Nice remix with Romeo Santos as well:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BccyzhMWVmgArcangel ft. Sech & Romeo Santos • Sigue Con Él (Remix)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 21 May 2020 22:38 (four years ago) link
Sigues
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 21 May 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
Yea, Santos' balladeer style works well with the wispy reggaeton pop
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 May 2020 05:32 (four years ago) link
I know it’s not urbano, but NAAFI from CDMX is a very important contribution to underground latinx club/electronic/ experimental music https://naafi.bandcamp.com/
― heavymeddle, Monday, 25 May 2020 00:11 (four years ago) link
Here's a catch-all neoperreo list assembled by the label of the same name: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4WXOOhvawKi2ISUDzC9Hqv?si=aohU50RRSSCY--U44SCKPA
TECHGRL, El Plvybxy, Tomasa del Real are the most interesting to me.
― heavymeddle, Thursday, 28 May 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
Oh, Chilean Tomasa del Real was living in Los Angeles in 2019 (maybe still is).
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 May 2020 03:07 (four years ago) link
Harold López-Nussa - "Jazzton" feat. Randy Malcom (Official Video) ...Despite the use of "ton", I don't hear any reggaeton in this new track. But it's a fun one with a vocalist and some salsa and Latin jazz; plus dancers in the video leaping off the paper charts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wi_khLhqfc
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 May 2020 03:53 (four years ago) link
There's a new double album Annuel reggaeton release with lots of big name reggaeton guests
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 May 2020 03:56 (four years ago) link
http://remezcla.com/music/raymix-comes-out-as-gay/
some nice news about raymix
― dyl, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 05:06 (three years ago) link
Happy to hear it! I only knew him from his “Fake Lover”, which I’ve been having on medium rotation here, especially the remix with Lalo Ebratt et al:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8yAtl7z7kQRaymix ft. Lalo Ebratt, Yera, Skinny Happy, Trapical Minds & El Dusty • Fake Lover (Remix)
Listening to some of his stuff today, including smash hit “Oye Mujer”, I’m reminded me that I’ve been neglecting that “Inténtalo”-type Mexican sound for too long.
This is his current hit with Paulina Rubio, “Tú Y Yo”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvOp8bFbQBc
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 10:29 (three years ago) link
Seeing Beyonce holding a Robert Farris Thompson book had me curious what this Yale professor who knows African and Latin music as well as art is up to. Not sure , but here’s a 2019 essay about mambo he wrote
https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2020/03/21/essay-overture-ridding-passing-moments-their-fat/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 August 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
Farris Thompson appears to be on Facebook but not other social media. Wonder if he’s ever weighed in on reggaeton or more recent Afropop sounds ?
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 8 August 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
Wayne and wax Marshall says is "Reggaetonera" by Anuel AA has a Kraftwerk sample. I will have to listen again
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 04:40 (three years ago) link
Kraftwerk sample must be manipulated or subtle. Not that obvious
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
i couldn't hear it but ?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 13:44 (three years ago) link
Meanwhile in Billboard news:
As Ozuna’s “Caramelo” hits No. 1 on the Latin Airplay chart (dated Aug. 15), he nabs his 20th leader on the list which launched in 1994. The song hikes 5-1 in its eighth week on the chart (up 41% in audience impressions to 1 million, in the week ending Aug. 9, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data).
The new achievement places him in a tie with Daddy Yankee for the third-most No. 1s among all acts on Latin Airplay, both with 20. Above them are only Enrique Iglesias who continues at the helm with 31 No. 1s and J Balvin with 23
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
Singer Willie Torres (Joe Cuba Sextet, Alegre All Stars, Orlando Marin, La Playa Sextet, etc, etc...) passed away on Sunday. RIP
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 06:38 (three years ago) link
New Maluma reggaeton album out
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/9427944/best-latin-summer-songs-2020
I like KAROL G - Ay, DiOs Mío!
and Rosalia & Travis Scott - TKN
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 04:31 (three years ago) link
Karol G one is more pop
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 04:32 (three years ago) link
This long Carina del Valle Schorske interview piece is worth a read — discussion with him re salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe and his role as a rural working class icon plus re Tengo Calderon and how Tego would have been more popular if he was white ( but was always a legend to Bad Bunny)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/07/magazine/bad-bunny.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:46 (three years ago) link
Meanwhile Bad Bunny is in a tv commercial with Snoop Dogg for a beer while there are McDonald’s ads with the J Balvin meal
Saw both of these while watching NBA or baseball
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:48 (three years ago) link
they are both phenomenally popular mainstream artists, yes
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
No prior reggaeton artists were able to get this amount of mainstream popularity
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 03:46 (three years ago) link
That NY Times interview with Bad Bunny has a lot that is worth digging into and reading, btw.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link
Xp no argument! But about four have now.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
https://www.bluenotelive.com/eventsold/eddie-main
Eddie Palmieri afro-Caribbean Jazz sextet Thursday night stream from the Blue Note in NYC for $15
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 October 2020 03:11 (three years ago) link
I missed the Palmieri gig ( but have seen in him in the past with various bands and solo).
Spacing out on a new reggaeton song i heard in the car that impressed me.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 October 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
I dvr’d some of the Billboard Latin Music Awards on telemundo last night, and watched a little. Snoop rapped on Spanish with a Mexican traditional music group. “Calma” that has been out since at least April 2019, won best pop song.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
still really curious what reggaeton song you were spacing out on!
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
Natti Natasha w/ Zion & Lennox “Te Mueves “ is the song
https://youtu.be/ceuhJ9F99DM
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 October 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
I have liked certain Zion & Lennox songs in the past too, but have never really sat down and listened intently. They have performed in DC area multiple times and I have yet to see them ( but I should).
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 October 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link
yeah, “Te Mueves” is pretty good.
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 23 October 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
Am also liking Sech’s “Relacion” , although I kinda like the choir backing him up more than Sech on that cut
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 October 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
RIP Puerto Rican salsa singer Cano Estremera
https://heavy.com/entertainment/cano-estremera-death/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 October 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
RIP 99 years old Cuban percussionist Candido
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/arts/music/j-balvin-fortnite-concert.html
j Balvin did a Halloween concert on Fortnite
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 November 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
In recent years, thee gloriously notorious La Montra, AKA Rita Indiana, has become better known for her dystopian novels, but now she's back with Mandinga Times, which is pretty amazing, esp. on headphones, and well-covered here, by Daniel Alarcón:Last year, Indiana felt ready to come back to music. Much of the recording was done in the fall, just months after Puerto Rico’s most tumultuous time in recent memory, when two weeks of raucous street protests forced the resignation of the governor. The political energy of last summer is evident on the album; its songs, sung in the voice of Mandinga, Indiana’s gender-neutral alter ego, feel like anthems of discontent. The finishing touches were applied after the world had shut down, making the album feel less like a warning about a dark but still avoidable future and more like musical stenography documenting our current predicament. But, like Indiana’s earlier music, and like her work more broadly, “Mandinga Times” is also an immersion in hybridity: it’s merengue with a heavy-metal heart; it’s gagá mixed with thrash, reggaetón and punk, dembow, trap, and Middle Eastern melodies; it’s love songs and battle raps and protest music. When I asked Cabra to describe the album to me, he struggled. To say that it was eclectic was only half true, he said. In fact, each song was eclectic, diverse moods and styles alternating in a single track. “I find it hard to place Rita’s project within a genre,” he said. “If I describe how her music sounds, I think that takes away its power.” That's the album's producer, Eduardo Cabra, of the legendary Puerto Rican band Calle 13https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/26/rita-indianas-songs-for-the-apocalypse
― dow, Monday, 16 November 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
Looks like Emilio Solla won the Latin Grammy for Best Album. Haven't heard the record but just looking at the members of the band makes me want to hear it.
― Indieland Phil and Indieland Don (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 November 2020 01:22 (three years ago) link
Been watching some of it tonight on Univision. Saw Karol G song pop/ reggaeton; J Balvin reggaeton; some balladeers and some Mexican regional acts. Just now Pit Bull with a rap-rock group
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 November 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
X-post — Solla won for best Latin Jazz album
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 November 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
So he’s an Argentinian who moved to Spain and then US. This album with his tango jazz orchestra and guests came out in December 2019.
https://latinjazznet.com/reviews/cds/featured-albums/emilio-solla-tango-jazz-orchestra-puertos-music-from-international-waters/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 November 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
Residente won song of the year for “Rene” beating out some bigger names
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 November 2020 03:41 (three years ago) link
Natalia Lafourcade beating out Bad Bunny for Latin Grammys album of the year
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 November 2020 03:58 (three years ago) link
Good.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 20 November 2020 04:00 (three years ago) link
Natalia Lafourcade’s “Un Canto por México Vol. 1, got an honorable mention from Amanda Petrusich in the New Yorker.
The only Latinx album she listed . None in her top 10
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 04:07 (three years ago) link
I kinda like both. Lafourcade has moved away from the pop/rock En espanol she was doing to a more traditional Mexican sound with horns and such.
Bad Bunny bends the framework of reggaeton a bit, and sometimes gives subtle nods to some salsa greats he loves
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
Lido Pimienta and Bad Bunny in the NPR top 10 ( list is longer than 10)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
This X Alfonso album by a Cuban guy into hiphop and more that’s in the bottom of the NPR top 50 album list looks intriguing
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
loving the Natalia Lafourcade
― Heez, Thursday, 3 December 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link