I’ll be playing a set at Ginglik’s COVER UP night this Friday. And to set the mood here’s some cumbiaized Specials.

Fantasma – Ghost Town by Newton Las Pelotas!

FANTASMA – GHOST TOWN

And not a cover per se, but a great dancehall refix of Britney…

Britney Spears – Breaktime Womanizer (Maasto Refix) by Maasto Records

BRITNEY SPEARS – BREAKTIME WOMANIZER (MAASTO REFIX)

Los Chinches are an “amazonian cumbia” band from London, playing chicha, a peruvian style of cumbia.

From thee press release…

Los Chinches interpretation of Chicha music is very much their own, with backgrounds in many musical styles from rock n’ roll to jazz to Latin, fusing London’s punk attitude and spirit with timeless Amazonian vibes. Their sound and live performance is a psychedelic burst of energy driven by a fierce frontline of percussion.

And here’s the mighty Toy Selectah bringing the bomp to their new track Chicha Love…

LOS CHINCHES – CHICA LOVE (TOY SELCETAH!! REMIX)

FFTANG!’s Huskiii is playing a Latin American set at Notting Hill Arts Club tonight. Check the flyer for deets.

FLYER

Check out this slice of “abstract world glitch pop” from the insanely prolific 13th Tribe

ZaZa B featuring Jazzo and Keishal by The 13th Tribe

Our favourite mix of 2009….

Mixtape Aztek 732 part 1 by aztek732

In lieu of Professor Calculus playing at FFTANG! FFTANG! we’re reposting his cracking mix of braziliAfro fonk…

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Come down to 93 Feet East on December 15th to hear him play his brand of Brazilian psych, funk, Tropicalia, Afro-beats and bobs.

An exhibition of Lithuanian culture will be happening tonight at East Gallery on London’s Brick Lane. Or on Sat in Birmingham. Check HERE for details.

FFTANG! FFTANG! will be playing at the after party which gives us the excuse to post some Lithuanian hiphop.

CORAS – NA ZAGRANKE (ft. Skazo)

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Saw these guys play a few weeks ago and the drumming was incredible. The album’s a colab between UK jazz musicians and Sabar percussionists from The Gambia. Listen below and buy here if your jazz boat is suitably rocked.

BARA MBAYE

Come down to 93 Feet East next Tuesday to catch DJ IZEM from GROOVALIZACION radio play blazing tropical-meets-western-grooves mashups. Cumbia, samba, reggae and hip-hop kindle the audio burn…

A bit of info on the station…

Groovalizacion project comes from a radio programme called « Musicas Migratorias » (migratory music) on UPV Radio Valencia, Spain, a social an artistic initiative born in 2006. Its main purpose was to promote communication between alien cultures through art and instigate integration and dialogue amongst our multicultural societies. It started as a project performed by artists from various countries and dedicated to this intercultural dialogue.

The brightest civilizations and golden ages have always been the result of melting pots and combinations of different traditions and knowledge. Groovalizacion likes to believe that progress comes from mutual understanding and tolerance. That it also comes from the pleasure to meet foreign cultures, to taste the subtle contrasts which enrich our perception.

Groovalizacion wants to give a voice to the new musical scenes, to create a place where traditions and modernity freely mingle: Fusion, world, electro, Celtic music, flamenco, jazz, tango, reggae, ska, soul, urban sounds, bossa-nova, klezmer, raï… There is no end to the list of sounds and perfumes which, build identities, bring dialogue and food for thought.

Groovalizacion is a music lab, a meeting place and one of cultural exchange. Its doors are wide open to the curious kind eager to try the cocktail a la Groovalizacion, rich in flavours and ingredients collected along the way and the different latitudes. It’s a torrid, fun and passionate atmosphere which will take you from São Paulo to Casablanca, Berlin to Dakar, Bombay to Buenos-Aires, Hong-Kong to la Havana…

DJ IZEM – ANDY PALACIO vs CHUCK D

BOMBA ESTÉREO – FUEGO (DJ IZEM GROOVALIZACION REMIX)