CUMBIA MESTIZA VOL. 1 & 2
Nasty ass cumbia mash-ups mixed by DJ Juan Data: Not your maid's cumbia!!!
LYNIERISMO EPISODE I
For all of you who got my two previous neo-cumbia mixes -Cumbia Mestiza Volumes 1 and 2- this is a complete different deal. I'm not mixings songs as much as breaks on this one, combining cumbia breaks with hip-hop breaks and plenty of other broken musical garbage. That's what Linyerismo is all about. In Argentinian old-school slang a linyera is someone who picks through other people's trash in search for usable stuff and that's was basically the idea behind this mix, to put together a messy sound collage of little bits and pieces from cumbia music.
LYNIERISMO EPISODE II
Episode II starts right were Episode I left, that is at 110 BPM, and takes the listener in a journey further away from the traditional cumbia tempo into the lands of electro in 130BPM. So, even though cumbia is still present throughout the mix, there are plenty of other eclectic condiments to this salad.
MERSAHOLIC
One thing that stands out on this mix, comparing to the Linyerismo episodes is the abundant use of turntablism (and wacky-ass baby scratch!). Linyerismo Episode I was entirely mixed inside my laptop and Episode II had a few scratch additions and arrangements here and there. In Mersaholic, almost all of the mixes you'll hear were recorded live using vinyl controllers and there's even some old "real" vinyl records too. I think that gives it a whole different vibe because it doesn't sound as much as a studio mix (even though it is) and it sounds messier and dirtier too.
So the way it was done, was something like this: I'd grab some cumbia break beat I like, mix it with something else, process it through the Kaoss pad, add effects, turn it into something very different from the original and save it as a mini-mix. Then, after a while, I had a whole bunch of those 20 or 30 seconds minimixes and I'd mix them together in real time using turntables into the larger megamix. That's Mersaholic.
So the way it was done, was something like this: I'd grab some cumbia break beat I like, mix it with something else, process it through the Kaoss pad, add effects, turn it into something very different from the original and save it as a mini-mix. Then, after a while, I had a whole bunch of those 20 or 30 seconds minimixes and I'd mix them together in real time using turntables into the larger megamix. That's Mersaholic.
Ο Juan Data είναι έναι ένας εκρηκτικός αργεντίνος dj, γεννημένος και μεγαλωμένος στο Buenos Aires, και τα τελευταία δέκα χρόνια εργάζεται στο San Francisco (παράλληλα και) ως μουσικός δημοσιογράφος. Στο πολύ δυνατό blog του, με το όνομα THE HARD DATA, φτιάχνει απίστευτα προσεγμένα mixtapes, με ιδιαίτερο concept κάθε φορά, και hand-made εξώφυλλα (tributes σε παλιά album του Africa Baambaata και των Wu-Tangs) ζωγραφισμένα από τον ίδιο. Το υλικό που μειξάρει ο τύπος είναι κυρίως Cumbia (ένα μουσικό ιδίωμα φτιαγμένο αρχικά από αφρικανούς σκλάβους στα εδάφη της Κολομβίας και του Περού, με συνεχή δημοφιλία σε ολόκληρη τη Νότια Αμερική, ιδίως στο Μεξικό, αλλά και στις ΗΠΑ την τελευταία δεκαετία, σε μεταλλαγμένη μορφή φυσικά -γράφει η Wikipedia). Η διαδικασία περιγράφεται λεπτομερώς από τον ίδιο στο blog του, και το αποτέλεσμα είναι κάθε φορά μοναδικό... Έχει δώσει πέντε μείξεις ως τώρα, κυρίως cumbian bass/rave, με την τελευταία 'Mersaholic Mix' να ενσωματώνει old-school breaks και cumbian field recordings! Βάζω να την ακούω δυνατά τα μεσημέρια μετά το φαγητό, και προσποιούμαι πως ο έρμος ο Σεπτέμβρης δεν μπήκε ποτέ...
wow, what an honor! great post!!!!
ReplyDeletere karntasi ti exete pathei me ta cumbia lol
ReplyDeleteuhh... weird... you know, i played it loud to my MAID and ....she liked it!!!! "Me gusta Data Juan!!!" she said...wooooooooo!!!
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