The pun’s so good I’m surprised no-one’s done it before: Fela Soul is an album of De La Soul vocals over Fela Kuti loops. The perfect salve after hearing the entire Beatles back catalogue played at the same time.

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It appears Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s ’95 Wu anthem ‘Shimmy Shimmy Ya’ is everything to fuck wit’. Mash ups abound. I constantly used to play it over Pest’s Chicken Spit, which now sounds barren to me when heard ODB-less. Here are some recent mash-ups, covers and remixes…

J Boogie shimmies shimmies up the Nicodemus remix of Empresarios‘ Cumbia…

While Hiphopreggae Dubs swipe the beat and overlay Beenie Man vocals…

Forgetting that mashup business, Prince Fatty cover it from scratch…

As does El Michels Affair. With added niños…

Tommy Diaz reworks it into a bmore track…

And the track that first led me down this nueva cumbia rabbithole. Finally now available to download at a decent bitrate: Uproot Andy‘s classic ‘Brooklyn Cumbia’…

Still you know what they say: Ooo baby I like it raw…

*Edit*
I’ve just been sent this jungle version of the Prince Jammy cover by Axewound. oh oh OH!

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 for a while yet I never expected this – an ever evolving playlist of all my favourited artists. It’s what Last.fm failed to become and officially my favouritest thing in 2011 so far… except the baby sloth I saw. Sloths slay me.

This is the first thing it played for me…

And here’s a Andrés Digital cumbia mash-up that it found…

Definitely gonna be playing that last one on Thurs.

Huskiii mashes up Kanye West and Muslimgauze…

HUSKIII – GOLD FAKIR

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.

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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

Adewale Ayuba – Fuji Music
Ahmed Janka Nabay – Eh Congo
Maga Bo – Wolofolatino Instrumental (ft. teba)
A.R. Rahman – Jiya Se Jiya
N-Ron and $mall ¢hange – Boa Tarde Povo (afternoon mix)
Relight Orchestra & DJ Andrea – Mama Africa
Zonora Point – Huachita Rica (douster remix)
ODB vs Uproot Andy – Brooklyn Cumbia
Sonido del Principe – Wucumbia
Sonido del Principe vs Josefa Matia – Cumbia Solede
Dub Traffik Control – Carlito Cumbia
Sidestepper – Sidestepper
Flowering Inferno – Cuidad del Swing
Red Astaire – Mambo el B-boy
Erykah Badu – Cleva (CP’s smarter samba mix)
Beatconductor – Balanço
Color Climax – Pa Coco Solo
AIFF ft. Crucial T – Afro Riddim (remix)
Los Hermanos Latinos – Baria Cumbia (remix)
DJ Lettieri – Waterman (tribal guaracha remix 2009)
Prince Nico Mbarga – Aki Special (uproot andy remix)
Alcides – Violeta (El Remolón remix)
The Emanons – Calypso Bop

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