Afro-Latin Music Thread 2010: La Resurrección (salsa, merengue, bachata, reggaeton, cumbia, etc.)

doubt i'll even try it but awesome cover

I was listening to this mix and I was like: how do they make that squeaky sound like it's coming behind me when I am just playing this on cheap PC speakers? Then I realized it was my chair squeaking as I jiggled my leg.

Some of these mixes use a lot of what sounds like Afro-Cuban orisha song samples, even though there isn't necessarily much else that is Cuban about the music. That's fine with me since I like that sound and at the same time can't necessarily listen to a ton of the pure stuff at one time.

The Calle 13 is a very good album. Might still like the Shakira record more, it's like Zen compared with everything else I love this year though.

I think the Calle 13 is pretty good, still a bit uneven but probably their most consistent album so far.

What do you think of 3BallMTY=tribal guarachero?

chico ye's tikal mixtape (cumbia/reggaeton/pre-hispanic)

cero39 - cumbia anti
sonido de la frontera - mariposa (dub)
chancha via circuito - con la misma moneda
chico ye - la primorosa
julio voltio - edit
dj morphius - para que la pista
chico ye - reggaeton rhythm trax 1
sonido rampage y nader - crazie
frikstailers - kalise
los macuanos - erick rincon remix
manuel palafox - tumbao
dj retro - prehispanik drum
dj javier estrada - mitotiani youaltika

pre-hispanic?

Is there also post-Hispanic?

Not trying to be snarky, the opposite actually, what does pre-Hispanic mean?

i was just copying the arbitrary genre tag verbatim but i believe in general it ends up being a reference to tribal guarachero, earlier on it was called "tribal pre-hispanic", referencing the particular types of flutes and chants and drums used.

Pre-Hispanic: before Spanish conquest. There are often token samples of indigenous music in this stuff.

i love that mentioning indigenous music and native and pre-colonialism etc was completely skipped in my description

Thanks guys. I should have figured that out on my own

Speaking of pre-colonialism, Ned Sublette discussed slavery and Cuba and the US yesterday in the fascinating hour panel at George Mason with Kip Hanrahan and DC dj Jim Byers. They jumped around from discussing Cuban jazz guys in NYC now like Dafnis Prieto to historical differences between African-American and Cuban musical approaches to prejudices against Puerto Rican artists to basic stuff about mambo versus salsa to musicologist details and anecdotes about Chano Pozo and Joe Cuba and the Gonzalez Brothers and Dizzy Gillespie and Cuban religious practices and religious drumming post-Castro in Cuba versus Cuban exiles and us versus them attitudes in the South Bronx and crossover pop...Those are just a few things touched upon.

Alas, they had no time to discuss salsa 2010 or what these folks think of current club styles or bachata or merengue or street mambo...

Orchesta Leyenda, a DC band, performed afterwards and as usual I jealously watched some of the impressive dancers who looked so sharp yet relaxed. They make it look so easy.

Rudiph, that Daddy Yankee release is growing on me.

tail end of (sweden?)'s dj emil + others' show boomshakalaka is on here

aw that might be it actually. when i tuned in some nice bachata i'd never heard was on but now it's gone dubstep.

uploaded to mixcloud here

Erick Rincon's "Manos Arriba 2.0" is pretty damn good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IoXKOKFjsE

I realize that I'm stretching my own thread boundaries a bit here, but this is definitely Latin and it feels Afro-Latin to me. (I was just doing a search and apparently Lex mentioned this earlier this year in one of his quarterly reports, so hats off.)

Julian doing Christmas music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHhYtWSdcw0

Just noticed these local shows in the DC area:

Fri. Dec. 10-Omega el Fuerte at Copocabana in Hyattsville, MD for $50. I saw El Gran Combo here many years back. It's a nice big space.

Sun. Dec. 12 Voltio at Galaxy in Hyattsville

Sun. Dec. 12 Los Horoscopos du Durango at East Coast in Woodbridge (this last one should really go on the banda/duranguese/norteno thread0

Latin Beat Magazine contributors lists for 2010

http://www.latinbeatmagazine.com/features.html

I wanted to hear that Isaac Delgado album but never did. It's not too late I guess.

Again (not that anyone was talking about it): why does tribal belong on this thread? Because when I'm listening to it I start pulling out moves I haven't necessarily touched since I took some west African dancing classes decades ago. The rhythms feel pretty African to me, wherever they actually are coming from.

(I was never very good at all at African dancing, incidentally.)

Man, I've been delinquent, both on this thread and in figuring out why I liked what Afro-Latin I liked this year. BUT you all may be interested to note that Daddy Yankee's "Vida En la Noche", my favorite single of the year, is the #54 single on <a href="http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/134407-the-60-best-singles-of-2010/";>PopMatters's year-end list</a>. Which may just mean I was the only person who voted for it but I voted it #1. Who can tell? That album was really good.

(I need to review the formatting guide.)

kafit - si tú fueras

i don't think i'd normally be into it but i can look at miami all day and the track isn't bad when he's not going diva on the vocals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzpDuIBFl3M

BUT you all may be interested to note that Daddy Yankee's "Vida En la Noche", my favorite single of the year, is the #54 single on PopMatters's year-end list. Which may just mean I was the only person who voted for it but I voted it #1. Who can tell? That album was really good.

I just skimmed that list and missed that fact. I love that song and the whole album (even though there are a couple tracks I'm meh about on their own).

I just wanted to say I started reading Oye Como Va! Hyrbidity and Identity in Latino Popular Music by Deborah Pacini Hernandez, and it looks excellent. Partly I'm just excited to read something that talks so much about things I've listened to in very recent years.

http://www.amazon.com/Oye-Como-Va-Hybridity-Identity/dp/1439900906/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291928792&sr=1-1

I should read that too.

Sometimes it seems that books are the place to turn to for good reporting on hard news type current events; maybe that applies to music as well. Sort of the informal media of blogs, boards, etc. on the one hand and books on the other.

I knew "Hyrbidity" looked wrong but I didn't see what was out of place, and even "Hybridity" looks funny (and the spell check doesn't like either one).

Higherbidity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv8W-qt7qS8

I need to get that; I've got a book proposal in the hopper at a different university press about US Latinos' contributions to metal and punk, and that book probably doesn't deal with that overmuch but would still be worth a read.

No, I don't think it's going to touch on punk and metal much, but it does deal with rock and the identity issues related to taking up rock in general (but then if you looked at the table of contents you already know that). This author also wrote a very well-regarded book on bachata, which for some reason I've never read, but which I've always had in the back of my mind as something that would be worth reading.

Actually her book on bachata is probably very nearly THE book on bachata, in English.

I wish a reggaeton album cover really would look this classy for a change:

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8368986

Ben Ratliff in the NY Times on his boredom with the current 2010 Los Van Van live show:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/arts/music/09van.html?ref=music

lex posted this on the magazine EOY list thread, but I think it's worth re-posting. Not sure how much I'd like the song minus the video but I do like the combination:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej8s1wgGMIQ

Some of her other work sounds closer to Ivy Queen's songs from several years back (though I wouldn't say her vocals really sound that similar):

http://www.myspace.com/princesavale

I like the beat and the video, and find it interesting that she's much more connected to the dancehall side of reggaeton than the Latin pop side (there's a photo on her MySpace page of her with Mad Professor and Macka B) but the timbre of her voice doesn't work for me; it grates on my ear.

i'm ok with it. her myspace says she's from argentina?

Yeah, some quick googling turns up connections to the nu-cumbia scene (or whatever it's called) there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SV9nbvwflE

a good live clip of antony santos doing voy pa'lla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oFG_EQo5Kw

Latest Ivy Queen news:

http://www.examiner.com/latin-music-entertainment-in-los-angeles/ivy-queen-s-sex-being-questioned-again

I think this is a new Wisin & Yandel track (from their forthcoming Los Vaqueros: El Regreso). Didn't they just break up a year ago, or something like that hahaha?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eti8Zb7fHt0

Still in their new generic club dance vein, I'd say.

Another high-budget, thoughtfully crafted video there.

I don't know, that track kinda sucks compared with some of the stuff on their last couple of albums.

I like Frankie Vazquez, but I wish he would direct his talents toward something other than recreating the mambo golden age. Anyway new album from Mambo Legends Orchestra (which is some sort of version of the same Tito Puente legends or whatever that he's been singing with for while):

http://www.myspace.com/mambolegendsorchestra

Afro-Latin Music Thread 2011: danzon, son, bolero, plena, vallenato, candombe, mambo de calle, tribal guarachero, etc.