Frikstailers | Baile Frik

January 28th, 2009 Stu

When I first blogged about Frikstailers back in 2007, it was clear that something frisky was being dunked in the water in Argentina. Laid out in front of us, we had a seemingly endless outpouring of twitchy, fidget electro from the very same territory that was simultaneously bombarding us with chopped and screwed re-cuts of old school cumbia. Ralf & Sandro Lee’s latest EP is once again a prime example of South American genre-bending, brandishing a clear lack of concern when it comes to demolishing borders.

‘Baile Frik’ takes funk carioca as its starting point, however the familiar tamborzao rhythm is soon locked in a tussle with Frikstailer’s ruthless scalpel, and partway into the journey, the drum machine pads return to their roots – acknowledging a four-decade old debt by introducing some decidedly Kraftwerkian interplay. Elsewhere on the EP, rising boy-wonder Fulgeance adds a remix under his Peter Digital Orchestra guise, and there’s two Frikstailers rerubs of cuts from Panamanian MC Zulu.

Shell out the hard stuff at the new Revolt Into Style label site, who are also preparing to drop tunes from Douster, Marcelo Fabian and Zort.

Frikstailers – Baile Frik | mp3

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Tremor | Viajante (Remix)

November 11th, 2008 Stu

We’ve seen Japanese baile funk and Portuguese kuduro – here’s another genre displaced from its homeland: Australian Cumbia. The Cumbia Cosmonauts may be based in Melbourne, but they have deep links back to Mexico via a long-standing creative relationship with the Nortec Collective and other artists in Tijuana (see myspace.com/melbournetijuana for details). The Australian collective have launched a series of ’sessions’ titled “This Is Tijuana!” in Melbourne, starting recently with a local premiere screening of the documentary ‘Tijuana Remix’. The latin connection continues with this remix of Argentinean producer, Leonardo Martinell, aka Tremor, whose new album of the same name is released this month via Los Años Luz and who recently toured North America as part of the 2008 Zizek tour. The Cumbia Cosmonauts bring a stripped back, at times dubbed-out re-version to the fore, hinting that a twist on the Cumbian-norm might be Australia’s next top export.

Tremor – Viajante (De La Tierra Remix by The Cumbia Cosmonauts) | mp3

Tags: argentina, cumbia, cumbiacosmonauts, tremor

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