A chunk of the set I did at a local bar for Cinco de Mayo, download available. Un poco de Cumbia nueva y Cumbia vieja.
Showing posts with label MadCoins Mix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MadCoins Mix. Show all posts
Sunday, August 21, 2011
MadCoins - 'merica mix
A slew of golden era and old school hip hop recorded live for Sunday
Service Night at Natt Spil bar in Madison, Wisconsin on 7/3/2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Keep It Reggae mix by MadCoins
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Redbull Induced Mix by MadCoins
The newest MadCoins mix is out, rejoice. I made this after 3 too many redbulls and 5 too many vodkas so I was in perfect shape to mix. This is a world beats based mix genre jumping between UK Funky, Middle Eastern beats, Hip Hop, Glitch and general weirdness. Free download available as usual.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Just Me and My Glitch Mix
My newest mix containing bass driven Glitch music meant to rattle your teeth and piss off your neighbors. Listen to and/or download it at mixcrate above or soundcloud below.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
MadCoins Mix - 21st Century Soul (Happy J Dilla Month, Valentine's Day)
Here is a soulful new mix I did inspired by J Dilla who has been gone for 5 years today (and the mix is just in time for Valentine's Day). Enjoy.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Free mix from yours truly, download available
My last live set of 2010. Part 1 of 2 (The file was too big for a 1 part mix, you'll find the 2nd part near the 1st on mixcrate). Part 1 starts a bit into my set with dubstep, then into some new school & old school hip hop. Part 2 starts with cumbia, then some dancehall into old school hip hop, rock and more hip hop. Live at Natt Spil lounge 12/30/10. Click the link above to check it out and feel free to download it if you dig it. Enjoy.
Monday, December 27, 2010
New Cumbia mix & Cumbia history
My new Cumbia Dynamite mix is online now at www.mixcrate.com. The one I did earlier this year is here: Cinco de Mayo Cumbia mix. Cumbia has been an obsession of mine in 2010. I am mostly interested in the digital cumbia that is coming from all corners of the world but the roots cumbia I have been listening to throughout the year has shown me why the new cumbia is so damn good. New schoolers are using melodies that are sometimes 50 years old or more to create fresh tracks based on the solid roots of cumbia.
Cumbia started in the northern coast of South America, what is now Colombia and Panama, mainly in or around Cartagena during the period of Spanish colonization. Spain used its ports to import African slaves, who tried to preserve their musical traditions and also turned the drumming and dances into a courtship ritual. Cumbia was mainly performed with just drums and claves. It is thought that it was played for a courtship dance practiced among the African slave population and was later mixed with European instruments and musical characteristics. The main "shuffle" rhythm you hear in cumbia is arguably hundreds of years old or more. It has been traced to the Cumbe rhythm in Guinean music and also traced to the rhythm of music played by the Yoruba (more specifically, the rhythm is associated with the would have been creationist god Obatala of the Yoruba culture), and in other musical traditions across West Africa.
I love this music. I love the history of this music. There is mad change in its' history yet it has retained much of its beauty & roots through centuries of diaspora and brutality. In fact, it is often the case that art is made more beautiful through things like diaspora, brutality and general struggle. I think this is especially true for Cumbia. In modern times it has African, South American, Central American, North American and European influences mixing with the technology of the day to create a music that is unlike any other. Viva La Cumbia!
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