My homie, Oscar from the great Mexican restaurant in London, Chilango’s provided me with yet another AWESOME Super Cumbia Futurista track by the one and only AFRODITA, one of my favourite Nu Cumbia groups.

Ciclón del Caribe – Afrodita vs G-Flux

Sounds like, Kraftwerk and Grandmaster Flash all rolled into a cumbia vibe!

Some brilliant Indie-Nu Dance/Elektro-Rock geared for the Dancefloor here courtesy of Argentinian POLEN.

Of course. hardly anybody can escape the above genre classification without mentioning Justice, Erol Alkan and the Ed Bangers crew!  There’s also a hint of MGMT about this band’s sound and their artwork is very ZZK!

POLEN’s live act combines a syncro between Violent Guitars, Synths, Drums and Bass + Vocals full of energy.

They have released 2 EPs: “Metamorphy EP” (2008) and “Compressor EP” (2009).

The band have been kind enough to give you free downloads of both EP’s:

DOWNLOAD 2 FREE POLEN EP’S

Their “Triste” Track will be released by Coco Machete Rec (USA) on a Comp with bands like Cut Copy, Bloc Party, The Dirt Lab, Pop Levi, The films…

POLEN is also part of LARESISFUCKEDUP CREW – a group of Djs, Vjs, Producers, Photoshooters that promotes their own Electro / New Parties in Buenos Aires

Band Influences: Soulwax, Digitalism, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Midnight Juggernauts…

PolGoz: Vocals, Guitar, Synths
Ivana Lapolla: Bass, Drums
Carla Nastri: Sequences
Sebastian Reinholz: Drums, Bass

KINKY LINKS

Myspace
http://myspace.com/polenrockers
Fairtilizer
http://fairtilizer.com/users/polen
Soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/polenrock
Contact
acceleratedculture@gmail.com

YO MOFO’s!!

look around!! find your speakers.. and TURN THE VOLUME UP!! cuz THIS IS THA ZH*T!!

first one of the dopest mix made by the loco amigo dj ripley!! it goes from jamaica to morocco burning dancefloors!!
Slayers-Club-ft-Ripley-at-Terenga-11.12.09 by ripley

bring you some of The ultra famous Jahcoozi’s hot barefoot!
JAHCOOZI – NAMEDROPPER (SOLO RMX)>> OUT NOW ON VINYL!! by Jahcoozi

also a dope remix from modeselektor

JAHCOOZI – NAMEDROPPER (SOLO RMX)>> OUT NOW ON VINYL!! by Jahcoozi

Everybody’s a ROCKSTAR SUPASTA’ DJ here on Friday Afternoons.

So you know the drill, go crazzzzyyyyyy…….

It’s the…FRIDAY AFTERNOON DJ MIXFESTTTTTT

BALTIMORE CLUB

JON KWEST

BaltiDelphia Vol 1 by Jon Kwest

BaltiDelphia Vol 2 by Jon Kwest

ELECTRO – FIDGET – GHETTOTECH

PINK PADS

PINK PADS DJ MIX

TRACKLISTING

1)Pink a pad’s-Il Farabutto
2)Junkie Xl-Booming right at you
3)Pink a pad’s vs Doc Trashz-Lo Scocciatore
4)Mememe-John(promo)
5)Mr.Oizo-Gay dentist
6)Titan-Bruxism groove-HMA rmx
7)Arabesque-In a bottle-Pink a pad’s rmx

RETAIL – BUY THE EP

FUNK – HIP HOP – MASH UPS

SHEEN BROTHERS

Download link for Volume 2 below, and you can click here for a link to Volume 1, mixed by 4th Pyramid.

Special shouts to the following people for helping make Volume 2: 4th Pyramid, Tamir, Z. Brown, Mark Lowyns, Raj Mahal, Bird Peterson, Justin Torres, Dante Ross, DJ Nu-Mark, 7l & DJ Beyonder, Stretch Armstrong & Eli Escobar

Sheen Brothers “Scumbag Funk Volume 2″ (Mixed by Cosmo Baker) Download link

Tracklist:

“Sparkling” Intro
“L.A. Night”
“Family Affair”
“Step Out”
“Troy”
“Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme”
“Clique”
“Pon De Girls”
“Oh Baby”
“I Can’t Turn The Boogie Loose”
“Move It”
“Keep Her Happy”
“Party Time”
“I’m Flippin’” (Instrumental Remix)
“Poppa Large”
“Shades Of Time”
“The Glow Of Love” (Bladerunners Edit)
“I Can Do It (Anyway You Want)”
“Boogie Down Bronx (DJ Jayceeoh Re-edit)”
“Eurodans”
“Can’t Get Ready For Losing You” (Sheen Bros Edit)
“Don’t You Know” Outro

GHETTOTECH

Neuroticbass Dj set ( Lapa’s Kraken Rum totally drunk party mix ) by RIONEUROTICBASS

DUBSTEP

NEGATIVZ

Dub Salad Bacon by Negativz

BALKAN HOUSE – TROPICAL – SWING

DJ BADRE

THIS IS BALKAN by djbadre

Tracklist:

Peter Pozorek-Belly off (FAST PITCH ..)

La Caravane Passe- Balkanski Bal (Dj Click Remix)

Steve Angello – Flonko (Erkan Eroglu Edit)

M.IN & Jones – Balkan Style

Solo – Rawmania Sync & Arg95-Suseleker (Flak Attack Remix)

Riva Starr – I Was Drunk Ot Azoj

Klezmer Band – turkish honga (streamer & mps pilot remix)

Basti Grub – Und Das Klavier

Christian Green-Kosovo+(Original Mix) Die Vögel-Empire

FIDGET – ELECTRO – TROPICAL BASS

DJ GREENFLY

YOUR GIRLFRIEND IS A FAKE [MIXTAPE] by DJ GreenFly

A brilliant new TRIBAL GUARACHERO track I picked up from Mexico based Maria y Jose a.k.a Unsexy Nerd Ponies.

DOWNLOAD

Mi Chulita

STREAM

Mi Chulita by María y José

Here’s a rather brilliant mix too of Kuduro, Tribal Guarachero, Champeta and Tropical Bass.

María y José-Vamos A Rezar Mix by María y José

Kiss My Bass Recordings is proud to announce it’s first release, out now at all good digital stores, “I Came To, You Came To”.

The label itself is based in Portsmouth, UK but has already enlisted a wealth of talent from all over the world.  Mr Vega is one such talent, hailing from New York and recently enjoying a surge of DJ sets in the city, including a night at the much talked about CMJ festivities.

His trademark gritty electro house sound has been ruling the blog music scene for some time now and his remixes are getting big attention so it only seemed right that he provide the setting for KMB’s first release.

This track takes that gritty sound and adds a heavy dose of rave and wobble, ensuring a full dance floor and grinning mugs!

Remixes come in dubstep influenced house sound from Udy (Dusted Breaks, Communicate, Prozak, Mixtape Recordings…), big room sub heavy breaks from II Tone (Standard Audio, Dusted Breaks) and noisy looping madness from Ricky Vaughn (NY).

DJ response to the EP has been very encouraging with Drop the Lime featuring the Udy remix in his latest podcasted mix for Clash Music. Foamo, Pirate Soundsystem, Kry Wolf & Punk Jump Up have also responded positively to the track.

BUJU BEN LECTRO REMIX

UDY DUBSTEP REMIX

RETAIL

Juno

KINKY LINKS

Mr Vega: http://www.twitter.com/mr_vega
Udy: http://www.twitter.com/udya
Kiss My Bass: http://www.twitter.com/kiss_my_bass
Buju Ben: http://www.myspace.com/experimentalben

U ready for dumbass DUMBSTEP…..hahahaha..Yeah I know that’s taking sub-genres too far, we already has some Shitzstep and Dopestep previously!

A guy called MERKATROID from Athens, Greece made the track below which he defined as DUMBSTEP and here’s what he said about it:

“a quaint lil’ remix I dun did for the Martin Bros. remix contest. Kinda has a split genre twisterooni”.

Man it’s a really strange track but quite a cool one too in an extremely dumbass way….lol…!

The Martin Bros-Dum – WONKY KONG ate t.Bot’s DumbStep remix by merkatroid

Yo! Before talking about music i wanna give a big clap clap to my bro juan data and his cool blog! he’s done an excellent, funny & clever post about neo-cumbia.

Let’s start talking about my country Colombia, in where we share a particular respect for cumbia that i don’t see in other countries like mexico, argentina, or peru, in where the cumbia’s seen really low-brow or “naco” .To be honest tons of colombian don’t dig real cumbia either, i dont know too many people who’d put lisandro in their mp3/ipod or whatever they have for listening; as far as i know, most of people only enjoy this nu-cumbia or the posh, high profile “cubilleo”.

But in terms of creating music, we (colombian) musicians try to pay respect to alejo duran (the first vallenato king),or one of Colombia’s most recognized Cumbia/vallenato artists, Lisandro Meza who plays accordion, sings, and composes.  Meza played for years with duran, he also is a founding member of the Colombian supergroup Los Corraleros del majagual.

Meza’s raw voice exudes a country charm that compliments his breezy accordion style.If you want to know the african roots and his perception of cumbia, our brothers of Afropop made an awesome interview

Meza’s music is just mind blowing: he has made some of the best cumbia songs ever!! but he also has pushed cumbia/vallenato to the next level, i dunno how to describe this song (vallenato & cumbia,with a cuban guajiro influence) some people in colombia call it this kind of vallenato paseo,( It is the most played and marketed rhythm in the vallenato music. Generally, this is the one that is used to make the accordion light up and take a key part in the song.)

baracunatana

which was  a covered by the iconic Aterciopelados !!! here

here’s also a sick cumbia using asian chords

lizandro meza: cumbia del oriente
Cumbia p’a Oriente – Lisandro Mesa by Canalh

and with this neo-tropical awareness!! he doesn’t want to be left behind.. Meza has also collaborated recording an electro-cumbia( or what in colombia we know as the posh “cubilleo”) of his mega hit “las tapas“

video

Our homie, DOMA TORNADOS just dropped this great remix of a Villa Lobos track.

GRAB IT HERE & PLEASE SHARE!

DOMA TORNADOS remix of the track “BAILE” produced by Ricardo Villalobos featuring The Updates.

Credits released 19 November 2009 “BAILE”, original track, written and produced by Ricardo Villalobos featuring The Updates.  Released by Sei Es Drum Records. “BAILE RMX”, remix version, written and produced by Doma Tornados.  Released by Hipi Duki Muzik under Creative Commons Licence.  All rights reserved

Cool Tropical Bass (with a sweet vocal) track that dropped into our GLOBAL GHETTOTECH Soundcloud group last week.

D/L it below.

Giovanca – Free (Elected remix) by Dox Records

Here’s some info about the artist and label:

The special edition of Giovanca’s Subway Silence has been released. More than a year after the original release, Giovanca released this special edition.

Dox Records asked a number of producers to do a remix of their favorite tune by this Dutch soul child. One of the producers is DJ Elected. He remixed the track Free and transformed it into a heavy, but tropical bass track.

Subway Silence (Special Edition)
The Digital Remixes only (The DJ Elected remix is on this EP)

Bio Giovanca:

For years Giovanca has been known as the radiant background singer who did live and studio work for (inter)national artists such as Relax, Wouter Hamel, Typhoon, Tribute2BobMarley, Corey, Izaline Calister, Jhelisa Anderson, Terry Callier, Leon Ware and Benny Sings. The musical click with Benny Sings and the DOX record label made her decide to take a step forward and present her own work.

From the twelve songs on her debut album slowly arises the appearance of a talented young woman who is not easily defined. At times melancholic and vulnerable, at other times independent and free. Feel-good music with influences from pop, soul, jazz, Motown and hip hop.

The end result is an extraordinary and diversified record with international allure. With Subway Silence Giovanca demonstrates that she will not be restricted by genre specific regulations. Music is not like mathematics. it just has to feel good and the same goes for the words that one uses.

Thinking  of songs that touch me, emotion always is more important than the literal message. “Soul” uniquely shimmers through her light, dreamy voice that Giovanca uses to sing about life, loneliness, love and above all: herself.
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KINKY LINKS:

www.giovanca.com

www.myspace.com/giovanca
http://twitter.com/GIOVANCA

Bio DJ Elected:

Code & Elected had nuff time to put up their Sirkus Recordings label. “We & the people need dusty beats, digital reggae, bashment mashups & such.”

Wicked! they said in England and there was some heavy dubplate exchange going on in pubs & clubs. That was some time ago… now Sirkus has records in store, mixtapes online, mashups on blogs, parties burned down. Elected has recently been pretty busy making remixes for Manchester’s Bam Bam Dealers, dutch singer Giovanca and upcoming electro act Baskerville. Next: a massive digital dancehall tune featuring Seanie T & Roots Manuva!

Check elected news & downloads on the sirkus recordings web

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KINKY LINKS:

http://www.sirkusrecordings.com

http://www.myspace.com/electedbeats