Waxploitation Artists and ZZK Records present the launch of their latest brainchild, Future Sounds of Buenos Aires.
A few years ago you would have thought it impossible to hear a Norwegian say “I love cumbia” or watch a New Yorker dance chacarera. But now thanks to ZZK Records and their global bass counterparts worldwide, South American cumbia beats and Argentine folklore are major players on the urban music map across the globe. ZZK Records is independent record label based in Buenos Aires that has been expanding the borders of Argentine music for the past 4 years. FSOBA is an album compiling the key players in the Argentine electronic scene that are famous for revolutionizing traditional music from the roots of South America by updating it to the digital world of 2012 in which we live. FSOBA is a project that draws on an international and multi-media digital arts platform, including the hottest tracks from the Buenos Aires urban underground to cross-continental collaborations, remixes, videoclips, international concerts in Buenos Aires, and a variety of encounters between artists from all over the world interacting with and getting involved in the electronic scene in Buenos Aires in Argentina and from abroad.
The album contains tracks from all star producers and bands including Chancha via Circuito, Mati Zundel, Frikstailers, Super Guachin, Fauna, La Yegros, Tremor, El Remolón featuring Lido Pimienta, King Coya, The Peronists, El Trip Selector and Daleduro. FSOBA is an official presentation of the Buenos Aires electronic underground to the world through a wild dance party of twelve hard hitting tracks from past, present and future.
We just turned 4 this past March! Here is what our artists have been up to to celebrate!
EL REMOLONwill be presenting the music he composed for the documentary film Boxeo Constitución live at the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival!
This cumbia based soundtrack, soon to be released on ZZK Records, takes the audience through the history of the Boxeo Ferrobaires gym, underground the Constitución train station in Buenos Aires.
Friday April 13th at 22hrs in the Auditiorium of the Abasto Shopping Center
Just before their trip to Sao Paulo to perform in the Sonar Festival, Super Guachin played a show in Buenos Aires with two of the most important icons in the global bass scene: Skrillex and Bassnectar. The bass representatives of ZZK Records were present as openers in a show with nearly 2,000 people in Palermo Groove.
Here they are, Super Guachin!
KING COYAjust returned from La Paz, Bolivia, where he was giving a talk at the Red Bull Music Academy about mixing electronic music with folklore and working Andean influences into urban rhythms. After the talk he played a live set with some of his favorite new tracks and remixes that you can stream on RBMA Radio! Check it out HERE!
The set features a totally unique playlist of King Coya's latest live shows with a variety of surprises including some advances of his and La Yegros's upcoming releases!
01. LINDA FLOR - BALVINA RAMOS-GABY KERPEL (King Coya Down Tempo Remix)
02. PUSSY - BRAZILIAN GIRLS (Gaby Kerpel Folk Remix)
03. TU MANERA DE - GABY KERPEL-TERRAPLEN
04. DON AXELINO - TREMOR vs KING COYA vocals by AXEL KRYGIER
05. TONADA DE CARNAVAL - BALVINA RAMOS - GABY KERPEL
06. CUMBIA VERTIENTE - GABY KERPEL-KING COYA
07. LINDA FLOR - BALVINA RAMOS-GABY KERPEL (Original Version)
08. YA NO LLORES - LA YEGROS feat MISS BOLIVIA Produced by KING COYA
09. EL PALOMO - SEXTETO TABALA Remixed BY KING COYA
Surely many girls will be anxiously waiting at Ezeiza Airport this week for FAUNA to return home after a successful short European tour. The boys from Mendoza played four shows in Belgium, Switzerland and France... and of course left the dance floors hot and their European fans asking for more!
This Friday, April 13th, LA YEGROS will perform with her full band at the Buenos Aires International Folklore Festival (with a surprise Sunday performance by TREMOR!). The festival is all outdoors with free admission in the beautiful city of La Plata! The ZZK Records crew will be present at the festival at the conference portion of the festival, from the business circle meetings to dancing at the live shows!
Today, Waxploitation / ZZK Records is excited to release experimental dance producer Mati Zundel aka Lagartijeando’s new album Amazonico Gravitante. To celebrate the release of Mati’s stateside debut, NPR Music is currently streaming the album in its entirety. Predicting that “Mati Zundel is about to become a household name among music lovers in the U.S.,” NPR is exclusively streaming the album this week.
A veteran of Buenos Aires’ famed Club Zizek and one of the leading members of ZZK Records, Mati has emerged as one of Buenos Aires’ premier producers, pioneering a style that fuses experimental dance with everything from cumbia to bass music. Mati’s debut album Amazonico Gravitante blends dance music with música típica, a combination of tinku, huaynos, charangueada y bomba with electronic textures. Shaman chants and charango guitar loops form the backbone of Mati's songs, and tribal chants create the backbeat to percussion and bass. The result is a furiously original style that takes indigenous roots, and layers it with a contemporary sensibility, maintaining respect for ritual and tradition while pushing classic Latin influences into a cosmic future.
Mati's collaborations on the album create a musical map of his journeys traveling and composing throughout South America. Starting with Miss Bolivia from Argentina to Mexico by way of Canada via Boogat, to Uruguay with El Socio and heading up to Bolivia with Ciudad Satelite.
Mati Zundel aka Lagartijeando: Raised on rhythms of the Argentinian backwoods, dips his dance tracks in country folk gold where chacareras, huaynos, and vidalas two step with jungle and electronica. Shaman chant and charango guitar loops are the backbone of Mati Zundel's signature style. Native voices are the backbeat to percussion and bass tracks with organ melodies combining cumbia and psychedelic noise. Songs give deference to ritual and maintain respect for tradition while pushing the old into a cosmic space future. Step onto the Mati Zundel dance floor - desert covered in a storm of stars.
While putting the finishing touches on her first solo release Viene de Mi to be released in 2012, La Yegros is touring Argentina for the summer months of February and March.
After her successful show at the Chamamé Rave in Corrientes, she will be playing more dates in Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata, Necochea, Madryn, Mendoza and more to be announced.
This December ZZK Records released the debut EP from the newest guys on the ZZK block, SUPER GUACHIN, a young duo from Mendoza who experiment with different video game technologies to bring their tropical beats to a whole new level. Fresh off a successful European tour with DJ Nim, SG rocked their first shows across the pond, blowing the minds of traditional European dubstep and cumbia fans. A few days away from the release of their new music video and rapidly approaching their upcoming full length release in 2012, ZZK is thrilled to be on this ride with the Guachines at the very start of their recording careers!
We’ve been around the world this year and have played stages all over Europe and North and South America; from Canada, Mexico and the United States to Chile and Argentina! Tremor, Chancha Via Circuito, Fauna, Super Guachin, El Remolón, Frikstailers, Mati Zundel, El G and Villa Diamante have played in over 50 cities and festivals including Mutek, Roskilde, C/O Pop, Fusion, Chico Tropico, Music Meeting, World Tronics, Communikey, and Unsound, among others. Thousands of people dancing to ZZK beats all over the world!
ZZK Series in Perú
Chancha Via Circuito, El Remolón, and Villa Diamante each played as a part of a three month ZZK series with Fuacata! The three shows were all in Lima and the series was a huge success! Wishing a prosperous 2012 to our friends in the country of huancaina and ceviche, where the dancing never stops! We’ll be back soon!
Fauna South American Tour + Manshines edition
This year Fauna toured all over South America presenting their new album: Manshines. Starting in Mendoza they crossed the Andes and through Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and finally arrived back in Argentina, making more and more fans at every stop along the way! Manshines drops worldwide on January 10th! Stay tuned!
Mati Zundel selected as one of the 11 best new artists of 2011 according to NPR!
With an album set to come out in early 2012, Mati Zundel has already had his first unreleased single, Aero Tinku, which was given to NPR as an exclusive advance, chosen as one of NPR’s favorite songs of 2011. It’s only a matter of time until the full album comes out and the whole world can enjoy 13 new tracks filled with attitude and inspiration from the Peruvian jungles, the mountains of Bolivia and musical moments and memories from Mati’s incredible journey through South America. LAST NEWS!! El Alto de la Paz in the Best Singles of 2011 in the Washinton Post!
Chancha via Circuito’s Rio Arriba can’t be stopped!
With excellent reviews in the New York Times, Pitchfork and NPR among others, Chancha’s second release takes the ZZK sound to a whole new level. It was also recently rereleased (in Argentina) into a double disk format, accompanying his first hit release, Rodante, plus a double vinyl with FULL ART in the USA. Rio Arriba changed ZZK history forever, lifting out of the cumbia underground and morphing folkloric Argentine traditions into modern beats accessible to all music lovers worldwide.
That’s where we are leaving off at the end of 2011. And this is where we are jumping off from into the future of 2012!
Tremor and El G will be kicking things off in Colombia in January, as will Chancha and El G in the US! Austin, Athens, Atlanta and Asheville will be the first cities to hear the sounds of ZZK 2012. We’ll start with A and start going through the alphabet all over the world all year long, coming to a dance floor near you!
