New music and you can add it to your playlist!
Listen to and download this track featuring DJ Snake’s “Slow Down” blended with Mary J. Blige’s “Real Love,” here.
Tag: free music
Great #Colombian music mix!
Great music mix by DJ Cal Jader, but this isn’t just any Colombian music mix. It’s NUEVA musica de Colombia. So get your “modern Colombian” (global bass and more) on by listening below via Mixcloud. Also, check out everything Cal Jader has to offer on his radio show/record label/website, Movimientos out of the U.K.
West Coast style Valentine’s Day music from Los Rakas
via Conrazón:
Continuing their tradition of putting out great free music and especially on Valentines Day aka #RakaLove – you’ve heard 2012’s Raka Love and 2013’s Lets Get It On (Pa’ Encima), right?? – Raka Rich and Raka Dun team up again with the Bay Area’s Mars Today, putting out a lush call for loving in new track “Tell Me”
Get the Free Download and make sure you tell Los Rakas how you like it today at this hashtag:
#TellMeRakaLove
Get the song now: http://losrakas.bandcamp.com/track/tell-me-mars-today-ft-los-rakas
New music & other stuff
New music roundup!
- Stream Sharon Jones (yes, two of my posts mention Ms. Jones this week) and the Dap Kings’ new single, “Give The People What They Want,” via NPR Music. It’s an especially welcome tune since 2013 was a tough year for her. (Details at NPR.)
- My buddy K. Sabroso released a remix of an Arure track which goes from “Classical Orchestration to Jazzy Breakbeats and even touches on Future Garage” to celebrate his one year anniversary of moving to New York from Indiana. K. Sabroso says the track (“Satila“) is “the highlight of [his] career so far even though it’s been sitting in the archive for over a year.”
- The D.C. homegirls of Maracuyeah have a new mix called Maraculeando Con Amor and I wrote about it for Sounds and Colours. The mix includes rhythms from all over Latin America, with a heavy emphasis on “Dominican electro-dembow, experimental 3ball, champeta-inspired electronic music, tropical vintage gems that are often left off the DJ decks, and Moombahton remixes, with that genre’s DC and Latin roots.” So get on it. There’s a free download to this mix!
- My boy Cousin Cole made a New Year’s hangover cure mix. This mix of SOUL (yes, I said that in a high pitch voice) includes goodies from Leroy Hutson, Gil Scott Heron, the Commodores, and more, so it’s certainly soothing. As for the title of the mix, don’t worry, you’ll be hungover again, so stream or download it below.
- I may be a bit of a Hall & Oates nerd, so imagine my surprise when Chicago-via-Brooklyn whiteboy rapper, Trevor the Trashman, released a new track (“Spoiled Brat“) that samples “Sara Smile.” Check it out via Stupid Dope.
Upcoming shows I want to see:
Just making this “to do” list public so I have to oblige and not punk out in favor of catching up on “Scandal” on the Roku.
La Mecanica Popular at the Electric Cowbell and Barbes APAP Showcase 2014 THIS VERY SATURDAY at DROM.
Helado Negro at the Silent Barn Bushwick, Brooklyn, in early February.
Buika at Town Hall in NYC this April.
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Tour video!
Last, but certainly not least, have you been to Panama? I sure haven’t! But I want to go. Check out this behind-the-scenes footage of Making Movies recent trip to the homeland of the Chi brothers (lead singer-songwriter/guitarist and bassist of the band). You’ll feel as if you’re there and live vicariously through them, EXCEPT for the part in which they hold snakes and scorpions. No thank you! 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d66CsXe_QL4&feature=share&list=PLCnwKfxTu60Ye40XZjZfVoYr04yYoyjhe
The band never stops touring, really. So stay tuned for upcoming tour dates here.
Musica: Mixes of the week
(Smut Lee at Que Bajo in 2011. Ignore the person in the foreground.)
It occurred to me today that although I’m one hell of a SHARER when it comes to music, they aren’t always easily found. I typically share using Twitter and Facebook and although the internet is FOREVER, my posts can get lost down below since I continue to add to my news feed and timeline. (We all know I’m addicted to social media.)
So, in an attempt to become a better curater, I’ll post a roundup periodically on this blog. Here we go:
Grab some remixes of Los Rakas by San Antonio super producer, Sonora, here. (And check out Los Rakas while they’re on tour. Link to tour info in the Sounds and Colours piece by me.)
Watch this awesome Q&A with Thornato by my amigos up north at Dos Mundos. Then download Thornato’s mix because it’s VERY good.
What haven’t I said on Twitter about London’s Smut Lee!?!?? I first heard the smutty one at Que Bajo in the summer of 2011 and I’ve been a big fan ever since. His dancehall mixes are always the shizzzzz *and* this one samples Lonely Island character Ras Trent (by Andy Samberg.)
Finally, K. Sabroso, the Indianapolis DJ and producer shared an exclusive mixtape with Sounds and Colours. It includes Colombian electro/champeta groups Palenke Soultribe and Systema Solar alongside salsa greats Willie Colon, Hector Lavoe and Celia Cruz.
periMENTAL 