Altered Zones

Travis Egedy of Pictureplane says:
Recently I was hanging out with Nick Weiss from Teengirl Fantasy in Chicago, and we were sharing music we liked before we performed at a gay club called Berlin. We were discussing our shared interest in digital cumbia, so he hipped me to a new sound from Monterrey, Mexico called "Tribal" (pronounced "tree-ball") that DJs like Nguzunguzu and Total Freedom are really getting into heavy right now. The tribal style is based in traditional cumbia riddims and time signatures, but what's different is the use of very ravey synths, cut-up samples, and emphasis on the loop. It's like techno cumbia and its fucking MASSIVE. What's awesome is that it's the sound of the youth; Erick Rincon is kinda the top dog for tribal at the moment, and he's only 17, so it's all very fresh and contemporary. Toy Selectah is like all about this shit right now and is doing a proper release by him and some of the scene's top producers, like Sheeqo Beat and DJ Otto, who are both 18. I bet that we'll be hearing a lot more of this sound in the next year.

MP3: Erick Rincon: "Amantes Guaracheros"

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