Cumbia

This summer, we will shower you with mixtapes.

Check out the latest addition to the New Worck family: a heavy cumbia mixtape, mixed with some more sabor sudamericano.

¡Ay Papito! The next Bombcast is here, finally, and it's a killer. Exclusively available here, and mixed by Canibal Negro, aka Color Kit, of ZZK Records nueva cumbia heroes Fauna.

I was going to do a nice write-up on this, but his site already puts it very succinctly:

"After five years of running the streets of Texas, this talented dj/producer is set to release his tropical debut album.

The album, ‘Carajo Colombia’, a cornucopia of sounds, consists of thirteen tracks that are remixes, edits, originals and bsides that focus on the music that Orion was raised on. The album focuses most notably on Cumbia and it is presented in a more club fashion, remixing funk, hip-hop and Baltimore Club music intermittently to produce a high-energy coagulation of musical magic. Orion has always been keen to bring something unique to a traditional sound.

This is how you get down to cumbia villera:

(Damas Gratis (lit. "Ladies Free" or "Ladies Night") are an Argentinian band, and one of the big daddies of the Cumbia Villera style)

The beginning of the set of Doma Tornados at another Bomb Diggy tropical night in Amsterdam...
The audience was beginning to feel his south-american rhythms more and more...

A deep mystical set with live percussion on his cool drumpad made it a special performance and a dynamic live act!
His unique sound balances between deep tribal, almost dubtechno-like, but changes over to Brazilian rhythms before you know it, and tops it off with some cumbia beats as well.

A little goodie for y'all while we're recovering from yesterday's smashing party at OT301:

Bomb Diggy's minister of Digital Affairs Ru-D recently made a 10 minute tropical mini mix we would like to share with you.

Enjoy!

Ru-D - Skwumbiaton Mix by Ru-D