FFTANG!’s Huskiii is playing a Latin American set at Notting Hill Arts Club tonight. Check the flyer for deets.
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DJ iZem
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…
Cuban Scottish Rastafari Hip-Hop
THE 13th TRIBE have been playing on the FFTANG! stereo solidly for the last coupla days and this slice of latin/afro hiphop won’t leave my headspace… Hailing from Glasgow and featuring Cuban vocalist Nicheflow (with shouts out to Jah Rastafari and Africa) Negro sums up everything about our night in 205 perfect seconds.
And unlike Raekwon they aint only built for Cuban links – 13T’s back-catalogue features musicians and vocalists from Haiti, Cameroun, Spain, Mali, Venezuela, Senegal, Ethiopia and Portugal to name a few. And the awesome co-produced VOCA project (which provided the vox in this cut) is definitely worth delving into for afrocoustic goodness. I’m told the forthcoming album is “the mutts”.
Totó La Momposina
Cargo are on fuego at the mo… Not long after the latin legend dancefest that was the Joe Bataan gig, we now have Columbian diva, Totó La Momposina, gracing these East London shores on Sep 16.
A few remixes floating about this past year have appropriated her vocals, and she has a new album out. But for us nothing touches the majesty of her 2002 LP Pacantó.
Here’s the title track…
Totó La Momposina – Pacantó
And here’s she crops up on one of this summer’s i-beef-ah anffums….
Michel Cleis ft. Totó La Momposina – La Mezcla
FFTANG! FFTANG! Mixtape 02
This time round the mixed ape has a Latin American lean on, which means Cumbia Nueva by the shedloads. Nuyorican legends Joe Cuba and Willie Colón get love and we end on a couple of Brazilian clássicos. Also there’s some Bavarian brass band Berlin bounce and we make up for the lack of Balkan Bangers in the first installment by including some of the more popular remixes floating around the blogonets. This mix was brought to you by the letter B.
Totó la Momposina – El Porro Magangueleño
Super Sonido Changorama – La Suave Cumbia De
Kinfolk Kia Shine – So Krispy (cumbianativo remix)
Sonido Del Principe – Boom Boom
Balkan Beatbox – Red Bula (bbb remix)
Dunkelbunt – Dunkelbunt Rocks da Funky Beats
Hernan Builes – Chela (sneaky p remix)
DJ Avatar – Cumbia Int’l Mas Cultura Prod.
DJ Rage – La Companera (remix)
Tupolev Sound Crash – Green Curry Cumbia (facon darcyr remix)
De Leve – Cão Fudido
Palov & Mishkin – Ouist Atou
Willie Colón – Che Che Cole
Joe Cuba Sextet – Bang Bang
Rye Rye ft. MIA – Bang (prince of ballard remix)
Riot Kid – Shalom
Amadou & Mariam – Sabali (uproot andy remix)
Paulinho Pinheiro – Merengue Rebita (dj dolores rmx)
G.Rag und die Landlerg’schwister – Schorschl Take 3 (Isartaler Ghettoschützen Schlachthofbronx remix)
Grandpamini – Pégalé
Os Mutantes – Bat Macumba
Som Tres – Take it Easy my Brother Charles
