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!

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)