Via okayafrica

A great project, check it out below:

OKAYAFRICA + OKAYPLAYER present a new series in collaboration with
CONVERSE RUBBER TRACKS PLAYER XCHANGE:

1 artist from Africa X 1 artist from the U.S.
+ 1 day in Converse Rubber Tracks studio
= 1 final collabo song

In our second episode, Kenyan electro-pop futurists JUST A BAND collaborate with Atlanta-based rapper GO DREAMER for track “Digitize Me (Converntional Oven)”

For the second installment of Converse Rubber Tracks Player Xchange, we paired Kenyan futuristic-pop group Just A Band — the gang behind Kenya’s first viral hit — with ATL’s shape-shifting rapper Go Dreamer. The two came out of Converse Rubber Tracks studio with “Digitize Me (Conventional Oven),” a fuzzy beatboxed gem that blends Dreamer and JAB’s unconventional quirks. Watch a behind-the-scenes video chronicling the creation of the song and download the oh-too-catchy “Digitize Me (Conventional Oven)” on Okayafrica now.

Our dude Drvg Cvltvre just did an awesome podcast for the mighty Fools Gold Records and so go and check it out.   Here’s what they say:

Drvg Cvltvre has been living up to his name with freaky edits (including one for our own Jokers Of The Scene), remixes and original tracks. He put together a DJ mix for our FOOLCAST series, and it seriously bumps. If you’re asking about a track list, Mr Cvltvre explains this was “recorded live, so I’ll have to shazam it ”

Subscribe to the Foolcast via iTunes or your favorite RSS reader at the main Foolcast page, where you can also download the mix directly (right click and save-as). Dive in and trip out…

Another member of the soon to be famous DZC Crew, this is Mo Tello.

Mo Tello has been a member of DZC Deejays from the begininng. He was influenced by the other crew members to become a DJ. Later on he was taught by DJ Matabaya how to produce and his specialsim lately has been AfroBeat!

Grab these killa cutz:

There is so much musical activity happening these days online. Trends start up out of nowhere and explode over night. The ones that last merge into other “post” sub genres of itself and those that don’t last just disappear from the consciousness to the point where most forget that they even existed. We move fast online that is for sure. One thing I am certain of is that the music I am about to share with you now will last forever. Cumbia is deeply rooted into the psyche of many cultures, so much so that it never dies. It may seem trendy at times but that trendiness is only in countries where cumbia doesn’t have strong roots in. For the countries where the roots are deep, it is impossible for cumbia to be just a trend. It is instead, permanent.

Fortunately for me and the vast majority of South America, cumbia is something we can produce and experiment in forever. We never cease to lose our love for the cumbia sound that intoxicates our senses every time we hear it. At Generation Bass I proudly found a home where I can share my love for cumbia, where I can expose the work of many great artists who will never go out of style. Like rock music, cumbia is here to stay and as long as I am writing here at Generation Bass (which I hope is for a very long time), cumbia will be celebrated on this influential blog.

El Remolón is one of the many genius digital cumbia innovators. He recently received the task of scoring a movie. The movie is called Boxeo Constitución, it is a movie about young people in an underground boxing gym rebelling against the Argentinian social and economic crisis. The movie follows two adolescent boxers from the disenfranchised suburbs of Buenos Aires on their path to their debut fights. This first bout will decide whether they can hold their hopes up to escape the lack of perspective in their neighborhoods in order to “be someone” one day. When some of their colleagues form a boxers union, their youthful enthusiasm is confronted with the harsh social reality of their sport.

El Remolón was trusted to score this movie, a trust which I too would give to him. He creatively brings cumbia into the boxing training realm by emulating the sounds and vibes of the gym. El Remolón carefully and meticulously produced tracks to perfectly match the scenes in the movie. He even recorded the ambient noises of the gym into his music. The sonic soundscapes capture the vibes perfectly. This is something that many composers find to be difficult. It’s easy to fall back on traditional movie scoring techniques but to truly stand out, one must capture the essence of the scenes, the locations, and the over all vibe of the movie in a more creative way.

When Stewart Copeland composed the score for Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece Passion Fish, he brought his own unique style and flavor to the score. Besides the brilliant use of spherical lenses, acting and writing, the music really set the tone for the movie and has made it memorable for many of us forever. Dare I say El Remolón is on par with Copeland? Yes I dare say so and without hesitation.

The soundtrack is out today for purchase and it features several well known names in our treasured cumbia scene. These names include Lido Pimienta, Maxi Russo, Fermin Echeveste and Andres Ravioli, from Morbo & Mambo and Mompox on horns, Juan Marnich from Pimentón on nylon guitar and Pablo Zapata on bandoneon. Also is the presence of Patricio Smink on percusion and Daniel Schteingart on keyboards, both integrants of El Remolón & Su Conjunto band.

Edited by Waxploitation and released under ZZK Records, Boxeo Constitución is a cumbia marvel and if you have any common sense you will purchase it from Amazon. To hear cumbia as the main style for a movie soundtrack is such a wonderful gift. I know I will treasure the soundtrack for the rest of my days. Trust me the songs are beautiful at times to where they make you tear up while at other times they just make you really think deeply.

Please grab this. For free I can share a sample of the single with Lido Pimienta called Boxeo. Grab that HERE. 

To purchase and sample the entire Boxeo Constitución soundtrack, which I can’t emphasize how important it is to do so, please do so here on Amazon with this LINK.

For me he is THE DON of Global Bass music in Europe.  I learned a lot from Haaksman and his fabulous taste in music and his Man Recording releases.

He has been pushing this scene for quite a while and imho, doesn’t get near enough as much respect and attention as he should get and truly deserves.  He is genuinely moved by this music and that is not hard to detect if he you look at his profile and history.

He has just reached 10k “genuine” followers on soundcloud (should be a lot more imho) and to celebrate  this he has just let loose on 10 brilliant multi-genre Global Bass Bangers that are a must for anybody into this music.

Just one final word, watch your back Daniel, I am not far behind..ahahahah AND for saying all of the above will you please release my next track on your label..lol…

Here’s what he says:

To celebrate more than 10K followers on Soundcloud, I give away a mixed bag of ten remixes for free for a period of 10 days.

Thanks for following me!

Art by 420 Grafix

It has been an urge that has been increasing in intensity for me, the urge to take long drives normally taking two days to a week, and visit different cities where I can walk around and take photographs. I’m studying the human condition to find answers or perhaps to find myself. The objective is not yet clear but the journey and the documentation is well underway.

When I take these trips I enjoy the deep thinking, the meditating, the observing and meeting of pretty girls and friendly people, and the behavior of our species when we go about our daily lives blind to our impact and part in the natural world around us. These aspects and tasks might seem very time consuming, and they are, but they don’t interfere with my habit of collecting music throughout the day. I believe that there is nothing powerful enough to consume my time to the point where I turn my back to my obsession of listening to everyone’s music. In my case, which might be obvious due to the nature of this blog post, nu cumbia is at the forefront of the music that I collect and listen to.

I was a bit late last weekend, so late that I failed to write and publish this post. That being said however, there were several incredible new tracks uploaded to the Internet clouds that did not escape my attention. It would be a crime against all that is good for me not to share them with all of you right now.

Pedrolito starts things off this time with his newest cumbia mixtape for his Dale Amor A la Cumbia series. Pedrolito never ceases to successfully deliver the goods from cumbia digital to chicha to everything under the cumbia sun.

Dale amor a la cumbia que la cumbia te lo devuelve #43 – Especial Radio Mixticius by Pedrolito Radioglobal on Mixcloud

Our deep cumbia boy Dany F explores the deepness he is peacefully content in producing in once again with his newest creative cumbia featuring Leandro Diaz.

It’s been a couple of months or perhaps more, since DJ Pase appeared here on SSC. Making for an awesome return, he delivers us this very cool cumbia rebajada.

A warm little cumbia comes this week from Sigsonbia. It is very minimalistic, which is an aspect that seems to draw me in right away.

Qechuaboi is not known to be someone who won’t tackle new ideas and genres with his cumbia remixes. This is a good thing for us. And this next song is a good example.

I proudly wish to share a very special video with all of you. This is a video featuring our good friend and SSC regular Kuto Selektah Quilla with his group Tunche SoundSystem.

This next one is too cool. The master Orihuela M.S.S. drops by SSC this week with his charming new cumbia digital.

Arturo Hererra DJ returns once again with his unique take on nu cumbia. This time he takes us into a cumbia psychedelica trip.

Turbo Sonidero Futuristico went to work on a new track featuring vocals by Amber aka Ambr33zy. Her vocals were recorded off her laptop’s built in mic.

I haven’t shared anything from Comanchaca for a long time now. I believe about five months actually. This is a good time to share some of his newer tracks. These tracks are all very interesting and worth downloading.

This takes me back. Ramon Ayala was the ballad master on par with Vicente Fernandez at the parties and clubs in my past. Here we get a taste of what happens when Ramon meets Enrikisimo DeeJay.

El Mulato is the man when it comes to interesting innovative ideas for nu cumbia. His latest showcases his unique sound that I always excitingly look forward to.

El Maestro, el genial DJ Neber hits the spot once again with his new Latin drum and bass experiment.

When I read or hear the name Derbastler I immediately think of Balkan infused cumbia. This time I was tricked and pleasantly so. His newest track takes on a lovely cumbia digital trip well worth having.

What a lovely original nu cumbia this one is, from our good old friend Nixtamal. The melody is very catchy, the bass has that analog synth bass I love and honestly wouldn’t want to live without, and the vocals are also quite lovely.

Colombian Free Mix dishes out the goods often these days. I love following CFM on SoundCloud because I really come across some fun tunes. Here is the latest fun tune now.

Last up is this slideshow of Northern California Bay Area cumbieros Candelaria set to their song Pendejita.

Well mis cumbieros I love you all and am very pleased that I was able to deliver you another Sexxy Saturday… eh… Monday Cumbia.

Peace

Those Lisbon dudes are at it again, here’s a mix showcasing some great sounds coming from there and from the Principe Discos label who were doing earlier variants of Zouk Bass aka Tarraxinha back in 2006!!

Our dude Neki got some real unfair flack in the early days of Moombahton but as time goes on more and more people finally realize just how great his Moombahton edits are, maybe some of the best in existence.  Lest not forget he is also the creator of that beast known as “Silenton” and also “Balkaton”.

As a member of Shazalakazoo, we have released an official EP “Balkaton” and also a free EP that was let loose on Xmas Day 2012.  There’s plenty more to come from them on our label but for now take a step back to and grab these brilliant edits from Neki for free, all 25 of them!!

As you’re aware we released 4 free ep’s this week.

3 Zouk Bass EP’s and 1 Tecnobrega EP.

Grab these quick because we’ll be shutting down downloads in a few days time and spread the word, blog them and share them on your facebook & twitter.

Dave Nada, the godfather of moombahton and 1/2 of Nadastrom, has just unleashed his huge 70 minutes long mixtape as a promo for big moombah gathering that will take place in the birthplace of moombahton – Washington D.C. – on June the 1st. The mixtape has captured this very moment really well – there`s not only moombahton in there, but also some zouk bass as well, the genre that is on the rise as i write this. Check out this 31-track madness:

TRACKLISTING:

01. Justin Timberlake – “Let The Groove Get In” (Sammy Bananas Remix)
02. Ninetoes – “Finder”
03. Peter Horrevorts – “Siren” (Nada’s U Hall Dub)
04. Cousin Culo – “Culo’s Groove”
05. Uproot Andy – “Homenaje”
06. Jon Kwest – “Moombah De Flora”
07. Soho – “Hot Music” (Jon Kwest & Melo Remix)
08. Kingman Fire – “All Aboard”
09. Chooky – “Puta Cabrona”
10. The Wizard ft Nyanda & Chedda – “Like A Pro” (Yellow Claw Flames of the Dutch Lion Remix)
11. Dre Skull – “First Time” (feat. Megan James & Popcaan)
12. Friction & Skream – “Kingpin” (Jay Fay Remix)
13. Jay Fay – “Dibby Dibby”
14. Nadastrom, Gent & Jawns – “Snake Juice”
15. Steve Aoki & Angger Dimas vs Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike – “Phat Brahms” (Bro Safari & UFO! Remix)
16. Craze – “Selekta” (JWLS Remix)
17. Kantana – “Dollar Sign”
18. Buraka – “Zouk Flute” (Nada’s In The Club Edit)
19. Dillon Francis & Diplo ft. Maluca – “Que Que” (Neki Stranac “Zouk Bass” Remix)
20. Red Milk – “Pickaplum”
21. DJ Quality – “Pa’ Mi Crew”
22. Major Lazer – “Get Free”
23. Douster – “Cajon”
24. DJ Steef – “Mekloir” (Nada’s El Baile Vocal Edit)
25. Uproot Andy – “Worldwide Dembow”
26. Sabo – Caliente Dub
27. Sabo & Melo – “Creme e Gusto”
28. Round Table Knights – “I Just Want”
29. Hotbox – “InLove”
30. Vikter Duplaix – “That Night”
31. MeLo-X ft. Jesse Boykins III – “The Perfect Blues (Jacques Greene Remix)