brisas EP, Umbral features five tracks which glide through hip hop, electro and... Read Article
There’s an alarming moment at the start of the new video from Chilean electro duo DJ Raff and Latin Bitman when ‘Cruz del Sur’ kicks in with a stonking, David Guetta-like trance hook. It would be a big... Read Article
En route to Santiago’s La Cupula theatre the police have shut off traffic for some unknown reason. This means hopping out of the cab and trekking across the vast expanse of the city’s O’Higgins Park (named after the... Read Article
Catnapp seems too nice a name for someone who wrote this dark electro piece, pairing a damaging DJ Shadow beat with menacing vocals and a descending melody. We know very little about Catnapp other than she veers between... Read Article
This is a disc of two halves. Predominate throughout is the kind of Latin/reggae/hip-hop groove that Manu Chao is famous for, even perhaps sounding more like the rougher yet more dynamic offerings of his early band Mano Negra,... Read Article
