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Matias Aguayo Is Back and Friskier Than Ever in “El Suco Tuco”
In 2009's Ay Ay Ay, Matias Aguayo brought the boombox (bumbumbox) culture of street parties in Buenos Aires to the world's ears. The Chilean-German (by way of...
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Gustavo Santaolalla Talks Bajofondo, And Why Most Electro-Tango Sucks
The Argentinean-Uruguayan collective turns 10, releases a 3rd album, and dares the competition to catch up
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PREMIERE: Bajofondo — “Pide Piso”
Uruguay-Argentina crew Bajofondo is back after a six-year hiatus with their new album Presente, and this time, they're taking the electro-tango sound that made them...
interview
ZZK’s El G on Starting an Electro Cumbia Party and Keeping it Going
Over the last six years, ZZK has grown from being an underground digital cumbia dance party in Buenos Aires to being a world famous dance party that's also a record...
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New From ZZK: Chancha Via Circuito’s Semillas EP
One of the most sincerely esteemed artists on the ZZK label roster, Argentina's Chancha Via Circuito filters folkloric rhythms through modern production and...
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Kumbia Queers Punk the Party Bus in New Video
Everyone's favorite Argentinian queercore cumbieros Kumbia Queers make party buses awesome in the new video for "Kumbia Punk" off this year's Pecados Tropicales. Climb...
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Alika & Nueva Alianza: Irie in Argentina
Name: Alika & Nueva Alianza
Where They’re From: Buenos Aires, Argentina
When They Started: 1999
Genre: Reggae Villera
Most Similar: Fidel Nadal, La Mala...
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Alika & Nueva Alianza — “Jengibre”
Alika & Nueva Alianza provide an added dose of heat to hip hop with “Jengibre.” We dig Alika’s steady stream of Spanish words, the catchy chorus and Friday...
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There Is No Antidote For Argentina’s Veneno
Name: Veneno
Where He's From: Argentina
Genre: Dance
Most Similar: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Justice
When He Started: 2012
Sounds Like: Buenos...
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Capsula Shine In the Dark
Capsula's music is a swirl of guitar fuzz with a glam rock center, so it makes sense that for our photo shoot, we went art rock extreme. High contrast and high kicks --...
interview
Pan-Spanish Garage Rockers Capsula Reinvent Bowie
Capsula are the nicest garage rockers operating in Basque country. The trio, guitarist and singer Martin Guevera, bassist and vocalist Coni Duchess and drummer Ignacio...
review
Various Artists — Future Sounds of Buenos Aires
It’s a match made in electronic music heaven. He is a collective of electronic producers doing weird and wacky things with cumbia in Buenos Aires. She is a...
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Capsula’s “Hit’n'Miss” Meets the Mark
Argentinian-bred, Spanish-based trio Capsula had a big year. They drummed up major buzz at SXSW, garnering a four-star review for their sophomore album In the Land of...
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La Yegros Brings Female Touch To Argentina’s Nu-Cumbia Scene
Argentina’s ZZK crew have revolutionized the Buenos Aires scene by infecting the hipsters of the well-heeled north side of town with a taste for cumbia, but when it...
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Ya by Banda De Turistas
Let’s face it, Buenos Aires is a nostalgic rock and roll kind of city, where mullets never died and the Rolling Stones are more of an object of religious worship than a...
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Los Animales Superforros Bring Trippy Psych-Folk to Buenos Aires
Weaving together Argentinean folk music, lonely psychedelic soundscapes, fantastical children’s tales, and at least one ill-advised pun, Los Animales Superforros are...
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Manshines by Fauna
Amidst a flurry of overly experimental albums from pioneering Buenos Aires collective ZZK, Fauna’s sophomore disc Manshines reminds us why we collectively fell in love...
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Electro-Cumbia DJs Zizek hit Europe, Drop Hot New Mixtape
We can't think of a better way to welcome the weekend than by listening to some fresh, new digital cumbia by Zizek Records collective member El Remolón. The Argentinean...
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Las Kellies’s Shimmy, Shake, and Sass
Post-punk can mean a lot of things these days. Most of the time, when someone tells you a current band plays post-punk it’s a nice way of saying they sound like some...
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Self-Titled by Las Kellies
Summer playlist sounding limp and malnourished? Ditch The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and grab Las Kellies' self-titled third album. This latest vitamin-packed release...