Best Reissues of 2018
As well as the new sounds of Latin America, 2018 has also been a fine year for the reissuing of older material with this selection of 12 newly-refurbished classics a great place for searching out some of Latin... Read Article
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Infopesa Continue Rescue of Peruvian Music History With Juaneco y Su Combo Reissue
Back in 1972, Juan Wong Popilizio and his friend Noe Fachín signed to the Peruvian record label Infopesa to release their first full-length, an album called El Gran Cacique, which was also the nickname of their bandleader. Little... Read Article
Best Reissues of 2016
Considering the amount of Brazilian reissues that came out this year we felt compelled to bring a few of the finest to your attention, as well as a compilation from a stone-cold Colombian legend and some really nice classic cumbia... Read Article
MIXTAPE Pedrolito Radioglobal’s Peru Tropikal Mix
Mixtape paying tribute to tropical bass and cumbia from Peruvian and Peru-based artists from Pedrolito Radioglobal. Classic artists such as Juaneco Y Su Combo, Los Wemblers De Iquitos and Ranil Y Su Conjunto Tropical sit alongside the new... Read Article
Tiger’s Milk Records Announces Debut 7″ of Peruvian Cumbia and Funk
The UK gets it’s own Peruvian music label this Autumn as Tiger’s Milk Records announces their first release, a 7″ containing two prime examples of why Peru’s 60s and 70s musical output has been getting so much attention... Read Article
Peruvian Cumbia from Rolando Bruno y Su Orquesta MIDI
Brand new Peruvian cumbia for you today, which – in keeping with cumbia’s status as an international genre – comes from Argentina. Rolando Bruno y Su Orquesta MIDI is a project from Rolando Bruno, original member of Los... Read Article
MIXTAPE El Suizo’s Pachamama Mixtape
Here’s a bit of a special set from El Suizo aka Christoph H. Müller aka half of The Gotan Project in which he reconstructs a mix he originally played live at Ya Basta Festibal in Paris on October... Read Article
MIXTAPE La Tabaquera Presents Peru! Mixtape
This is the second mixtape from La Tabaquera – a project led by Alessandra Leão and Caçapa – which this time presents the music of Peru with over 40 minutes of boogaloo, salsa, chicha, landó, alcatraz and a... Read Article
REVIEW Grupo 2000 – El Destape
Following in the footsteps of the Peruvian chicha revival, Massachusetts based Masstrópicas have dusted off the master tapes and re-released one of the genre’s previously overlooked classics, Grupo 2000‘s El Destape. First released in 1974, the band’s début... Read Article
MIXTAPE Roots of Chicha Mixtape
It seems like a while since we last featured chicha on the site, which is why we thought we’d bring you this little mix of tracks off The Roots of Chicha releases for this week’s mix.
Stream of Juaneco y su Combo – Masters of Chicha
Following the release of the brilliant new The Roots of Chicha 2 compilation the folks at Barbes Records have decided to make Masters of Chicha, a recently compiled collection by Juaneco y su Combo, available for two weeks,... Read Article
Unearthing the Roots of Chicha: An Interview with Olivier Conan
Chicha, a unique form of cumbia from Peru has had something of a renaissance since Olivier Conan released his already-legendary compilation The Roots of Chicha in 2007. That compilation largely showed the Amazonian side of cumbia, featuring bands... Read Article