TODAY:

1.DJ KOX TORTUGA

2. MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND

3. DJ QUILOMBO

4. LUCAS LUISAO

5. SOME VINTAGE STUFF

DJ KOX TORTUGA

Covered him briefly on last week’s Sexxy Saturday Cumbia post too.

He is the host of Dubtronik Radio, former member of KOXMOZ and our good mate Juan Data did a more extensive post on him recently which you can read at his HARD DATA BLOG.

In the past couple of years, DJ Kox Tortuga has also started exploring cumbia and blending it into his trademark cosmic-dub sound (some of his unreleased cumbia remixes can be heard in Juan Data’s megamixes).

Recently he was featured in the Agrupación Mamanis remix-tribute album with a remix of the Cucumelo song.

Here’s a long DJ set of his where he mixes cumbia and dub, it’s over an hour long and it’s called Sonido En Motado.

Download Here

Also here’s a new cumbia track he sent to me last week, it’s a DEMO but grab it for free download:

WEWEWEPA _-DJKOXTORTUGA-4DEMO2010

MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND

Our Sexxy Saturday Cumbia record-breakers…..”I’m a record breaker…” (Keith Chegwin stylee..lol.)

Some great remixes here in the unique M.I.S. style of stuff by the likes of Placebo and Pinkertones cumbianized!!!

The Pinkertones/Karma Party remixed by The Mexican Institute of Sound by MexicanInstituteofSound

Visions-Sonido Lasser Drakkar remixed by the Mexican Institute of Sound by MexicanInstituteofSound

Placebo-This Picture (Mexican Institute of Sound) by MexicanInstituteofSound

DJ QUILOMBO

El Sonidero Quilombo is a festive soundsystem which merges dancehall, cumbia, balkan beat and patxanga and their purpose is to make the masses sweat on the dancefloor.

And that is all I can tell you AND man it’s HOTTT!

Linda muñequita (quilombo rmx) by dj quilombo

Cumbia rockers 9 by dj quilombo

El cumbia message (the mensaje) by dj quilombo

Cumbia rockers 8 by dj quilombo
Cumbia rockers 7 by dj quilombo

Cumbia rockers 6 by dj quilombo

If you like it, grab some more at their SC page!

LUCAS LUISAO

From Argentina’s CABEZA NET LABEL, here’s some great CUMBIA DANCEHALL and CUMBIA STEP!

Bambass by lucasluisao

La Poli by lucasluisao

Villa Cumbiera by lucasluisao

Andate! – TTM vs Plastician – Luisao Bootleg by lucasluisao

La Poli by lucasluisao

VINTAGE CUMBIA

Some vintage Columbian Tropical Cumbia here, I think, not sure, no info on the tracks, no info on the guy who uploaded them, maybe one of you could shed some light on the music?

I’m sure it’s Colombian stuff from the 70’s?

One, a streamer only and the other a free download!

18 – El combo de las estrellas – Piel de luna by BABA93260

06 – Gil altamar – Tierra mia by BABA93260

Cherman (a.k.a german de souza) is an Argentinian living in Barcelona who had been working on several projects under the radar, one of those projects is a blog called newtonlaspelotas; in where I found I great selection of cumbiastep/ downtempo/ mash ups made by him!

I had to admit one he has used of my favorite spanish singers La Mala Rodriguez in a clever way blending her with Sr coconut,and if you haven’t listened to her, she is one of the coolest mc’s from spain, even labeled in machete records  (I guess in the Toy Selectah era) then she went really mainstream..

People who started listening cumbia recently should know;  or perhaps haven’t noticed yet, (even if you are a  neo-cumbia lover!!) is that there’s a difference between cumbias (colombian, mexican, argentinian and venezuelan) and he does a special approach to cumbia on this cumbia-step from the cumbia villera point of view.

But what really sold me this mash up wasn’t a cumbia, in fact was something quite different; a mash-up using the amazing track let’s push things forward from  The streets‘ brilliant album original pirate material and blended it with against all odds from Chase and Status from from their More than A lot.

Superpuesto by cherman

Cumbia Mashup by cherman

Uselful info for the people who like to know how this album was created. It was made on real time using traktor + evolutionx sessions download it HERE.