I have no idea if this is hipster or not, but a friend introduced me to this song a few weeks ago and it's pretty good. Not sure where she's from, but doesn't sound Mexican or Central American at all. Could be Spanish or Argentine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQeNAu4XWDA
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Super poppy though
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.clubfonograma.com/2009/12/club-fonogramas-best-albums-of-decade_23.html
Ok, I know some of these.
This year's Julieta Venegas cd (she's Mexican) was disappointing to me. Poppy but she's stuck in a rut, and the hooks weren't as distinctive.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
And I have seen that site before.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
what are some antecedents?
CSS hahahaha lol
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
also Cibelle and maybe also Ceu are obviously pretty big touchstones/crossover for Javiera.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Right. Brazilians have been meshing their sounds with North of the equator Anglo ones for quite awhile.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
looking forward to checkin out all this other stuff but for posterity
javiera mena
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Sometimes this stuff is just stereotypical indie/Pitchfork music in Spanish.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I've noticed that.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
north america is so 2009
― lyrics is weak ... like clock radio similes (deej), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
this song is pretty great -- 1977, ana tijoux (chile) i also like the use of trad latin horns -- makes it different than pfork en españolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiQ7S38nKog
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
also it is not indie rock, so
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Well Pitchfork folks like some rap too. But yep, there are lots of different scenes and genres and defining who's in which one gets difficult (and deciding that one is more important than another or a blog doing this gets kinda silly). She's mentioned on another ilx thread--
spanish language hip-hop
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
hey i guess hip hop is hipster shit too, right? i like her a lot. she's got nerve.
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
important things i learned from this thread: hipsters probably don't like hip hop, only like stereotypical pitchfork indie.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Sometimes
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know if this counts as Latin American hipster shit or not, but the general style is my favorite recent Latin American discovery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IoXKOKFjsE
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i really like that. but, yeah, hipsters probably wouldn't. whoever the hell they are.
― scott seward, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm really into Belanova, have been since their first album. Also like almost everything that comes out on Nacional Records in the US.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
x-pssst
I don't know. How would you describe this demographic, other than probably very horny young Mexicans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRV7WVr_-qQ
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
(I know I'm guilty of linking to the same shit in multiple ILM threads.)
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
"I thought there were going to be more girls here."
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
huh not quite as much dancing as i would expect there
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i like the sound of it though
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
That's what I was saying on another thread: the crowd looks like it's not sure it knows what to do with it. I think maybe Puerto Ricans need to steal tribal guarachero and claim it as their own and piss everyone off. At least there will be more dancing.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
(I should give credit to fauxmarc for turning me onto this stuff.)
i was watching live footage of lenny dee spinning hardcore for drunk kids around the globe for HOURS the other night. lenny in scotland! lenny in croatia! i don't know what was wrong with me. well, i was stoned, but still...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qFSftDa7zA&feature=related
― scott seward, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
has nothing to do with this thread though so just disregard.
― scott seward, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Singles Jukebox review roundups of songs by:
Rita Indiana & Los Misterios
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=2938
Javiera Mena
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=2825
Natalia Lafourcade
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=879
Calle 13 (assuming they're hipster enough to qualify for this thread)
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=860
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=41
Fwiw, I was really into Latin alternative stuff in the early/mid '90s (when people still called it "rock en español"), for a while there almost to the exclusion of everything else. Even went to Mexico a couple times to interview bands like Caifanes and Fobia. But none of this newer stuff has done much for me, and a lot of it just makes me shrug my shoulders. Probably I just haven't heard the right records. I did kind of like the Garotas Suecas album on American Dust, Escaldante Banda, this year, though.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
zmog, why did you link to that... is that a parody site?
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
there's a lot of dancing in that rincon - i mean since tribal's "new" in musical years it's not like there's an official traditional partner dance for it - most of that bouncing seen isn't too different from what you see end up with when cumbia or pasito durango is on and people are dancing by themselves. with some self-consciousness added as i think that's mostly highschoolers.
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
but re: original thread latin american hipster shit is just as "precious" and tired as non-latin american hipster shit but with more ska as someone mentioned in another thread
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Lol, I was not expecting partner dancing.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
unfortunately the potential partner dancing is all i can see in my head now.
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i wasn't really expecting partner dancing either, just a little more energy? oh well. what's this about not knowing how to dance to cumbia -- i always thought of cumbia as super trad (ie not at all hipster)?
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
nah wasn't saying cumbia isn't traditional, just comparing the solo-bouncing you can find at cumbia parties with what's in the rincon vid, but i hear what's said re: energy
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Plastilina Mosh.
― naus, Thursday, 30 December 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
dear balls,
saw that you gave javiera mena some p+j love. are you currently writing for anyone? would read if so.
― Pink Friday XIII (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i love the shoutout to old school cumbia song "pollera colora" herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZXlgNMDK3E
they qualify as hipster because they're playing the empty bottle in chicago and also only hipsters shave half of their headsif you like the tougher side of shakira but wish she weren't so groany, this is for you
― deez m'uts (La Lechera), Friday, 6 May 2011 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess should mention for searching purposes that the above post is "fuego" bomba estéreo -- which i realize is a couple of years old, but they're touring now and i bet this will be their big summer
― deez m'uts (La Lechera), Friday, 6 May 2011 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
no one cares, but i am going to see this band ^^ on saturday and it's going to be a bombazo
― deez m'uts (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 May 2011 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Well have enjoy it and just ignore ILM's obliviousness (mine included).
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 12 May 2011 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjMQmXAJ3y4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOqUPly_hOQ
― noleander, Thursday, 12 May 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
pedantic point: el guincho is from the canary islands which are in europe
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 May 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Maria Daniela y su sonido lasser - miedo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFhKfEOQm0E
Telefunka - Brillantina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC5BfIAKh60&feature=related
Plastilina Mosh - Pervert pop song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5qXY9sQu2Y
Plastilina Mosh - Millionairehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bojBxTg6Z-g
Miranda - don
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_55XQiq6yr4
Ultrasonicas - que grosero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg0LdGWpoPQ
Rebolledo - Guerrero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwWZI_k3Vlg
― ◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝ (Moka), Thursday, 12 May 2011 08:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Moderatto are also pretty hipster. They make "ironic" hair metal covers from well-known latin pop hits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxoTTTxfCgAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDRheQsejx4
Also: Titan - corazon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn9Bz6c-674
― ◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝ (Moka), Thursday, 12 May 2011 08:29 (thirteen years ago) link
And while they're not hipster musicians per se latin hipsters love terrible cumbia artists like Tigresa del Oriente ironically.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5UcgTuvCmU
― ◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝ (Moka), Thursday, 12 May 2011 08:34 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsdcbKNQmz4&feature=related
― CarlosDP, Sunday, 23 October 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhasqIau8i4
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
New from the AJ Davila camp: https://soundcloud.com/lolapistola/tu-pensabas
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link
Saw on the Not Pop Not Indie Shambhala thread but it seems like it belongs here too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVEtutalobA
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 23 May 2015 02:42 (eight years ago) link
Alex Anwandter returns!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CLEcVaVbW4
Doesn't sound like a big departure from his previous house/disco sound ...but who could possible get tired of that? No word yet on whether Cristian Heyne is involved.
― daavid, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
Full song. Exactly what you would expect from the clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecC-HMZPPMs
Brilliant bit starting at 1:50.
― daavid, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 19:02 (eight years ago) link
whoa this is great
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link
just saw on club fonograma that the full Anwandter album is out, still on the first listen, but its very nice so far
― kruezer2, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:55 (eight years ago) link
http://www.clubfonograma.com/2016/04/alex-anwandter-amiga.html
― kruezer2, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:56 (eight years ago) link
I think Cordillera is my favourite on first run thru, love its just full on going for the jugular
― kruezer2, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:59 (eight years ago) link
yeah so el sonido de los corazones que is a tour de force. the title track is a jam too, this album is my shit. will try to limit my gushing to these four posts, heh
― kruezer2, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:22 (eight years ago) link
back to say upon repeated listens the quieter final third of this album is great
― kruezer2, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 01:20 (eight years ago) link
New Selma Oxor (though this might be a new collection of old singles):
https://selmaoxor.bandcamp.com/album/fantasias-de-tocadorhttps://open.spotify.com/album/7AqqbQLYwUlILY9vVJoHBJ
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 29 April 2016 17:29 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwW2OA561c0
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 29 April 2016 18:22 (eight years ago) link
alex anwandter's "siempre es viernes en mi corazon" is very good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTUWwUUa1WE
― jaymc, Sunday, 31 July 2016 07:08 (seven years ago) link
laid-back summer jam from the Dominican Republic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMORdzduQ6M
― ǂbait (seandalai), Friday, 26 August 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL9vARAAxjs
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 26 August 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link
That MULA jam is really really great...and after investigating in them a little more, most of their stuff is.
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Monday, 29 August 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
Do Femina from Argentina or Ile (sister from Calle 13) fit in this thread?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 August 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
I don't really think iLe does aside from the final track from the album, which I just posted.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 29 August 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
I don't know anything about this, but it seems like it goes here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP38cVlmjjM
― fffv, Monday, 29 August 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Monday, August 29, 2016 12:49 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
agreed, awesomely laid back, really great song. will listen to more of their stuff
― kruezer2, Monday, 29 August 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
No mention of Maria Usbeck upthread. She belongs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6-iqQ7KAoU
― gesticulating Pez dispenser (Sanpaku), Monday, 29 August 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
I just heard Bomba Estéreo for the first time this evening and I'm really surprised that there is only one mention of them on this thread. They are pretty incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgjRPk4E6Eghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QaJ_TMYR8Y
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 02:06 (seven years ago) link
Bomba Estereo have been mentioned on the various yearly Afro-Latin threads.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 03:35 (seven years ago) link
La Lechera has talked them up a lot, maybe mostly not even on the Afro-Latin threads.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 04:21 (seven years ago) link
(Not feeling well and don't have the mental focus for much of anything, which is why I'm joining you in these go nowhere comments.)
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 04:24 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I had a feeling I probably missed it somewhere. I don't think I've ever checked out those Afro-Latin threads before. Either way, it seems like it would fit in here.
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 05:45 (seven years ago) link
I'm not crazy about Bomba Estereo vocals, but many of the rest of you seem to be fine with them
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:58 (seven years ago) link
I'm not a fan of the band in general. I don't dislike them, but they never really made much of an impression on me.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 16:06 (seven years ago) link
Another 2016 single that qualifies.
Modular - Fiebre En La Discohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omFjFIyjjVg
― gesticulating Pez dispenser (Sanpaku), Saturday, 3 September 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
Love this new MULA: https://mulaband.bandcamp.com/track/fugitiva
― timber euros (seandalai), Thursday, 26 November 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
Listening to Natalia Lafourcade's Hasta la Raiz for the first time in a while. Man, this album is so good.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 18:55 (one year ago) link
jaymc- that's a contemporary standard imo.
this song has come to mean so much to my life. idk man, can i keep going like this? not seen much chat about this band here and they're full of these sorts of delights. didn't know where else to post-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAmCQ_vL7w8
bomba estereo - "el alma y el cuerpo" (2012)
― the adventures of Yari and ixa. (Austin), Saturday, 7 October 2023 18:05 (seven months ago) link
i don't even know if she fits in here, but this ely guerra tune is so dreamy and glorious. get lost in that guitar. wow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpO6b4DdWQ4
ely guerra - "colmena" (2009)
― the adventures of Yari and ixa. (Austin), Sunday, 8 October 2023 02:25 (seven months ago) link
I thought the Alex Anwandter album from this year was pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6U1lF9TI30
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 21:44 (seven months ago) link
Some latinamerican hipster shit I’ve been enjoying in the past couple years:
(Mexico) Tonga Conga - Mira Bienhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCal34JvxfE
(Colombia) Cero39 - Hipnoticohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBAzpGPcRGk
(Chile) Chicarica - la noche de ayerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe71GxCSmTE
(Chile) Playa Gótica - Fuegohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aC-AjwVetU
(Mexico) Clubz - nagano feat. ela minushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-uiiycDKaA
(Mexico) Disco Bahia - Necedadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCIrRX70EVo
This one is from the 80’s but got revived earlier this year by hipsters. Lucia Mendez is a mexican celebrity mainly known as an actress for soap operas, and a popular ranchera and ballad singer… but she also made a post-punk song in 1983… years before several popular rock bands from Latin America were influenced by the genre which is a bit funny:
Lucia Mendez - Margarita
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_GOQ3aXybw
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:51 (seven months ago) link
It’s also non-ironically a pretty good song.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:53 (seven months ago) link
ground control to major tom babyyyyy
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 15:00 (seven months ago) link