latin american hipster shit

much love for the javiera mena and the pau y amigos stuff i've heard i have LOVED. what's some more contemporary music w/ this vibe? what are some antecedents? can not get enough of 'fuego al juego'.

I spent the last summer in Mexico and all the girls I met were super-super into this shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O_O4XesuA4

agony.

I like Belanova, but think they're a little more pop than hipster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcR1KbbhRTs

When did Cholas become hipsters? Are Cholas the next level of hipsters? Are pencil eyebrows the new horn rimmed glasses?

So funny, I spent countless hours listen to that song in random dude's cars hitchin. im so bohemian, just look at my transtition to little capitalization and feelings of apathy for that spelling error i just made. apathy bro.

yeah ive been listening to this song heeeeaps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0rvhAoM-sc

this is going to be a dope thread, thx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBV6IKsuk8M
El Remolon and Lido Pimienta - "Basta Ya"

You read Club Fonograma, right?

No, but thanks. Good thread

So Chilean-popper Javier Mena is a game-changer. http://themusictrail.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/hello-my-name-is-javiera-mena/

While I've been checking out working-class Mexican (and Mexican-American) duranguese sounds (and ocassionally keeping up on Afro-Peruvian ones) I've missed out on this.

Yeah, she rules.

have a lot of love for her

I have no idea if this is hipster or not, but a friend introduced me to this song a few weeks ago and it's pretty good. Not sure where she's from, but doesn't sound Mexican or Central American at all. Could be Spanish or Argentine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQeNAu4XWDA

Super poppy though

http://www.clubfonograma.com/2009/12/club-fonogramas-best-albums-of-decade_23.html

Ok, I know some of these.

This year's Julieta Venegas cd (she's Mexican) was disappointing to me. Poppy but she's stuck in a rut, and the hooks weren't as distinctive.

And I have seen that site before.

what are some antecedents?

CSS hahahaha lol

also Cibelle and maybe also Ceu are obviously pretty big touchstones/crossover for Javiera.

Right. Brazilians have been meshing their sounds with North of the equator Anglo ones for quite awhile.

looking forward to checkin out all this other stuff but for posterity

javiera mena

Sometimes this stuff is just stereotypical indie/Pitchfork music in Spanish.

I've noticed that.

north america is so 2009

this song is pretty great -- 1977, ana tijoux (chile)
i also like the use of trad latin horns -- makes it different than pfork en español
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiQ7S38nKog

also it is not indie rock, so

Well Pitchfork folks like some rap too. But yep, there are lots of different scenes and genres and defining who's in which one gets difficult (and deciding that one is more important than another or a blog doing this gets kinda silly). She's mentioned on another ilx thread--

spanish language hip-hop

hey i guess hip hop is hipster shit too, right? i like her a lot. she's got nerve.

important things i learned from this thread: hipsters probably don't like hip hop, only like stereotypical pitchfork indie.

Sometimes

I don't know if this counts as Latin American hipster shit or not, but the general style is my favorite recent Latin American discovery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IoXKOKFjsE

i really like that. but, yeah, hipsters probably wouldn't. whoever the hell they are.

I'm really into Belanova, have been since their first album. Also like almost everything that comes out on Nacional Records in the US.

x-pssst

I don't know. How would you describe this demographic, other than probably very horny young Mexicans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRV7WVr_-qQ

(I know I'm guilty of linking to the same shit in multiple ILM threads.)

"I thought there were going to be more girls here."

huh not quite as much dancing as i would expect there

i like the sound of it though

That's what I was saying on another thread: the crowd looks like it's not sure it knows what to do with it. I think maybe Puerto Ricans need to steal tribal guarachero and claim it as their own and piss everyone off. At least there will be more dancing.

(I should give credit to fauxmarc for turning me onto this stuff.)

i was watching live footage of lenny dee spinning hardcore for drunk kids around the globe for HOURS the other night. lenny in scotland! lenny in croatia! i don't know what was wrong with me. well, i was stoned, but still...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qFSftDa7zA&feature=related

has nothing to do with this thread though so just disregard.

Singles Jukebox review roundups of songs by:

Rita Indiana & Los Misterios

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=2938

Javiera Mena

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=2825

Natalia Lafourcade

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=879

Calle 13 (assuming they're hipster enough to qualify for this thread)

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=860

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=41

Fwiw, I was really into Latin alternative stuff in the early/mid '90s (when people still called it "rock en español"), for a while there almost to the exclusion of everything else. Even went to Mexico a couple times to interview bands like Caifanes and Fobia. But none of this newer stuff has done much for me, and a lot of it just makes me shrug my shoulders. Probably I just haven't heard the right records. I did kind of like the Garotas Suecas album on American Dust, Escaldante Banda, this year, though.

zmog, why did you link to that... is that a parody site?

there's a lot of dancing in that rincon - i mean since tribal's "new" in musical years it's not like there's an official traditional partner dance for it - most of that bouncing seen isn't too different from what you see end up with when cumbia or pasito durango is on and people are dancing by themselves. with some self-consciousness added as i think that's mostly highschoolers.

but re: original thread latin american hipster shit is just as "precious" and tired as non-latin american hipster shit but with more ska as someone mentioned in another thread

x-pssst

Lol, I was not expecting partner dancing.

unfortunately the potential partner dancing is all i can see in my head now.

i wasn't really expecting partner dancing either, just a little more energy? oh well. what's this about not knowing how to dance to cumbia -- i always thought of cumbia as super trad (ie not at all hipster)?

nah wasn't saying cumbia isn't traditional, just comparing the solo-bouncing you can find at cumbia parties with what's in the rincon vid, but i hear what's said re: energy

The Sexy Fi album is some decent Brazilian art rock hipster shit that I haven't seen many people pick up on:

http://soundcloud.com/sexyfi/pequeno-dicion-rio-das-ruas

wouldn't call this hipster but it's latin, bose is good as usual and the lady looks stunning.

v chic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnCQlCqjvqo

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/44256/los-master-plus-at-tropicalia-friday-may-3/

cumbiatronica but also influenced by 1950s singer/actor El Piporro, 1960s bolero-rock combo Los Angeles Negros,

http://quebajo.com/cinco-de-gallo-2013/

In Nueva York Saturday night

Los Master Plus were noveltyish but still fun live Friday night. They'ge got a Los Angeles gig coming up I think, and then back to Mexico

It's a kind of reverse-colonial legerdemain to post Bflecha here but there's no thread for Spanish hipster shit iirc and followers of LAHM will probably be into this album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWsaaMUPGOo

everything I've listened to in this thread is a little disappointing

except that original sound of cumbia comp, which rules, thx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBwR9haNt0o

hey this whole Fredi Michel album is pretty awesome, thx for rec!

Is this hipster-ish? IDK but I like this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTr9HMnAWNE

http://i.imgur.com/iIKQ1nv.png

magic realism fart jokes a+

Posted this on another thread, but will try again here to see if anyone else has listened to the album:

And was listening to the new Jorge Drexler album this morning. Caetano Veloso and rapper Ana Tijoux guest on it. So far I like Drexler's pop-rock en espanol. Some nice vocal melodies

― curmudgeon, Thursday, April 24, 2014 1

New from the AJ Davila camp: https://soundcloud.com/lolapistola/tu-pensabas

Saw on the Not Pop Not Indie Shambhala thread but it seems like it belongs here too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVEtutalobA

Alex Anwandter returns!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CLEcVaVbW4

Doesn't sound like a big departure from his previous house/disco sound ...but who could possible get tired of that? No word yet on whether Cristian Heyne is involved.

Full song. Exactly what you would expect from the clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecC-HMZPPMs

Brilliant bit starting at 1:50.

whoa this is great

just saw on club fonograma that the full Anwandter album is out, still on the first listen, but its very nice so far

http://www.clubfonograma.com/2016/04/alex-anwandter-amiga.html

I think Cordillera is my favourite on first run thru, love its just full on going for the jugular

yeah so el sonido de los corazones que is a tour de force. the title track is a jam too, this album is my shit. will try to limit my gushing to these four posts, heh

back to say upon repeated listens the quieter final third of this album is great

New Selma Oxor (though this might be a new collection of old singles):

https://selmaoxor.bandcamp.com/album/fantasias-de-tocador
https://open.spotify.com/album/7AqqbQLYwUlILY9vVJoHBJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwW2OA561c0

alex anwandter's "siempre es viernes en mi corazon" is very good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTUWwUUa1WE

laid-back summer jam from the Dominican Republic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMORdzduQ6M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL9vARAAxjs

That MULA jam is really really great...and after investigating in them a little more, most of their stuff is.

Do Femina from Argentina or Ile (sister from Calle 13) fit in this thread?

I don't really think iLe does aside from the final track from the album, which I just posted.

I don't know anything about this, but it seems like it goes here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP38cVlmjjM

That MULA jam is really really great...and after investigating in them a little more, most of their stuff is.

― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Monday, August 29, 2016 12:49 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agreed, awesomely laid back, really great song. will listen to more of their stuff

No mention of Maria Usbeck upthread. She belongs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6-iqQ7KAoU

I just heard Bomba Estéreo for the first time this evening and I'm really surprised that there is only one mention of them on this thread. They are pretty incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgjRPk4E6Eg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QaJ_TMYR8Y

Bomba Estereo have been mentioned on the various yearly Afro-Latin threads.

La Lechera has talked them up a lot, maybe mostly not even on the Afro-Latin threads.

(Not feeling well and don't have the mental focus for much of anything, which is why I'm joining you in these go nowhere comments.)

Yeah, I had a feeling I probably missed it somewhere. I don't think I've ever checked out those Afro-Latin threads before. Either way, it seems like it would fit in here.

I'm not crazy about Bomba Estereo vocals, but many of the rest of you seem to be fine with them

I'm not a fan of the band in general. I don't dislike them, but they never really made much of an impression on me.

Another 2016 single that qualifies.

Modular - Fiebre En La Disco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omFjFIyjjVg

Love this new MULA: https://mulaband.bandcamp.com/track/fugitiva

Listening to Natalia Lafourcade's Hasta la Raiz for the first time in a while. Man, this album is so good.

jaymc- that's a contemporary standard imo.

this song has come to mean so much to my life. idk man, can i keep going like this? not seen much chat about this band here and they're full of these sorts of delights. didn't know where else to post-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAmCQ_vL7w8

bomba estereo - "el alma y el cuerpo" (2012)

i don't even know if she fits in here, but this ely guerra tune is so dreamy and glorious. get lost in that guitar. wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpO6b4DdWQ4

ely guerra - "colmena" (2009)

I thought the Alex Anwandter album from this year was pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6U1lF9TI30

Some latinamerican hipster shit I’ve been enjoying in the past couple years:

(Mexico) Tonga Conga - Mira Bien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCal34JvxfE

(Colombia) Cero39 - Hipnotico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBAzpGPcRGk

(Chile) Chicarica - la noche de ayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe71GxCSmTE

(Chile) Playa Gótica - Fuego
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aC-AjwVetU

(Mexico) Clubz - nagano feat. ela minus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-uiiycDKaA

(Mexico) Disco Bahia - Necedad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCIrRX70EVo

This one is from the 80’s but got revived earlier this year by hipsters. Lucia Mendez is a mexican celebrity mainly known as an actress for soap operas, and a popular ranchera and ballad singer… but she also made a post-punk song in 1983… years before several popular rock bands from Latin America were influenced by the genre which is a bit funny:

Lucia Mendez - Margarita

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_GOQ3aXybw

It’s also non-ironically a pretty good song.

ground control to major tom babyyyyy