If I thought something was poppin in the state of Denmark<\/a>, I have no idea que pasa<\/em> en Argentina.<\/p>\n The ol’ blogosphere radar has been registering lots of blips from that southmost outpost in South America. I mentioned the Frikstailers<\/a> a little while back, for instance. And of course, there’s the whole cumbia rebajada movimiento<\/a>, which seems to have strong routes thru Buenos Aires. <\/p>\n Recently I’ve been digging (into) lots of “local” mashups from that neck of the woods. & I like how a lot of them depart from the tried-and-true calculus of recognizable-acapella + recognizable-instrumental, even if that gets them closer to sounding like “remixes” than “mashups” for most of us. (We need not split hairs on that count, at least not again<\/a>.) Instead, these Argentinian mashaperos<\/em> weld (relatively) familiar acapellas to backings by some fine up-and-coming Argentinian beatsmiths. Pretty soon every city will be doing this (we hope). Currently, C\u00c3\u00b3rdoba is representin. Buenos Aires tambi\u00c3\u00a9n.<\/p>\n To wit: check out Villa Diamante’s mash of Calle 13 and the Frikstailers (two of my LatinAm faves!) over at MuyBastard<\/a>. As he puts it, “como buen mashapero,” Diamante<\/a> goes a little further with this mix, adding his own touches to the ol’ A + B formula —<\/p>\n Villa Diamante \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Frikstailers vs Calle 13 …<\/p>\n Notably, MuyBastard also points us to a nice’n’noisy remix of Calle 13’s “Cumbia de los Aburridos” over at Sonidero Nacional’s space<\/a>. <\/p>\n I say notably because that’s the same Calle 13 track I’ve been screwing with myself of late. So allow me to close this post by getting in on the sharing: here’s a screwed’n’chopped’n’dubbed versi\u00c3\u00b3n I’ve been improvising in some recent rebajada sets I’ve been working on —<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>[audio:http:\/\/www.diamantestyle.com.ar\/mp\/VillaDiamante-FrikstailersvsCalle13.mp3]<\/p>\n