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Music Recs by Gabe

Album: Son de los Diablos [2018] Artists: Dengue Dengue Dengue Review: Psychedelic electronic noise over traditional Latin American rhythms. Acoustic percussion heavy. Worth checking out other albums. Favorite Tracks: Tags: World; Afro-Latinx ; Rhythm ; House ; Electronic ; Drum and Bass

Album: Rio Arriba Artists: Chancha Via Circuito Review:  Great collabs on this album as well as their own work. Ambient south American, heavy percussive with electric overtones sometimes. Low key and rhythmic. Their other albums are great too. Definitely a unique fusion that is both heady and body-hypnotic. Favorite Tracks: Tags: Electronic ; Bass; Latin ; World ; Cumbia ; Dub ; House ; Fusion

Album: Only the Sun is Full of Gold Artists: Cankun Review: Really great, smooth album full of heady noise, uplifting riffs, more accessible jams and experimental longform tangents. Great flow from one track to the next, no words, fairly ambient and downtempo but some tracks do pick up with a decent beat. Favorite Tracks: Words, Trezz, Cuts Tags: Psychedelic ; Rock ; Experimental ; Electronic ; Abstract ; Funk ; House ; Tropical ; Ambient ; French Other: Reminds me of a more mellow boards of canada and or bitchin bajas

Album: Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band Artists: Khun Narin Review: Great album! Psychedelic Thai street performers with influences from Thai wedding music to Western rock. Just one of the best jam albums ever, songs last forever and are great for focusing. Really unique sound Favorite Tracks: Tags: World ; Thai ; Psychedelic ; Rock ; Fusion ; Jam ; Progressive ; Traditional Other:

Album: Amajovi Jovi Artists: Sandy B Review: A great Kwaito album (a distinctly South African genre, born of the townships. Can be related to American hip hop or rap but has a distinctive rhythm). Definitely groovy and pretty chill, strong rhythmic drives. I don’t know if I’d call it either singing or rapping, rhythmic talking? Very good either way. Favorite Tracks: Amivoji Jovi (title track) Tags: World ; Africa ; South Africa ; Kwaito ; R & B ; Soul ; Drums n Bass ; Traditional Other:

Album: SAB SE PURANI BAB Artists: SAICOBAB Review: wEird as shit. Haha. A fusion between Japanese and Indian traditional music with some more modern experimental and electronic notions. This album makes me feel like I’m experiencing a crazed or psychotic frenzy. High energy, lots of female shrieking and random vocal noises. Definitely interesting. Favorite Tracks: AWAWAW Tags: World ; India ; Japan ; Experimental ; Vocal ; Female ; Traditional Other:

Album: Synthesize the Soul : Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica from the Cape Verde Islands 1973-1998 Artists: Compilation (Various) Review: Great, great high energy album with a lot of varied voices and styles. This is the ultimate dance party music, but I mean dance dance, traditional grooves spanish style dancin’ (not rave dancin’). Well I had no idea where the Cape Verde Islands were, but they’re off the East coast of Africa, and were a colony of Portugal for a while. You can definitely hear that, the music is a creole of that distinctive spanish (portuguese) beat, tempo, and style, but also the unique Afro sound of their particular islands. I like this album because it features a lot of artists that I would also recommend looking up, because they have all put out their own work that is just great. Favorite Tracks: Danca Danca t’Manche (sorry can’t do those fancy symbols on here) Tags: Compilation ; World ; Africa ; Spain ; Latin ; Dance ; Traditional ; Swing Other:

Album: Black Trash, White House Artists: Guayaba Review: Damn. Guayaba fucking kills it. She is hardcore like no one else I’ve listened to, she makes me want to start a revolution by killing cis white men asap. Lyrics are really powerful and just has a great heavy rhythm. She’s Afro-Latinx, Queer, fat, and says as much in her tracks. GO OFF Favorite Tracks: Tags: World; African-American ; Latin ; Experimental ; Hip-hop; Rap ; Queer Other: saw her in seattle  she was amazing

Album: Afro-Beat Airways: Ghana & Togo 1974-1978 Artists: Various (Compilation) Review: Another amazing album that was a difficult find but seems to have this sort of cult following. They recently repressed it as vinyl so it’s been showing up in various DJ mixes which is pretty cool. The album itself is super varied, we’ve got some slower traditional tracks, some upbeat grooves, and so many instruments I can’t even begin to name them all. Tons of vocal talent, the vibe of the album is generally pretty melodic and upbeat. Again, would recommend looking up any of the individual artists bc a lot have put out their own music/been in bands that are good stuff! Favorite Tracks: Tags: World ; Africa ; Funk ; Traditional ; Soul ; Folk ; Afrobeat Other:

Album: Inversions, Prender el Alma Artists: Nicola Cruz Review: Ecuadorian music that is an interesting blend of the siku, a traditional andean wind instrument, electronic rhythm, and spiritual (ancestral) Latin american sounds. I’ve never heard anything quite like this. In doing research, he’s actually played boiler room and been a leader in this contemporary resurgence in Ecuador/Latin America, where they’re honoring and continuing music traditions while blending in really unique and globally-accessible electronic elements. All the tracks are just delicious I would love to see him live. Favorite Tracks: Folha de Jurema Tags: World; Electronic ; Traditional ; Fusion ; Dance ; Techno ; Latin ; Africa Other: see also - Chancha Via Circuito

-------- so if it has a tag "traditional" it is on the more acoustic side of the spectrum, and if it has the tag "electronic" then its... ya electronic haha . less likely to have acoustic elements.you can control f for tags if you want a specific continent (africa, latin america, etc)