{"id":377,"date":"2008-05-29T18:18:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T23:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:07:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:07:27","slug":"cumbow-combow-combo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"Cumbow Combow Combo"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I linkthunk<\/a> yesterday, I was gassed to hear (via \/rupture<\/a>) a reggaeton-inflected remix of some Mexican cumbia (video here<\/a>). I was doubly gassed tho to see it labeled “cumbow,” which I took to mean cumbia + dembow or, perhaps, “with (dem)bow,” as in cum<\/em> bow, to employ a little Latin, a la the Spanish descendent con<\/em>. Now maybe that latter interp is a stretch, but this afternoon it was brought to my attn that there’s another, similar remix by the same crew<\/a>, except that this one is labeled “combow,” which seems to suggest the con\/combo meaning. Anywho, check it out —<\/p>\n

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What’s especially interesting to me about this one is that, whereas the Julieta Venegas version<\/a> employs dembow-style snares<\/a> (that ol’ 3+3+2), the remix for Miranda features one of the very same loops \/ samples used in a great many reggaeton songs. So in this case, remarkably and quite audibly (to me?), it’s not even a matter of bringing in “dembow” \/ reggaeton rhythms — which is essentially what the Venegas version does with its 3+3+2 snares<\/a> (not a common characteristic in cumbia) — it’s actually the use of the very same drum samples used in reggaeton. Compare the Fever Pitch<\/a> \/ Bam Bam<\/a> -derived intro from Lady Saw’s “Rich Girl” (a common sample-source for reggaeton producers) to the ticking drum track running through the Miranda song. Rings a bell, no?<\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/embed>If I Was A Rich Girl – Lady Saw<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n

Not only does this show how Sonidero Nacional are able to produce a reggaeton-y sound thru a well-informed production touch, this is a great example of reggaeton’s continued resonance and influence. What perhaps makes it even more remarkable is how subtle the incorporation is. I suspect that neither of these tunes necessarily screams “reggaeton!” to most listeners. A colleague who writes about cumbia didn’t hear reggaeton in them at all. <\/p>\n

Do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I linkthunk yesterday, I was gassed to hear (via \/rupture) a reggaeton-inflected remix of some Mexican cumbia (video here). I was doubly gassed tho to see it labeled “cumbow,” which I took to mean cumbia + dembow or, perhaps, “with (dem)bow,” as in cum bow, to employ a little Latin, a la the Spanish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,10,87,405,421,209,407],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cumbia","tag-latin","tag-mexico","tag-reggaeton","tag-remix","tag-sampling","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8516,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/8516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}