MAGA BO - ARCHIPELAGOES // NEW ALBUM ON STREETS

Soundlandscapes. Worldwide Migration. Unknown artists. Street credibility. Maga Bo. Archipelagoes.

Maga Bo is from Rio. And Maga Bo likes travelling. He goes far South to find music far away from mainstream productions (and yes, I'm a fan of globalized underground mainstream sounds!).
If he's not working as a sound engineer in Rio, he's travelling, recording, producing and giving production classes in Africa. As a natural result of this, his first album " Archipelagoes" was born and embraced in the family of DJ Ruptures Soot Records. You see, Maga Bo is active.

He's played all over the place from Zanzibar to Senegal to New York to Sri Lanka and so forth. And lately he even made it to London's Fabric, which to me is pretty much impressive, bearing in mind that Fabric is known for electro, drum n bass and raves, and Maga Bo is someone coming from a world music background. See, globalization in music is coming closer and closer!

Anyways, this guy has some defenite production skills to offer, which give Archipelagoes this rough, street style, electronic, dark, hip hop, oriental ragga touch. He travelled all the way to bring a couple of street musicins together, which brings people into our focus who we usually would never ever hear of in our modern Western lives. Collaborations include the Senegalese hiphop godfathers Pee Froiss, new school Moroccan rap heroes Bigg and K-Libre, ragga dancehall man Teba from Cape Town, Zanzibari taarab master Mohammed issa Matona and many more. In fact every of the 12 songs is a collaboration.
Check out Xuman and Bigg especially, as theY're roughneck good!

Archipelagoes is a world record, for globalized people. A migration in sound as a result of globalization, a mixture of styles, sounds, ethnicities and cultures. Sound is migrating and so does Maga Bo. Archipelagoes is just another word for it. Maybe it's even another state of being.

Maga Bo.
Archipelagoes.

Go get some tunes here!
Maga Bo - Abaphantsi feat. Teba(128kbp)

Maga Bo - Nakhil feat.K-Libre

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Go watch Saye Mbott feat. ALIF here

Go watch Fire feat Xuman (Pee Froiss) here

EL HIJO DE LA CUMBIA

Since I always like to discover new bands and DJ's which are far away from the mainstream and ldeal with bastard music in some ways, here goes another one. El Hijo de la Cumbia aka Emiliano Gomez aka Chimango Selectah from Argetnina is one of the new tropicalia-cumbia-producers, twho are entering the electronic scene in the US. He works as a producer and composer in Buenos Aires, Argentina, bringing out releases on the critically acclaimed Bersa Discos and Soot Records (NYC).

Music has always been there, so that Emilio already entered the stage at the age of 12, touring with bands around Argentina. Att the age of 16 he formed his own bands and got more into Reggae, Dub and Dancehall. However, music is such a broad field that the sound of Mexico, la Cumbia Sonidera, inspired him too, so he started working with important groups such as Super Changos or Pesadilla.

His style evolved and Cumbia, Hip Hop, Electronica, Dub and Roots are the main ingredients that define his sound of today. It's basically a modern southern mix of rhythms and a lot of Latin flavor. As a matter of fact, his first album was called “FreeStyle de Ritmos”. What else can I add to this? Fact clear. A unique mix of all musical influences and the feelings that inspired El Hijo de la Cumbia.

El Hijo de la Cumbia

Freestyle de Ritmos

To hear what I'm talking about, here goes an exclusive Mix!

Para Bailar - El Hijo de la Cumbia (Alika & Nueva Alianza Remix)

BANANAZ by Ceri Levy

I just went to the In-Edit Beefeater music documentary event in Barcelona today and got blown away by the incredibly well done and funny documentary "Bananaz" from Ceri Levy about the making of the GORILLAZ.
So now, that I'm a bit wiser I can pass on some info here: The Gorillaz were made of Damon Alban (Blur) and Jamie Hewlett (Tank Girl), both obviously very funny individuals to be around with and basically taking a piss out of the music biz. Gorillaz were the first band ever made of 2D characters, although the actual band behind the project is really a good mix of known artits such as De La Soul or the ex-guitarrist from Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. The making of the movie took 6 (!) years and the movie maker Ceri Levy actually became from being the coffee-man the man behind the camera.
Hip Hop meets Rock and comic characters meet funny real life persons, trying to clash certain stereotypes in music and innovate constantly. There's not much more to say, apart from go to the movie and watch it yourself! It's worth it! And I'm not the best describing a whole story behind moving images, which one has to see...

BOSTICH _ TENGO LA VOZ (Cancion oficial del festival)

L a Cantina

La Cantina are from Frankfurt, Germany. Where bear and bull shake hands to encourage German economy, La Cantina encourages to warm your soul with some soulfull music. In the middle of this modern banker city with an old center, the two guys Dirk Grimmer and Oliver Haas are mixing modern beats with ancient centered roots. Latin bounce meets Dub, DnB and Electro. They just produced their new album "Radio Rebelde" but also do some nice remix work as for Cashma Hoody's album Soundpool. So go check them out!

Here goes some earfood.

La Cantina - Cargo (Ahora es para siempre)

Cashma Hoody - The Sign (Soundpool)

The BUG & WARRIOR QUEEN on XLR8R

Check Video story behind about how The Bug and Warrior Queen met here!

BOOM PAM - Puerto Rican Nights

Boom Pam from Israel released a new album on Essay Recordings called “Puerto Rican Nights”. It’s all Israeli boom pam trumpet music with a strong surf guitar in a Klezmer, Gypsy, Jewish, Greek Mediterranean mix-up sound systema style. They have played alongside Bucovina Club DJ Shantel, owner of Essay, and throughout the whole world - in small bars as well as on the biggest festival stages. The “Puerto Rican Nights” bring them back to smash rock stages and wedding parties and to travel the world again. Although I couldn't find out why the album is called "Puerto Rican Nights", because it's not necessarily very Puerto Rican, it has a fresh groove and comes up with some good collaborations. The Israeli singer Tomer Yosef from Balkan Beat Box (NYC)appears on one track and gives it a hint of a mediterranean reggae touch. The album itself is like a cocktail of all the different genres from Tel-Aviv, the whole multi-ethnic mixture. Boom Pam global genre clash in a Dick Dale style!

New LEG - NO Remix of TRICKY "Council Estate"

Yeah, Leg-No my man from London made a new remix. And guess who was mixed? Yes right, TRICKY with "Council Estate". Big Bamboo!

Get the tune here.

See the video here.