To celebrate the launch of our Sounds and Colours Argentina book and CD release, we asked renowned Argentine tropical bass producer Doma Tornados to put together a mixtape of some of his favourite tracks from Argentina since the... Read Article
Let’s go back about seven years. Chances are the first time you heard the term ‘electro-cumbia’ it was in relation to a song released by ZZK Records. In 2009 the genre got hot for a New York minute... Read Article
Original digital cumbia duo FAAUNA (née Fauna) are back with “San Pedro”, a deadly dose of psychedelic beats that’s helping us see into the future (is that what’s it supposed to do?). FAAUNA, back when they were still... Read Article
On his latest mixtape Andrés Digital has moved from the cumbia of his Conjunto Terrestrial release to the Pacific sounds of the marimba, while still keeping the heady bass sounds that are always a big part of whatever... Read Article
You’ve probably heard Mauricio Alvarez’s project, Cero39, before. He’s churned out remixes for a lot of the cumbia digital heavy hitters, from Colombia’s own Bomba Estéreo and Lido Pimienta, to ZZK greats Fauna. Now we get to hear... Read Article
Since approximately 2006, the musicians from ZZK Records have managed to turn Buenos Aires into a hotbed for sonic experimentation, mirroring on some level global trends within electronic music and the remix culture. Nonetheless, the sounds coming from... Read Article
On November 5th Argentine label ZZK Records will be releasing their Future Sounds of Buenos Aires compilation in the UK on CD, vinyl and digitally. The compilation shows how much the label has grown from it’s originally club-focused... Read Article
For his fifth body of work, Humberto Pernett has managed to release an album that is modern yet retro, folkloric yet futuristic. The Caribbean Computer, a happy hodgepodge of all these traits, drops in Colombia on September 25th.
Peru’s Dengue Dengue Dengue take the music of the continent’s north and give it a modern twist, complete with a nod to gringo beats (Boards of Canada’s cumbia makeover here is stellar). DDD is a duo made up... Read Article
We were extremely honoured to be invited onto Cal Jader’s Movimientos radio show on SOAS Radio in London for a Sounds and Colours-style takeover. The result was an hour of hip-hop, afro-beat, indie, electro-pop, noise and all manner... Read Article
La Revancha En Cumbia is the intriguing new release from Gotan Project, taking songs from their hugely influential La Revancha del Tango album and recasting them as slow-burning cumbia tunes thanks to a number of Latin DJs and... Read Article
Caballito, aka Grita and Bigote, are two DJs/producers from Spain with some serious love for Latin American music. You may remember the Caballito Es Colombia mixtape they did for us in the summer. Well, they’ve now put together... Read Article
