In February Riobamba and Uproot Andy launched a new collaboration, Bien Buena. This monthly Red Bull Radio show is an opportunity for the two producers/DJs would to show off their latest musical discoveries from Latin America and the Latin... Read Article
It’s been quite a while since we’ve been fortunate enough to get a new mixtape by New York City’s Uproot Andy. Well, luck is on our side, as he’s teamed up with fashion brand Studio 189 to release... Read Article
When DJ and Que Bajo?! party co-founder Geko Jones returned from spending some time living in his mother’s home island of Puerto Rico some months ago, it seems he was bitten by the Boricua party gods to produce something... Read Article
If you haven’t already, you will soon hear and read his name quite a lot, because Thor Partridge, better known as Thornato is one of the most interesting, up-and-coming musicians, DJs and producers emerging from the New York global... Read Article
Que Bajo?! has been known “New York’s #1 tropical bass party” for close to eights years now, and in that time, we’ve watched it grow into something beautiful. Hosted by Dutty Artz DJs Geko Jones, Uproot Andy, and Riobamba,... Read Article
It seems like a monster task to update Fania classics for a new audience, but the legendary label was able to knock it out of the park by teaming up with global bass DJ crew Calentura for a compilation of remixed tracks from the... Read Article
If you pay close attention to the beginning of the new Uproot Andy remix “The Takedown Response (El Dembow Prohibido),” you’ll catch the phrase, “Pa’ joderte!” That was very much intentional. You see, his recent dembow-fication of Drake and... Read Article
MPeach is a Latina del futuro, a Latin of the future, as she titles one of her latest tracks. The future however feels like a question, about what once was and what still is Latin America today. Maybe... Read Article
If October is an indication of what’s in store for the global bass, tropical, Alt-Latino, and AfroColombian scenes in New York City leading up into the winter, then the Big Apple is going to be cooking. This Saturday (Oct.... Read Article
New York City was the place to be this past weekend for those interested in the African roots of Latino cultures thanks to the third edition of the Afrolatino Festival NYC. The three-day event, which took place from 10-12 July,... 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
Adrian Manzano is a lover. It’s an impression I got the second I met him at a “Que Bajo?” party a few years ago. Now, I don’t mean that the native New Yorker was hitting on me, but that this... Read Article
