really looking forward to that... Lijadu Sisters double LP on Soul Jazz landed today which will keep me going....
― Talcum Mucker, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
I just have my old Lijadu Sisters release. That sounds intriguing
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
it's a double vinyl compilation of the afro-beat stuff of their Afrodisia 4 LP's - missing out the more reggae/disco tracks..
― Talcum Mucker, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
London crew, Im doing video stuff at their 10th birthday warehouse party in Hackney tomorrow night. Shaping up to be a good do
http://www.soundwayrecords.com/events/dancing-time-with-soundway-10-year-anniversary-party-2.html
― straightola, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
fuuuck i wish i could go
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 19 April 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
tell me about it!
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 April 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
That Batida record is so great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiypfOcRTs
^ video takes a while to get going but that song is something else
― Friends of Mr Caeiro (NickB), Monday, 23 April 2012 09:27 (twelve years ago) link
Was a great party, all the soundway folk thoroughly nice guys. Wasnt sure what to expect crowd wise but everyone was dancing like crazy all night, no room for beard rubbing at all. The girl who does the video stuff for batida was totally smoking, yabbered at her for quite a while before realising that noone has ever, ever got laid off the back of technical video chat
― straightola, Monday, 23 April 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago) link
the party on friday was great (and even though i can't now remember much about them i recall thinking that the visuals were really impressive, so good work straightola!), to the extent that i somehow managed to wear a hole in my shoe from dancing...
― michael nyman cat (Merdeyeux), Monday, 23 April 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago) link
xp! if i knew technical video terms i'd offer some innuendo opportunities, but alas.
― michael nyman cat (Merdeyeux), Monday, 23 April 2012 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
competence is one of the best weapons in a wooing arsenal -- don't sell yourself short!wish i could have been there. my dancing shoes need more holes in them! i like the batida song i've heard -- maybe i'll get the album when i recover from RSD.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Monday, 23 April 2012 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
Jeffery at Wall of Sound recommended the Edzayawa - Project One to me today. So glad he did. This is a killer album.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
I am totally obsessed with two singles I have from this label (and they're the only things I have from Soundway; as far as I can tell they're not entirely indicative of the label's usual sound?). Majorly funky Guyanan calypso and '60s African twist that brings a total swing to a standard oldies template. Unique phrasings, sudden slightly atonal recorder solos, etc.
Anyway - what else sounds like this? I need MORE of this kind of stuff!!!
Thanks for any recommendations...
Single 1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lncEyS21wnw
Single 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4Cfx5vatGU
― She Got the Shakes, Sunday, 17 June 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
Ok, I am 90% sold on Ondatrópica after hearing I Ron Man.
Weird concept, but well done!Hope they don't go in a more "punk" route because the world doesn't need another punk/ethnic music band but i'm in as long as they keep the vibe super trad
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
I just bought the Panama Soul 12", which is pretty nice. Jungle Rat USA is such a good band name, incidentally.
― She Got the Shakes, Sunday, 24 June 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
10 year anniversary party at Rough Trade this Thursday.
― If you live in Thanet and fancy doing some creative knitting (Fizzles), Sunday, 15 July 2012 09:24 (twelve years ago) link
ondatropica is getting a lot of press, no? comes out tomorrow. i didn't preorder but only because i am tired of their super slow intl shipping.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Sunday, 15 July 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
i went to the store and got this over the weekend, listening to 3xLP set for the first time and all i have to say is that it sounds awesome, but it sounds like 100 more awesome if you are even a little familiar with the type of tropical Colombian music Soundway has been reviving since their first Colombia! comp a few years ago (or knew about la musica tropical de Colombia before.)
I know they're going to get lumped into the Buena Vista Latin Music club, but they're way more than that.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 23 July 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
there's even a goofy romantic boogaloo number if that's your bag
i think it was streaming somewhere and the NYC show is on the 27thsample here at the very least http://snd.sc/JFLQcb
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 23 July 2012 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
whoa i did not realize MICHI SARMIENTO IS STILL ALIVE??
i gotta get this ondatropica record
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 August 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
not only alive, but making music!
it's a shame you missed the london show(s) -- i think there was more than one?
only two shows in usa -- ny and la :(
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 2 August 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
i was in new york for the london show, and will be in london for the new york show *flings back of hand limply to forehead*
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 August 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
oh nm that rough trade show was for soundway as a whole.. STILL THOUGH
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 August 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
yes: http://www.okayafrica.com/2012/10/24/kiki-gyan-24-hours-in-a-disco/
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
It's December and I still think Ondatrópica is really good -- they got slapped with a corny marketing scheme imo, but the music itself is v enjoyable. Any other Soundway recordings I shouldn't miss this year?
― passion it person (La Lechera), Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
To each her/his own, but I think if a group is doing an Afro-Colombian cover of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" like Ondatropica do, they may get a corny marketing campaign because such a cover is kind of corny.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 December 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I guess so. The rest of the album is good though! Maybe I have a high tolerance for corny cumbia.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Thursday, 13 December 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
I really like the Meridian Brothers - Desesperanza LP. Pretty unique take on that stuff.
― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 14 December 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
This one is my favorite - cumbia with little sci-fi synths sprinkled throughout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3_R-RSPmYY
― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 14 December 2012 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
Hmm - I don't know why it didn't embed
― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 14 December 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
"https"->"http" I think
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Friday, 14 December 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
damn, great song.
bump it while looking @ this thread:
post animated gifs of dancing skeletons
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 14 December 2012 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
ooh that is good! thanks. i'm a little confused about what is considered cumbia these days -- that's way faster than what i think of when i think of cumbia.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 14 December 2012 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
I played this track a bunch, not sure where it fits in genrewise: https://soundcloud.com/bombaestereo/lo-que-tengo-que-decir
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Friday, 14 December 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
i like them but i don't think they're on soundway records? did NOT know they had a new record out -- i'll have to give it a listen.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 14 December 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
Their last album was on Soundway in Europe at least.
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Friday, 14 December 2012 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
oh weirdi don't think it was here? i dunno, i downloaded it from emusic i think. anyway i completely forgot about them, so thanks for reminding me.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 14 December 2012 01:41 (eleven years ago) link
fun fun fun fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYAW8oJgti8
― scintilla (seandalai), Monday, 29 April 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
not on soundway, but it feels more relavent to share them here than any other thread:
CHICANO BATMANCHICANO BATMANCHICANO BATMAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynlnp_I4vwY
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Monday, 29 April 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
new meridian brothers -- sounds pretty good so far, and i like the cover art. i'm not really in love with the hyperactive side of psychedelia but maybe it would grow on me.
Deseperanza’ focussed heavily on salsa rhythms but on his new release Álvarez based each track in a different Latin American style. For example ‘Somos los Residentes’ finds it inspiration in Dominican Republic merengue while ‘Baile ultimo….’ is a slow and sad reggaeton. The lyrics talk of a man who has been sent to the electric chair because he was dancing too much reggaeton, a style that isn’t accepted as “good taste” within Colombia.
https://soundcloud.com/soundway-records/meridian-brothers-el-gran-pajaro-de-los-andes-instrumental
― La Lechera, Friday, 20 June 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
THIS, from Cartagena!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jGyfqc7vK8
― Jazzbo, Friday, 20 June 2014 18:11 (ten years ago) link
dang this song is so groovy it's exactly what i needed to hear right now
https://soundcloud.com/soundway-records/vou-me-libertar
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 22:15 (ten years ago) link
hey that track's a lot of fun
― slip jig (seandalai), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 22:38 (ten years ago) link
the beginning sounds kinda like Can!! i love it.
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
damo suzuki-fronted freaked out groovy can
Latest Meridian Brothers record may be his best yet.
https://open.spotify.com/album/3RKNDECAtWiG1Ltq28t9kc
Title track for the Spotify-allergic: https://soundcloud.com/soundway-records/donde-estas-maria
― Jeff W, Friday, 8 September 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link
i feel apprehensive about this in spite of the description sort of appealing to me
Announcing our newest signing, The Mauskovic Dance Band! The Dutch group combines cumbia, Afro-Caribbean rhythms & space disco. Stay tuned
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 January 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
Dutch Cumbia makes me think of the time Malkmus was going to call an album Swedish Reggae. (But who knows, this could be great.)
― tylerw, Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
i guess i don't really turn to Soundway for this sort of thing. whatever it takes to stay alive i guess. maybe it will be good?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
all the vinyl releases from this label are hella expensive these days, wish they would do represses every once in a while
I guess I need Kings Of Benin... I have the (awesome) cumbia 2CD, Nigerian Funk, Nigerian Disco, and The World Ends Part 1, any other shortlist recommendations?
― sleeve, Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link