Last week Saturday was the Dutch national day, formerly known as Queen’s Day, when we still had a queen, this year it was King’s Day for the first time. And if you are living in the city centre one of the world’s metropoles, there is some chance you may have run into a Dutch party where everyone is dressed in the national colour of orange. I’d be a lot happier if I could have said I skipped last week’s Sexxy Saturday Cumbia because I had to recovering from an extended hangover, but nope, not for me this year. Study duties continue being harsh on me.. But I’ve finished most of it by now so.. time for some serious blogging relaxation! But it’s ‘late’ (beyond any normal meaning of that word), so let’s move on to cumbia directly.. A couple of days back I was having a conversation with one of the creators of Regional Label about digital cumbia and transnational bass as scenes, and how these are doing in Chile. Then I showed me this amazing project from the late 90s.. which were one of the first if not the very first musicians to ever mix tropical latin with electronic music. Gonzalo […]
