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!

Buy it on iTunes, Amazon or the ZZK website!

ZZK 2011 In Review!

10 International Tours

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!

Before I knew what an A&R was, I met the Buenos Aires quintessential underground A&R.

I first met Guillermo Canale aka DJ Nim while looking for new tunes for Diplo.  The international beat detective himself had come into town for a show, was really interested in Cumbia, played a festival, hung out and then asked if I could help him find some new tracks.  I set out to mine Buenos Aires for new music and Marcelo Rondinone eventually took me to Nim’s apartment.  We immediately hit it off and he opened up his hard drive to a jackpot of new and exciting sounds.  This was the first time I got hipped to Fauna, Princesa, Marcelo Fabian and strangely enough, dubstep.

We eventually would start collaborating together with his label, Bomboclap Records, and Whats Up Buenos Aires, promoting some of his artists and events.  The dubstep mixtape he gave me made a solid rotation of plays at my office and eventually I had to book him for a back room party at a BAFICI party we threw.  We made the backroom the dubtep room.  DJ Nim owned it for 5 hours straight.  He’s just that kind of DJ.

Fast forward to 5 years later, Villa Diamante joins the fun, Zizek Club is created, the laboratory of dance spawns ZZK Records, ZZK becomes global and Nim, the quietest and least visible of the 3 ZZK founders, (we all work 3 jobs to keep the dream alive) drops his first ZZK mixtape and gets ready for his first European tour, sharing the bill with Super Guachin.

With unreleased tracks by Frikstailers, Mati Zundel, Nim edits, trans-Atlantic collaborations (we met Jorge in Paris on a ZZK tour in 2009 and Nim collaborated with him with Sara Hebe), Fauna, Duo Calhambre and more, this mixtape has been on solid rotation at ZZKHQ and got me from my office to my apartment in a record 9 minutes on bike.  Saboroso!

What's on board for Saturday?

Thanks Lucas DM, Elliot Tupac & Tomas Abramzon for the videos!

Dedicated in loving memory to Federico Rodriguez aka Catar_sys. May your message continue to illuminate through the music you have left us.

Fauna’s new album, the follow up to their 2008 debut La Manita de Fauna, is the result of both Argentina and constant touring. Influenced by the music they heard on the road, the album is an exploration in cumbia, dubstep, kuduro and more. Their sound has evolved, production grown in depth and range, and lyrics matured.

Manshines is an album in movement, written and produced in the free time in between tours across three continents, where they performed for crowds at festivals like Coachella, Roskilde, C/O Pop, Distortion and for audiences in over 50 cities.

Pioneers of the global cumbia scene since 2003, hailing from Mendoza, Argentina, Fauna were the first artists signed to ZZK Records and immediately became the label's Trojan horses, banging down walls in 14 countries with their first release.  In their La Manita de Fauna album, the rhyming and beatmaking duo of Color Kit (Cristian del Negro) and Catar_sys spread their ragga cumbia sound with lyrics that played with having fun and having consciousness, a portrait of life at the foothills of the Andes mountains.

Mixed and produced by Andrés Oddone and Frikstailers, with Daleduro and El Remolón providing beats, los pibes Fauna expand their vision of cumbia bass, tropical dubstep and kuduro made in Argentina.

On the 29th of October at NICETO CLUB, side A and B will be the host to the newest ZIZEK CLUB, where the musical collective will be celebrating their fifth anniversary on the dance floor. Begun as a Wednesday night party in San Telmo, the fiesta has become the root for a number of artists in the new urban music scene in Argentina.

Today in 2011, we present to you a constantly evolving ZZK Records, with the our artists playing in the some of world´s most important festivals and multiple tours a year, like for example the tours that will take Tremor, El Remolón, Fauna, Lagartijeando, El G and Super Guachín to Europe between September and December.

The number of albums, digital eps and vinyls continue to grow, not to mention official remixes by Gotan Project, Bomba Estereo, Julieta Venegas, Balkan Beat Box, Babasónicos, countless unofficial remixes, and collaborations with musicians from the urban underground.

We continue to surprise ourselves when we think back on all of the things that have happened in these last five years, and we can´t even begin to imagine what the future will bring, but...we´re on our way !

Lineup

Side A:
Tremor
Frikstailers
Fauna
Miss Bolivia & Villa Diamante: Bien Warrior
King Coya
La Yegros

Visuals: Lucas DM, Flamboyant and Matapixels!

Side B:
El Remolón y su conjunto
Chancha Vía Circuito feat Paula Duró
Lagartijeando
Super Guachin
Sol Del Rio
Cinba.Nim.10

Residents: Villa Diamante, El G, DJ Nim y VJ Lucas DM.

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Super Guachin
Piratas y Fichines - EP
format: digital_release / 2011

Fauna
Manshines
format: cd / 2011

Chancha Via Circuito
Rio Arriba
format: cd / 2010

La Yegros arranca la gira en la costa! +INFO

La Yegros rockea Necochea! +INFO

La Yegros sigue con la gira con dos fechas en Puerto Madryn! +INFO

Ultima fecha de la gira por Argentina con La Yegros! +INFO

La Yegros toca en Club Cultural Matienzo! +INFO

Se viene un ZZK Club super especial con El Guincho de España, El Remolon, y Fauna +INFO