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Album Review: El Búho – ‘Strata’: Cumbia infused electronica to celebrate and satisfy.

  • November 3, 2023
  • John Parry
If anyone was going to justifiably lay claim to the tags ‘organic electronics’ or ‘natural electronica’ with any degree of credibility then that must be El Búho. The UK producer/DJ,…
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Say Psych: Album Review: Los Bitchos – Let The Festivities Begin!

  • February 16, 2022
  • Le Crowley
London’s Los Bitchos have finally released their debut LP, aptly titled Let the Festivities Begin! It invokes panthers prowling through a desert, cowgirls swaggering into a saloon and kicking up…
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Say Psych: Interview: Los Bitchos

  • January 12, 2022
  • Le Crowley
London-based, pan-continental female instrumental four-piece Los Bitchos yesterday shared the video to their latest single ‘Pista (Fresh Start)’. We caught up with them recently to discuss all things Bitchos… Hey…
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Track: Las Calakas – Morena

  • August 13, 2021
  • Craig Young
Cumbia fusión band Las Calakas, have announced their debut full length album will be out in Spring 2022, after signing to Los Angeles based label My Grito Industries. They have shared a track…
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Premiere: Los Esplifs – ‘Perro Rabioso’: Tucson psych-cumbia outfit go roamin’ for a (rabid) hot dog

  • April 8, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
DO YOU have a particular penchant for those liminal musical zones, the subduction zones where musical tectonic plates bend and upheave and buckle and melt into one another? Particularly, perhaps,…
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NEWS: World Circuit to reissue ‘Cumbia Cumbia 1 & 2’ and Ali Farka Touré’s ‘Red’ on vinyl

  • February 27, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
REVERED label World Circuit has taken a dive into the halls of its back catalogue and has announced vinyl pressings for two albums that will surely please fans of the…
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SEE: The video for XIXA’s ‘Eclipse’: Tucson barrio sextet go back to their roots

  • January 28, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
FOLLOWING on down that seductive, dusty road from their previous singles, September’s “Genesis of Gaea” and late October’s “May They Call Us Home”, Tucson’s TexMex rock fusioneers XIXA have dropped…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Various Artists – Selva Selects: Thunder Claps: a year in Quantic’s superb new imprint

  • November 9, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
Selva Selects: Thunder Claps wins big in touching on so many tangents in the world of music, da funk, da disco, Latin, electro: it's so eclectic, but it all works because Quantic is like a dowsing rod for a great tune. He's the constant, the overseer, the constant thread, and this compilation is the absolute mustard. Year-end podium position tackle.
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SEE: XIXA – ‘May They Call Us Home’: where desert rock meets cumbia

  • October 29, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
COMING atcha suited and booted, dusty with the long ride in from Tucson, AZ, XIXA have released the second single from their forthcoming album, “May They Call Us Home”. You…
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Say Psych: Track Review: Los Bitchos – Tripping Party

  • October 14, 2017
  • Le Crowley
Rating: 7/10 Cassette only DIY label Blak Hand Records are known for finding gems and thrusting them forward, and their latest release from London ladies Los Bitchos is no exception.…
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