Big Chill interviews Marsali & Huskiii

Posted on January 12, 2012 by fftang in Musings | No Comments

Ahead of tomorrow’s party. Big Chill quiz FFTANG! FFTANG!’s Huskiii and Marsali about this new darn fangled ‘Tropical Bass’.

Could you tell us a bit about Tropical Bass as a genre?
Marsali: Tropical bass is about taking the

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María Alba. But is it the right one?

Meta Fail

Posted on April 20, 2011 by fftang in Musings | No Comments

Yesterday’s post featured a link to a remix that I’d made of a Celso Piña track. Or so I thought. Coincidentally, listening to a So Shifty mix today I noticed that it featured the same original song but attributed to María Alba.
Now this makes sense when you hear the [...]

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Clouds over Bogota

Clouds & Cumbia

Posted on January 18, 2011 by fftang in Mp3s, Musings | No Comments

Music collections are so 20th century… lets live in the cloud and never hear the same thing twice again. I downloaded the Soundcloud Mac desktop app today and for me it’s probably killed iTunes. Sorry to go all Mac Welp, but I’ve been waiting for RSS to hit that website [...]

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Barranquilla Carnival

Colombia

Posted on December 12, 2010 by fftang in Musings | No Comments

Speaking of Fin de Año, I’ll be in Cartagena for New Years and would be grateful for any recommendations of clubs, bars, record shops etc to hit up during my stay. I’ll also spend a couple of weeks travelling up the coast via Barranquilla (and a few days down in [...]

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