“¡Ay, qué manera de caer hacia arriba y de ser sempiterna, esta mujer!” (“Oh, the way this woman has of falling upwards and being eternal!”) These are the opening lines to Pablo Neruda’s poem “Una Elegia para Cantar” (An... Read Article
It was the beginning of the year 2007, when avant garde Chilean experimental music netlabel Pueblo Nuevo released Cumbia Bichera EP, the first electronic cumbia effort by Argentinean Andrés Schteingart, a.k.a. El Remolón. A lot has been going on since then,... Read Article
‘Barrioteca Tropical’ is a movement and Uproot Andy is at the forefront. Putting together parties in New York, releasing material on independent labels and mixing tropical tunes since the beginning, when even hashtags genres like ‘global bass’ hadn’t... Read Article
Cal Jader, the main man behind London’s Latin music promoters Movimientos, has just put together this amazing mix of cumbia and we wanted to share it with you. The mix features both old and new styles of cumbia,... Read Article
Great new video from Kumbia Queers, filmed in Buenos Aires. Kumbia Queers are a group of five Argentine girls and one Mexican. Their sound could be described quite simply as nu cumbia, though perhaps tropical punk can at... Read Article
Tasty selection of nueva cumbia tracks from Pedrolito that should take the edge of the wintry conditions for all those Northern Hemisphere types out there! Features tracks from Kumbia Queers, Cumbia Bestial and Makina as well as remixes... Read Article
