We, at the Nu Cumbia Experience, are certainly cumbia-biased. But to talk about today’s release of Cuero Digital, Rebel Sounds+Latino Resiste’s freshest digital cumbia compilation, should not be a matter for hardcore cumbieros alone. I believe that the stature of the musicians featured, and the quality of the tracks inclu [...]
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Don’t Buy Music (Make It)! – A Lesson from Rebel Sounds+Latino Resiste
Don’t Buy Music (Make It)! – A ...
We, at the Nu Cumbia Experience, are certainly cumbia-biased. But to talk about today’s release of Cuero Digital, Rebel Sounds+Latino Resiste’s freshest digital cumbia compilation, should not be a matter for hardcore cumbieros alone. I believe that the stature of the musicians featured, and the quality of the tracks inclu [...]
The MIDI Comeback: A View for the Future from DJ Delay
The MIDI Comeback: A View for the Fut...
In my last post about nu cumbia, copyrights, and the new economic system based on the exploitation of emotions through social networking sites I suggested that, as a new medium for creative expression, the Internet is being regulated in ways that seem to cater to the monopolistic interests of the handful of corporations that dominate the ent [...]
Nu Cumbia, Nu Economy
Nu Cumbia, Nu Economy
Nu cumbia is unthinkable without the Internet. And it is not only that nu cumbia circulates through the web and that sites like Soundcloud, Mixcloud, and Facebook have become important channels for cumbia lovers, deejays, and producers. It is also that the deejay aesthetic of sampling and mixing that dominates the sound of nu cumbia completel [...]
The Old, the Ironic, and the Nu
The Old, the Ironic, and the Nu
A couple of days ago I read an excellent post by our well-known fellow cumbiero Juan Data in which he lists a series of traits that make nu cumbia, or neo-cumbia as he calls it, distinguishable from “just” cumbia. I strongly recommend anyone interested in knowing about what this electronic-dance-hip-hop-noise-leaning cumbia substyle is about [...]
Los vocabularios de sentimiento en la cumbia
Los vocabularios de sentimiento en la...
(My apologies to my non-Spanish speaking readers. This week’s post came to my mind in Spanish and I was afraid that much could be lost in translation).
Parece una contradicción que exista tanto escrito sobre música sin que el tema de los sentimientos sea abordado plenamente. Los académicos de la música parecemos haber relegado la idea de que [...]
The Technologies of Psychedelia (Chicha Libre at sxsw 2012)
The Technologies of Psychedelia (Chic...
(The video of Chicha Libre performing at sxsw is the one at the bottom of this post, in case you want to skip the boring part)
We usually think of technology as a collection of devices, tools, and instruments. But technology is also the knowledge about how to use those devices and about their purpose. Furthermore, technology affects the ways [...]
Nu Cumbia As a Music Genre
Nu Cumbia As a Music Genre
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been asking myself what would be the right way to define what nu cumbia is. Last week, I mentioned the apparently obvious fact that nu cumbia is a music genre. Now, I am not too sure that is entirely correct.
In music, a genre is an ideal model that gathers all of the musical pieces that share specific musica [...]
The Nu Cumbia Anti-Manifesto
The Nu Cumbia Anti-Manifesto
A manifesto is a public, usually written, declaration of intentions, rules to follow, and objectives. Most manifestos are political but there are also many examples of artistic manifestos in which a group of creators declare the aesthetic principles that are to guide their works. The existence of a manifesto implies that of a movement, that i [...]
