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    The resurrection of Salsa Part III

    February 9th, 2010

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    (Continued from part II)
    Salsa is no longer a mere latin rhythm, it has had a natural evolution, as musicians and people who dance and listen to it, also have an immense source of influences.

    We can have hundreds of great examples added to the ones we have had in PART I or PART II!!! So…I’m just gonna choose few i really think GB people should know and listen to
    DLC is a Salsa-funk mega Band from Berlin

    LA REPUBLICA (as you can listen in their promo they do something they describe as NEO TROPICO) which is a mix of salsa, rock, atlantico, timba, hip hop, pacific folklore all in one HUGE BOMB!!

    for JAZZ/SALSA/CUMBIA LOVERS we have PUERTO CANDELARIA!!! in my humble opinion one of the best (if not the best) ensemble nowadays in Colombia

    Check them live!!

    For DJ’s !!!

    we HAVE THE AMAZING DJ TILLO!!!!!

    And Check HIM DOING HIS SALSA INTRO!!!!!

    That’s the wikiiid universe of our SALSA!!! No boundaries anymore!! From Jazz to funk, from Pacific and Cumbia, to descarga or guaguanco in seconds!!!
    NO WONDER WHY PEOPLE WHO STILL LISTEN TO EROTIC SALSA CAN’T ENJOY THIS RESURRECTION OF SALSA!!

    NOTE:As usual in these kind of posts, many people to talk about, many bands missing, probably the most influential, so i hope people just don’t diss about my salsa post, as i am not a salsa connoisseur, everything i wrote are the bands i know and i listen to, i’d be very please to open more my GB posts to amazing latin fusion music, like recoveco, Buika or a whole post about Puerto Candelaria if you GB people like the idea..
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    SEXXY SATURDAY CUMBIA

    February 6th, 2010

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    It’s that day again, that time, that hour, that post, on that blog…..

    that moment,

    …Sexxy Saturday Cumbia!

    2009 was great for Nu Cumbia, 2010 is gonna be even better…..

    WORLDWIDE DOMINATION :-)

    Today:

    1. DJ ORION

    2. MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND

    3. MR IOSO

    4. MR RIDGZ

    5. LOS MACUANOS

    CUUUMBIAAAAAA!!!!!

    1. DJ ORION

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    No stranger to this blog, DJ ORION returns once again with 2 new tracks:

    Stabbin em (Orion & King Louie) by dj_Orion

    La Burita (Orion Edit) by dj_Orion

    2. MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND

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    M.I.S. back again for the second week running with 3 more new tracks too and an old classic which we posted wayyy backkk!

    This first one is just really my cuppa, going back to the 50’s which our friend BINARY CUMBIA ORCHESTRA does so brilliantly!

    It’s one M.I.S. have done for a Perez Prado Remix album!

    Mambo del Politecnico Perez Prado (Mexican Institute of Sound remix) by MexicanInstituteofSound

    This next one is kinda weird but BRILLIANT!

    Gershon Kingsley vs Mexican Institute Of Sound Jewish Expirience (Mexican Institute Of Sound Mix) by MexicanInstituteofSound

    Here’s a GREAT remix by Ralph Myerz of an M.I.S. track hot off the press, uploaded last night!

    Yo Digo Baila (Ralph Myerz Remix) Mexican Institute Of Sound by MexicanInstituteofSound

    I fancied sticking this next one up again for some of our new followers, it’s an old CLASSSIC!!!!!

    Mexican Institute Of Sound/ Cumbia (Of Love) The Remix by Tom Tom Club by MexicanInstituteofSound

    3. MR IOSO

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    VENEZUELA is great for many things but here’s 2 of my favourites:

    1. Hugo Chavez ..and his Parrot..lol!

    2. Mr Ioso & Sonotech :-)

    We were the first to introduce this guy and his sidekick SONOTECH to the blogosphere world and he’s come back with another great mix comprising almost entirely of SONIDO DEL PRINCIPE jamz and some of his own cutz and some with our Caballo!

    MR Ioso is 1st Generation, Generation Bass Family ;-)

    mr. ioso – cumbia, sonido mágico II by mr. ioso

    01. Sonido Del Principe vs Erikoismies – Aint life a MF
    02. Alika y Nueva Alianza – Para Bailar Cumbia (El Hijo de la cumbia remix)
    03. mr. ioso – bemba kuriara
    04. Sekreto – Gota (El Hijo de la Cumbia Remix)
    05. Sonido del Principe – Systeme Solar (SDP edit)
    06. Sonotech – Guerrilla Amapola
    07. mr. ioso feat. Caballo – Mo Fyah!
    08. Sonido del Principe – Wucumbia
    09. Sonido del Principe feat. Caballo – Cartagena
    10. Sonido del Principe – Cumbia Curry
    11. Black Mandingo – La Cumbia de Giorgio
    12. mr. ioso feat. Sonotech – DA CUMBIA
    13. Sonidero Cordobestia – Maria Candela
    14. Son nacional – Roc Boyz (SDP edit)
    15. Illya Kuriaki – Jaguar House (Toy Selectah 20.08 Refix)
    16. Charles Trees – It’s The&

    4. MR RIDGZ

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    ALERT……Let off the sirens!!!!!

    New Kid on Da Cumbia Block..lol

    What’s up my name is Ivan Rodriguez, I’m am one of the gutarrists of Koñorteño a band Based in Tijuana, Mx by way of San Diego, Ca.

    I’ll be posting up some remixes, original and comissioned tracks I make to share with you guys. Some tracks are from an alternate project I have “El Hijo De La Diabla” where I mix a little cumbia, vallenato, hiphop, dub, funk etc etc… hope you enjoy the music!

    La Pollera colorada – El Hijo de La Diabla (El Pollo Loco Rmx) by MrRDGZ

    Pon de floor – Major Lazer (Hijo de la Diabla Rmx) by MrRDGZ

    La suma de todos – Koñorteño by MrRDGZ

    Notas Tristes – Koñorteño by MrRDGZ

    Andres ese es – El Hijo De La Diabla (Mixtape sample track) by MrRDGZ

    5. LOS MACUANOS

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    Again, guys we covered here a little while back and they’ve just come up with this AMAZZING Promo mix, I REALLY, REALLY LOOOOVE this one!

    One of the BEST starts to a Nu Cumbia Mix I’ve ever heard!

    El Fin (Promo Mix 2010) by LosMacuanos


    AFRICANSTEP!! watch out black mamba!!

    February 3rd, 2010

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    Charmeur de serpents or the SNAKE CHARMER is one of those guys we listen on the radio (every single country has one)who make us to ask: “where the hell this guy is getting this music?”

    and you keep listening the radio show just to know who the artist was…althought he’s in belgium his music is global!!!
    He has done of the most significant AfricanStep we have posted here..

    THIS ONE IS HOT!!!! AND LIMITED!!!!!!!!!!! HOT and i mean A WAY HOT!! let me tell ya who is in this mix:douster!!!!, king cannibal!!!, that wicked track from so shifty!!!! that one is so far one of the hottest tunes of 2010 also Schlachthofbronx feat Spoek Mathambo & Gnucci Banana, KuBo and Relic’s dubstep from Nit Grit’s babylon!! and more MUCH MORE!!!
    Thanks and Big UP to the DJ and A&R for Global Warning Records for doing a SICK and awesome
    AFRICANSTEP MIX as
    TSC – Africanstep mix for GenerationBass by The Snake Charmer
    NGUZUNGUZU – El bebe ambiente
    King Cannibal – Virgo (Canblaster remix)
    N.B. Funky – Riddim Box
    Julio Bashmore – Um bongo’s revenge
    Mosca – Square One (Roska remix)
    Busy Signal & Machel Montano – Whoiii gal whoii (Docjes remix)
    Poirier – Marathon
    Douster feat. Spoek – Punani (Arcade remix)
    South Rakkas Crew feat. Capleton – Bun Up 3000 (Schlachthofbronx remix)
    Poirier – Coco drunk
    So Shifty feat Ward 21 & Natalie Storm – Clap
    Bunji Garlin – Fire now (Mr. Leub Jumeirah riddim uk funky remix)
    Lady Chann – Eye too fast
    Sharooz – Saccharin (SonicC remix)
    Dakunt – T’as surdou Dakunt (Lorcan remix)
    Wildlife! – Jumbie
    Ku Bo – And you (Dj Manaia remix)
    Douster – Journey to Tethys sea
    Schlachthofbronx feat Spoek Mathambo & Gnucci Banana – Ayoba
    Schlachthofbronx – Sai Safarada
    Acidkids – Big Foot feat Marina (Schlachthofbronx)
    Baobinga & ID – Man Down
    King Cannibal – So… Embrace the minimum
    Relic & Caballo – Babylon

    In case you want sum more fire!!!!!
    Africanstep Vol2
    The Snake Charmer – Africanstep vol.2 by The Snake Charmer


    DUBSTEP MONDAY MASSIVE!!!

    February 1st, 2010

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    DUBSTEP MONDAY @ GENERATION BASS

    Tonight we have:

    1. VILLAGE KOLLEKTIV

    2. FISH FINGER/CONNECTIONIST

    3. AKIRA KITESHI

    4. SOFT WASP

    5. JAYDOT

    6. NOVA

    7. SUBATOMIC SOUND SYSTEM

    8. DJ STYTE

    9. BASSADOR

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    VILLAGE KOLLEKTIV

    Let’s start with something I’m being credited as having helped to define as a possible new sub-genre TRANSNATIONAL DUBSTEP.

    I came out with this new name only 2 months ago but it’s already starting to become adopted by a whole new swathe of Dubstep producers who are lapping up the term.

    Plus the existing Dubstep producers who were creating these vibes but finding it difficult just to classify it as merely Dubstep are now re-classifying their music as Transnational Dubstep :-)

    Even Wikipedia has quoted it in connection with how I chose to define the music of Liquid Stranger, see HERE.

    So what is Transnational Dubstep?  Well it’s essentially Dubstep that has an ethnic inflexion about it, be it Indian, Arabic, South American etc etc or as in this case here, Balkan.

    And wow, I’ve created a term to define a sub-genre…lmfao…

    So what Transnational Dubstep do we have here with this Balkan track, well it’s by Village Kollektiv who define it as SIDESTEP but they might now re-classify it after reading this!!!!

    It’s a very cool track called Nazad – VK Sidestep version.

    In fact you can download the whole EP release which includes a SHAZALAKAZOO remix too from HERE.

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    FISH FINGER

    This guy FISH FINGER from Santa Cruz, USA was brought to my attention by my good friend Maria a.k.a. “CONNECTIONIST” one of the UK’s leading Dubstep Princesses.  She uses mostly vinyl and always mixes it up live, no computers/software for our Dubstep Princess.

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    I first heard him on her radio show and immediately asked her who this guy was.  You can catch/download her show of last night HERE:

    CONNECTIONIST ON RANGE FM.

    Check out his stuff cause I really, really rate him.

    Richie Spice – Marijuana (Fish Finger & Sparc Reroll) by Fish Finger

    DOWNLOADS

    Spike Jones - My Two Front Teeth - (The Builder & Fish Finger Remix)

    Alex Duncan – No More Trouble (Fish Finger & Lil Rhino Remix)

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    AKIRA KITESHI

    Again we come back to Akira Kiteshi.

    Most recently I stuck up one of his free albums and got a bit of flack from peeps saying it was hardly something that could define Akira Kiteshi.

    Well whilst I agree with that to an extent, he did make the album and it is Akira Kiteshi and so of course it defines an aspect of what he does but yes, ok, not that other aspect that we all love AK for, that is, DUBSTEP!

    My excuse, well he had no free downloads and so how could I show that part cause all our readers like downloads and not streamers…lol

    Well, that’s all changed now and you can grab yourself some BRILLIANT tracks showcasing the AK we all love him most for…DIRRRTY DUBSTEP!!!

    DZ – Just Rollin (Akira Kiteshi Rmx) by Akira Kiteshi

    Stagga – Timewarp Dub – Akira Kiteshi Refix by Akira Kiteshi

    Bird Peterson – Zutopong – Akira Kiteshi VIP by Akira Kiteshi

    All the downloads ran out but you can grab 2 of them here:

    STAGGA – TIMEWARP DUB – AKIRA KITESHI RE-FIX-1

    DZ – Just Rollin (Akira Kiteshi Rmx)


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    SOFT WASP

    This guy SOFT WASP makes what seems like a tune a day and they’re always interesting to listen to.  Not always my cuppa but some I really, really love.  He’s completely unpredictable……

    …..you never know what he’s building in there….

    More often than not though he comes up trumps!

    So check out our Soft Wasp, he only bites once and then YOU die!

    Try by Soft Wasp

    Piss or get off the pot by Soft Wasp

    DON’T WALK AWAY by Soft Wasp


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    JAYDOT

    What can I say except that this is quite a decent unofficial remix of a Delerium track and so grab it!

    Delerium-Silence (jaydot dubstep remix) by jaydot


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    NOVA

    My favourite PUNKSTEP band are back with another freebie and this time they aim towards a TRANSNATIONAL PUNKSTEP vibe..ahahaha..

    Check it out for yourself, it’s unique!!!

    NOVA – Bruken Shoes by Punkstep

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    SUBATOMIC SOUND SYSTEM

    Checked these guys out after they left a comment on one of Caballo’s posts.

    This is TRANSNATIONAL DUB as opposed to Dubstep with a real old skool DUB FLAVA permeating the whole track.

    They reckon it’s quite Middle Eastern sounding but I’d say it only has the feintest hint of a Middle Eastern flava.  More so in the Jewish tradition with those familiar guitar lines that most of us nowadays associate with bands like Balkan Beat Box and Soulico.

    Subatomic Sound System – Our Father, Our King (Middle East Dub) [7" mix] by Planet Dub Tour 2010

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    DJ STYTE

    A remix by DJ STYTE of an infamous BORGORE track and it’s quite good!

    BORGORE – FOES (STYTE’S HEAVY BANGER RMX) by DJ STYTE

    Downloads ran out again and so grab one of them here:

    BORGORE – FOES (STYTE RMX)_1

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    BASSADOR

    A couple of tracks here by Germany’s BASSADOR and I really, really like these.  Good tracks for an opening or warm up dj set anywhere.

    Bassador – Deep Throat by BASSADOR

    Bassador – I Hate Barbie by BASSADOR


    PALENQUE RECORDS WORLD X-CLUSIVE for GB!!

    February 1st, 2010

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    I bet most of us have seen, heard, bought or downloaded some of the “world music” (hate that name) from PUTUMAYO, LUAKA BOP or ANTI records.

    However, fewer of us have heard about one lil’ label called PALENQUE RECORDS which has the most significant afropercussion and champeta artist in Latin America, and home of one the best bands in the whole world, sexteto tabala de palenque, who are without any doubt the deepest roots and first masters of everything we know now as cumbia and tambora.


    Lucas Silva is a film maker and producer, owner and CEO of Palenque Records, and a great humble guy who took a break in his agenda to give GB and the whole world an interview and drop some of the finest acts from Colombia

    GB: WHEN AND WHY DID YOU START PALENQUE RECORDS?

    Lucas silva:I started palenque records in 1996 , recording the first album ever by Sexteto tabala, in a yard in Palenque – I’m originally a filmmaker , but music has always been my passion — during the shooting of my films I met lots of great afro-colombian artists living in misery , then I thought , If I don’t produce them , nobody will do ! So I started my label like that ..I didn’t know anything about music or the business..I just did it , cause it was urgent !

    Why release the film and the records in france and europe, not USA?

    LS:I don’t give a shit about Usa….I’m interested in African culture and I think Paris is a great place for that ..as Paris is the capital of Africa in Europe, and a place to meet lots of different people n’ world music ( I don’t like that name either but anyway…) works better in France and Europe that in USA, and there are better labels in Europe, in my opinion …..

    GB:Do you think European people like this music because it sounds tribal, and exotic, made by direct slave descendants and not what it really is?


    LS:Maybe, but also some Colombian people, and they look at their own music in an exotic way –Colombia is a very racist country, anyway…the colonial mentality is strong and people don’t even wanna get aware of that.

    In Europe I found more interest and aid/help for this music, than anywhere in Colombia until now. But things are changing in Colombia now, afro colombian music & culture is more recognized

    GB:LET’S TALK ABOUT CUMBIA

    I’m sure you are already familiar with the neo cumbia fever all over the world, what do you think about this movement?

    LS: Cool , they should keep on developing their music – cuz we’re now with champeta!-man just say to everybody : We’re coming soon to put everything upside down with some new music.

    I’m going to release in UK –so Champeta people of the world wait the attack anytime soon! – a new revolution is comin ‘ !! THIS IS WHAT WE ARE DOING NOW!!!



    GB:Sweet loco!! We can’t wait..Now, going back to san basilio,what real “cumbiamberos” or people from palenque think about this?

    LS:They just don’t care…the range of music they listen is very large…but they are kinda indifferent about it –culturally talking , its really far away from the music they like..

    GB:If you ask Colombian musicians,not only from cumbia, vallenato, but also from rock and fusion, they all have a huge respect for those masters palenqueros, like sexteto tabala, gaiteros de san jacinto, and now the africolombia and son palenque, so why they don’t get the recognition they deserve from the radio station or the newspapers?

    LS:Because Colombia is a crazy democracy …the first who ever did a record of tabala was me….and I did it because I strongly believe that if haven’t done it , nobody would have done it – Palenque records has released til now :

    The first record of Sexteto Tabala
    First record of alegres ambulancias
    First solo album by paulino salgado batata
    First champeta compilation , released in Europe (France) and distributed everywhere

    That’s why we are the pioneers of afro-colombian music, and nobody has done what we have done – we can be proud of that, but in the other side of it we’d like to have more competition, or more people working , doing new independent labels.

    GB: I know, Back in the days, when Discos Fuentes, had the most significant cumbia players and the best tropical catalog in the whole planet, why they didn’t have ANY from the amazing stuff or artist you have in Palenque records if some of these guys are 70 years old and even older?

    LS:Because records labels in Colombia have always forgotten the best part of being in a label – and because that’s my job , or not my job I mean it is my passion, to look for unknown artists, to do research , go to the villages or the big cities looking for them – record labels in Colombia have been blind about many aspects of our cultural identity – the only solution , the only real hope for Colombian music, it’s independent labels.

    GB:How was the experience to produce and record, Paulino Salgado a.k.a Batata?

    LS:Amazing, unforgettable, mystical , a real kinda crazy experience – as jimmy Hendrix says : are you experienced ?? I experienced that , and for me it was a honor to have worked with the KING OF KINGS, the royal master of musical societies everywhere…Paulino salgado batata


    GB:And recording the sexteto tabala?

    LS:Recording with tabala is another strong experience…. Their music is like a river , the river of history and poetry , and fighting for this band and for their great music, it’s simply a great pleasure for me,

    GB:Batata, now is seen as the Godfather of colombian afropercussion, he wasn’t famous back in the days, so why he became that influential?

    LS:He became that influential because he was one the highest graded teachers ever on the afro-colombian percussion –he became that famous because he was a big master even from his childhood , a kind of afro-colombian johnny lee hooker , or muddy waters..

    NOW LET’S TALK ABOUT CHAMPETA!!

    GB:why is Champeta seen like a low profile music?
    it doesn’t have to be with the fact that most of the artist and public is afro-colombian, or does it?

    LS:Yeah ….it has a lot to do with the fact that is was a black ghetto music in the beginning, now it’s not only black of course, is a Caribbean costeno thing also…but colombia is still a post-colonial apartheid society ,and a cruel country with his best sons. champeta has been forbidden many times, and the sound systems have been attacked by hundreds of politicians and local administrations.

    GB:in most of posh or rich clubs in bogota, people find, sort of hip (funny) to dance champeta and cumbia these days, does it make it easier for real champeteros to become mainstream?

    LS:It is a process that would take longtime…as it as all about putting two different societies together —

    GB:probably you don’t know, but here in GB, we released an Electro-Champeta few weeks ago, it was the first original electrochampeta loyal to the african roots like soukous and calypso, what do you think people from cartagena would think about it?

    LS:People in Cartagena and the Caribbean are great melomanos, musical collectors, and they have a great ear, and knowledge of music — you should test your music over there!

    When can we have a listen to the new sexteto tabala single?

    Very sooon, Palenque Records is releasing their new album in about one month – we will send you an exclusive pre-release theme!!!

    Now, and final question, is there any chance for Caballo, to get into those amazing compilation you do?

    Keep on working in your music , and maybe in the future…it is the music that command us , we are just instruments of it …!

    LS:FINALLY, I HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE NEWS FOR YOU ALL—

    I have the honor of working with one of the greatest english labels now : SOUND WAY RECORDS

    PALENQUE RECORDS TOGETHER WITH LABEL “SOUND WAY “ –ARE RELEASING AN AFRO-COLOMBIAN COMPILATION VERY SOON , IN APRIL

    THE RECORDS IS CALLED :::::

    “Palenque, Palenque: ChampetaCriolla and Afro Roots in coastal Colombia 1975-85” compiled by Miles Cleret and Lucas Silva – Dj champeta-man original

    FOR ALL MUSIC LOVERS , THIS IS GOING TO BE A CLASSIC , ONE OF THE VERY BEST ALBUMS OF THIS YEAR WE CAN TELL….with THE first afrobeat tunes recorded in COLOMBIA

    WITH THIS RECORD YOU ALL GONNA UNDERSTAND WHY , COLOMBIA IS THE FIRST AFROBEAT NATION OUTSIDE AFRICA ¡! And see the whole history of this..


    500.000 VISITORS = FREE SDP ALBUM!!!!

    January 19th, 2010

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    YEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We just reached the magic number of 500.000 visitors on GB man! CRAZY! Thanks so much to all of you, from all of us! Instead of having one winner, who was the 500.00th, we wanted to give something back to you all, and thought this would be the perfect occasion for me to drop a FREE SONIDO DEL PRINCIPE album, with a bunch of dubs & edits, all in shiny 320 Quality! one of 4 more albumsto come the next couple of months, by the way…

    Thanks to my buddies UMB, CABALLO, ZUZUKA, STICKY & all other contributors that pass us the tracks that we share with you. Thanks for dropping by guys & girls, this one goes out to all of you!

    SONIDO DEL PRINCIPE
    “DUBS & EDITS vol.1″

    free release for GENERATION BASS!

    01. marcelo fabian – sel de mar (SDP EDIT)
    02. sonido del principe – wu cumbia
    03. systeme solar – unknown track (SDP EDIT)
    04. fauna – mira (SDP REMIX)
    05. sonido del principe vs horace andy – watch dem
    06. sonidero nacional- roc boyz (SDP EDIT)
    07. sonido del principe vs erikoismies – aint life a mf
    08. sonido del principe – sexy rod dub
    09. a tribe called quest vs sdp – bonita applebum
    10. sonido delprincipe vs prince – if I was your girlfriend

    DOWNLOAD LINK HERE (RAR FILE)
    DOWNLOAD LINK 2 HERE (ZIP FILE) 

    massive r.e.s.p.e.c.t to everyone I knicked a sound from, to the cumbia originators (u know who u are) and everyone
    that has taken an interest in my cumbias. special thanks to Maga Bo, Sascha, Vampiros Deejay, Dj Umb, Caballo and Sonido Martines, who started my journey into this fantastic music and my friends at Generation Bass, Bersa Discos, ZZK and other blogs for posting and releasing my stuff and helping me spread the word. look out for parts 2,3 & 4! coming soon on:

    http://generationbass.com

    CUMBIA 4 LIFE!
    GENERATION BASS 4LIFE!


    LISANDRO MEZA : THE GODFATHER!

    January 17th, 2010

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    This, I liberated straight from our homie, SOUNDGOODS, word for word, track for track, fullstop to fullstop…. but the pic is mine..(ok, Coppola’s)…lol

    Plus Caballo is gonna gatecrash my party further below, with full welcome, cause man he understands Colombian music much better than I ever could.

    He’s gonna re-post that “INFAMOUS CUMBIANIZED” Fela Kuti cover of “Shakara” which I posted last year and that post was tweeted by none other than RIVA STARR & SAMIM!!!

    Some of you have been on my case about this track and requesting it again because the previous link is broken.  Broken cause we changed servers and I couldn’t be arsed to re-up it..lol.  But it’s here again, better late than never.

    Plus he’s gonna dig deeper into the “MEZA” psyche showcasing more of this man’s revolutionary take on Cumbia music!

    Who knows, Michael Stipe from R.E.M. might just end up tweeting this one…lol…:-)

    OVER TO SOUNDGOODS:

    Lisandro Meza is one of Colombia’s most recognized Cumbia artists and played an important role in the evolution of Cumbia. He plays accordion, sings, and composes and is a master of vallenato sabanero, an accordion-driven style of music that originated in Mexico. He is one of the founding members of one of Colombia’s most popular bands in the 1960s, Los Corraleros De Majagual, but later focused on his solo career.

    Here are some of his songs:

    Lisandro Mesa – Los Lamentos (Download or listen)

    Lisandro Mesa – El Anticristo (Download or listen)

    Lisandro Mesa – El Siete (Download or listen)

    Lisandro Mesa – Puerto Madero (Download or listen)

    Lisandro Mesa – Senderito de amor (Download or listen)

    Lisandro Mesa – El Viagra (Download or listen)

    Lisandro Mesa – El Mono (Download or listen)

    Lisandro Mesa – A Bailar el Meneito (Download or listen)

    OVER TO YOU MY BRO’ FROM ANOTHER MO’

    NOW >> CABALLO CRASHING THIS PARTY!!! cuz i mean it was a LISANDRO post..but what’s the whole deal ..why is he that awesome?

    he’s really influential in the whole game by giving cumbia and vallenato a different approach

    Cumbiafunky: SHACALAO

    HELL YEAH!! That was a Fela kuti funky cumbia cover..

    BUT LISANDRO HAS DONE ELECTROCUMBIA way before the NEO CUMBIA BOOM!!(not a remix..we mean f’real!!

    he  actually recorded this next song and the guy was born in 1939!!!)

    His attempt of Asian cumbia back in 70’s
    Cumbia p’a Oriente – Lisandro Mesa by Canalh

    AND HERE’S A LIST OF THE MUSIC YOU SHOULD ‘download ;) ” FROM HIM!!
    Lisandro Meza – El Polvorete
    This song was also covered by VICENTE FERNANDEZ

    Lisandro with los hijos de la niña luz

    LA CUMBIA DEL AMOR

    EL HIJO DE TUTA

    TAKE UR TIME AND LISTEN TO 666 the antichrist!!

    EL SIETE

    mi carrito


    FRIDAY NIGHT DJ MIXFEST

    January 15th, 2010

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    It’s Generation Bass (as in ‘base’ and not the fish) and it’s Friday Night, it can only mean one thing, DJ Mixfesssssssst!

    DJ FLETCHER

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    This mix might just turn out to be one of my favourite mixes of this year, it’s original, unique, contains good source material and is quite inventive and the flow is cool. Oh, it also includes tracks by Beats Antique, a band I really love and who I have worked with in the past on a couple of my compilation releases as Shisha Sound System.

    It’s by a guy called FLETCHER who comes from South Afreaka!!!

    I LOVE it and I’m sure you will do too!!!

    Unfortunately the only downside is that it’s not downloadable!!!!  Why some DJ’s still insist on not allowing downloads in this day and age is beyond my comprehension but he can be forgiven for that cause the mix ROCKS!!!

    Crunk Up The Dub Mix by fletcher

    01 7FT Soundsytem – Piped Piper – Cape Town
    02 Beats Antique feat Fanfarra Kalashnikov – Oriental Uno – Oakland
    03 Poirier feat Face T – Wha La La Leng [Maga Bo Remix] – Montreal
    04 Narchi – Bam Bam Remix – Cape Town
    05 Dj C feat Mims / Jnr Reid / Cham – This Is A Stage Show – Boston
    06 Mix n Blend – Full Ahead [Krushed & Sorted Remix] – Cape Town
    07 Noah D feat Anthony B – Good Sound – Portland
    08 Fletcher – Elektro Riddim – Cape Town
    09 Breakage feat Roots Manuva – Run ‘Em out – London
    10 Narchi – Squelch This – Cape Town
    11 Dj C feat Quality Diamond – Let It Billie – Portland
    12 Mr Sakitumi – Secret Asian Man (Live @ Earthdance) – Cape Town
    13 Beats Antique feat Sweet Snacks – Extra Extra – Oakland
    14 P.H.Fat – Big Five [Liver Remix] – Cape Town
    15 T.O.B – 5 And A Half Steps – Cape Town
    16 Jahdan Blackamoore – Let’s Go – Brooklyn
    17 Narchi – Skeletons – Cape Town
    18 Vent – Itchy Feet – London
    19 Artista Desconhecido – Coco Desconhecido [Maga Bo remix] – Rio De Janeiro
    20 Mix n Blend – Sik Wid It [Biscope Remix] – Cape Town

    DOMA TORNADOS

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    Great new mix from our homie Doma….this is just PERCUSSION HEAVEN!!!!!

    Some of you peeps know just how much I love my percussion!

    You will barely recognise some of the original tracks cause he’s just percussi-fried (nu made up word in true GB style) dem but they sound RAD!

    Dame Tornados by domatornados

    Tracks+loops+midi clips+live percussion+ fx

    1.Rede (Doma Tornados remix)
    2.Poppin (Schlachtofbronx) + Subamos (Doma Tornados)
    3.Subamos-edit version (Doma Tornados)
    4.What da fuck (J.Sanza) + Cuantico (Sustainer)
    5.Mad Drumz (Dj Master D/Nguzunguzu refix)+ Sambador (Natema)
    6.Crackish (Ms. Dynamite&Geenius) + Marioneta (Vandelklang)
    7.Marioneta (Vandelklang)+ Hasret (Omar Faruk Tekbilek) + Ridim (Sheikha Rimitti) + Mentiras (Los Amigos Invisibles)
    8.Pura Sangre (Pura) + Sambador (Natema)
    9.Sambador (Natema) (Doma Tornados refix)
    10.Phoenix City (Yamaha vs Electrico_Doma refix)
    Released by: www.hipidukimuzik.com

    VIVI PEDRAGLIO

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    Anybody who knew me (UMB) before Generation Bass will know I had around 10 commercial compilation releases which are still available worldwide.

    3 of those were Tango compilations soaking in the Nu Tango scene and some of the trad stuff too.

    One of my most exciting new discoveries during that period of Electro Tango was a beautiful young woman from Argentina called Vivi Pedraglio and I licensed a bunch of her material for the compilations. She has since become a good friend of mine and is simply now known to me as “VIVI BABY”.

    Not only does Vivi create Electro Tango masterpieces but she also does a variety of other stuff too under her other alter- ego’s, DIAMANDA (Club) and HIJAS DEL RIGOR (Experimental/Downtemp/Ambient).

    Here’s a gorgeous downtempo mix she laid down a couple of years back and please do go to her My Space to check out her Electro Tango stuff cause it’s awesome.

    Set soundcloud hdr by Vivipedraglio

    SONORA

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    Caballo covered this guy earlier in the week and here’s a great new mix from him.

    Sonora – Sonido Mundial Mix by SONORAAA

    WAER ROCK

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    Waer Rock always comes up with interesting material for his mixes and this one ain’t no different, made up wholly of unreleased and exclusive material, which as a head start always makes a mix interesting even before you’ve heard it.

    Beats and Bass: NYght Out by Waer Rock

    CELT ISLAM

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    Here’s a mix that Celt Islam did for the BBC a little while back showcasing mostly his own dark and unique SUFI DUB tunes and some dark drum and bass junglism too.

    It’s a mind-bender!!!

    WORLD ODDYSSEY MIX by CELT ISLAM by Celt Islam


    TOMMI BENDERS

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    Is Tommi a Bender? who cares but he does brilliant Balkan Nights in Amsterdam.

    Here’s his latest Balkan mix soaking in the real atmosphere on one of his nights and staying true to the more trad and gypsy punk style stuff as opposed to bastardized watered down club stuff, which I usually do..lol

    On request a new mixtape with just “BALKAN”-music…it ended up in a sorta “greatest hits/best of..”, so it gives an impression of the balkanparty scene in the Netherlands..

    TRACKLIST
    C-MON & KYPSKI – circus
    SHANTEL – bucovina dub rmx
    VV – musika dika
    MALA VITA – el cerbrero
    GOGOL BORDELLO – sally
    LA CARAVANE PASSE – takakadikki
    ACQUINA DROM – tessaloniki
    AMSTERDAM KLEZMER BAND – a chassid in amsterdam
    DOBRANOTCH – fun der huppe
    MAGNIFICO – hir i kum hir i go
    BIJELO DUGME – rok n roll
    DELADAP – goldregen (noha rmx)
    RIVA STARR – i was drunk
    GORAN BREGOVIC – prostitutke (samrabam rmx)
    ESMA – chaje shukarija
    OSTBLOCKET – rumania
    FANFARE CIOCARLIA – hora cu strigaturii

    DJ GREENFLY

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    DJ Greenfly has done the right thing and moved on to Dubstep and Half-Step.

    So here’s a really listenable Dubstep mix with shades of Half-Step thrown in, the latter created by our very own Ghosryda and so of course as he’s the only guy currently doing Half-Step, those are his tracks in the mix.

    Get this player from Fairtilizer!

    Tracklisting:

    ronit rasta-dvash ori schochat alarm
    spoon-the ghost of you lingers (gavin holland bootleg)
    FLECK-MERDA
    kode 9-skeng
    parker-wher’s my monkey
    ghosryda-only truth
    ghosryda vs ben venom-flesh eater halstep
    pirate sound system-my dimension
    kode 9- 2 far gone


    Dub war & Raw Bud

    January 14th, 2010

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    Probably some of you already know I (CABALLO) started my musical “career” as a death metal vocalist in the 90’s, and eventually began singing more and more to “electro hybrids” thanks to industrial, punk, hardcore and gothic metal late 90’s… few bands from the metal scene made me try to explore where they got that originality from their influences.

    The first one was DUBWAR

    Dub War were formed in the town of Newport, South Wales in 1993,Their extra-ordinary blend of ragga/rap/punk & metal soon earned them a reputation across the world.

    Dub War soon began to gain a reputation for a unique live performance, mainly due to Benji’s madman adlib. Several singles were released from Pain, including Gorrit & the now legendary Strike it.

    watch it!

    later DUBWAR split due differences with their record label , so Benji Webbe & Co formed SKINDRED

    and finally HIT THE JACKPOT they deserved!!

    Check their Vampire Killa

    or this amazing Eddy Grant’s ELECTRIC AVENUE cover!!

    Raw Bud a project made up of 3 former members of the raggae, rap, punk and metal band Dub War (Raw Bud spelled backwards) and Skindred, made a RONI SIZE antiremix “Rise Up”.

    So i bet u r saying..What’s the link btw Metal and GB post? quite simple After Dubwar’s Step ta dis, Caballo (the one who posts here) was not the same ..lol

    Dubwar’s remixes and BONG RA’s collaboration with Benji

    grab this sweet tune from Dub War remixes era!!
    05) attica blues strike it

    03) aphrodite nations -Aphrodite remix


    SUNDAY NIGHT TRACKFEST

    January 10th, 2010

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    HOUSEKEEPING:

    Ok, we’ve had a bit of a winter clean up at the blog and as you might have noticed this week, we’ve had a change around in connection with posting times and number of posts.

    We’ve had a lot of people saying they just simply cannot keep up with our MAAAD number of posts and consequently lots of things fall beneath the radar which is a little unfair to the artists that we put up here.

    So from Monday last week we have been posting only 3 times a day, Caballo in the morning, Vince in the afternoon and me in the evening!!!!

    Three muskeeteers, 1 post each…hahahah..lol…this will be the regular routine for the moment until we see how it goes.

    Hipi and Zuzuka, Sticky K and Frederic will be dropping things in as and when.

    TRACKFEST

    So, as there are so many tracks to post that we just simply cannot fit in anymore, I’ll be doing a regular weekly trackfest round up whenever it is needed.  Might be every Sunday night, could fall on another night or might not happen at all some weeks, flexibility is the key!

    PLEASE NOTE:

    These tracks have not been grouped together cause their bargain basement fodder or any shit like that!!!

    THEY ARE TOP QUALITY TRACKS!!!

    SO LET THE GAMES COMMENCE…..

    DJ ALTA JOYA

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    One of my favourite gals..drops some JOYASTEP!

    Aguar by Alta Joya

    FLORE:

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    Flore is on fire with this track!

    FEEL ME FLORE RMX by flore

    AND HERE’S THE VERY. VERY HOTTT..HOTTT…HOTTT….VID…SO HOTTT THAT MTV BANNED IT!!!!


    Botchit & Scarper on MUZU


    ELITE FORCE

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    MARFLIXONE – SOCA PRODUCTIONS:

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    Great stuff from the MASHUP CREW

    Soca productions by marflixone

    COUNTRY BALKAN PUNK:

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    Supertheory of SuperEverything (cover of gogol bordello) – The Hectics by the hectics

    BOYZ NOISE

    Get this player from Fairtilizer!


    PEO DE PITTE – RIVERSIDE BOOTLEG:

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    Here’ a hot bootleg courtesy of PEO DE PITTE whose been getting massive support from the likes of BBC Radio1, Kiss100, Sinden, Fake Blood, Crookers, James Zabiela, Kissy Sell Out, Elite Force, Plump DJ’s, Afrojack and others…

    Peo De Pitte aka Peo Häggström hails from the city of Stockholm, Sweden. After moving to London Peo have also been running his very own label FlatOut Records, the main home for releases of his two aliases Peo de Pitte and Haggstrom.

    His trademark combination of rare groove beats and cutting edge synth action has resulted in making Peo one of the most exciting new producers to emerge. With remixes and releases on labels including Fingerlickin’, Global Underground, LOT49, U&A and Champion Records it is no surprise that he has won huge support worldwide.

    Here’s 2 versions of the Riverside bootleg:

    The Sidney Samson – Riverside – Peo de Pitte  RERUB + DUB

    320 DL

    Sidney Samson – Riverside – Peo de Pitte Rerub

    Sidney Samson – Riverside – Peo de PitteDUB