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How This DJ Is Using Experimental Music, Images & Videos to Tell Immigrants’ Shared Stories

Sara Skolnick — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:47:01 +0000

In a time where mainstream media’s narrow, criminalized representation of immigrants facilitates white supremacists’ racist agendas, nuanced storytelling can be a defense against the dangers of dehumanization. In going beyond the “good immigrant” or “bad immigrant” dichotomy, the choice becomes either to foster more divide, or to nurture connection. Audiovisual installation MigrantScape arrives with a

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Ecuador’s SinVergüenza Provides Trans and Non-Binary Revelers With a Perreo Haven

Sara Skolnick — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 21:53:38 +0000

Posters with non-negotiable policies like “Ni fachos ni machos,” “100pre todo con consentimiento,” and “Aborto legal seguro y gratuito ya” adorn a room along with chains and silk roses hanging from a red ceiling. Sweat drips from the walls, set to a soundtrack ranging from dembow, techno, and reggaetón. The stewards of this experience –

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J Balvin Became the Global Pop Star He Wanted to Be. What’s Next?

Sara Skolnick — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:03:02 +0000

Shortly after picking up a Latin Grammy win for Best Urban Album for Vibras in November 2018, J Balvin dropped his single “Reggaetón,” complete with a video that directly pays tribute to the genre’s Puerto Rican titans. Referencing influential figures like Tego Calderón, Daddy Yankee, and Wisin, the video features shots of cuchifritos, Puerto Rican flag

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This Short Doc Highlights the Ecuadorian Producers Blending Folkloric Music & Electronic Sounds

Sara Skolnick — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 14:12:35 +0000

Native Instruments’ latest documentary project takes a deep dive into Ecuador’s thriving electronic music community. In their own words, Misho Taky: Tradition Meets Innovation in Ecuador explores “cultural preservation through innovative use of technology,” centering on producers Quixosis, Malafama, and EVHA. Each artist represents specific perspectives in the bubbling scene, which has seen its own renaissance

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9 Tracks That Blend Dominican Dembow and Brazilian Baile Funk

Sara Skolnick — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 20:03:51 +0000

Though its recent surge into collective global pop consciousness could be credited as the incentive for Dominican dembow takes on baile funk, the hybridized evolution hardly seems coincidental. By the time J Balvin, Future, Stefflon Don, and Juan Magan hopped on the genre with their remix of MC Fioti’s “Bum Bum Tam Tam,” the tamborzão-driven

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How Reykon Went From a Medellín Barrio to Pioneering Colombia’s Reggaeton Explosion

Sara Skolnick — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 21:51:18 +0000

Born Andrés Felipe Robledo Londoño in the Envigado neighborhood that he still proudly represents, Reykon came from humble beginnings. After starting to make music with a mic, a cassette player, and recorder he borrowed from his mother, he eventually moved on to working out of a FL Studio-powered studio opened by local urbano duo Golpe

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El Dusty Reps Corpus Christi While Bringing Mutant Cumbia to the World on His Debut Album

Sara Skolnick — Mon, 14 May 2018 22:40:03 +0000

Now several years in the making, Corpus Christi’s own El Dusty just dropped his first full-length album Cumbia City via Universal’s Aftercluv imprint, solidifying his place as a cultural translator. Cumbia City is the culmination of more than a decade of steady touring and production, one that holds cumbia’s legacy and evolution through the diaspora

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De La Ghetto Is a Reggaeton Romántico Visionary

Sara Skolnick — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 21:18:22 +0000

Romantiqueo urbano visionary De La Ghetto (aka Rafael Castillo) has managed to keep a foot in both reggaetón and hip-hop for nearly 15 years, even as these genres have evolved outside of their traditional contexts. As a longtime supporter of hip-hop and dancehall in a reggaetón-dominated Puerto Rico, De La Ghetto’s endurance is a testament

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For 10 Years, Peligrosa Has Provided a Much-Needed Home for Latinos in Austin Nightlife

Sara Skolnick — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:38:32 +0000

As a space to celebrate to the shared experiences of a community with complex cultures and identities, the collective, recurring party, and record label known as Peligrosa has become Austin’s home for revisiting and re-energizing sounds of the Global South of the past, present, and future. Now gearing up to ring in its anniversary this

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Cuba’s First Independent Urban Music Label Is Dedicated to Black Resistance

Sara Skolnick — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 18:00:11 +0000

In Guampara, Havana’s sounds of resistance find a home. The studio and record label is a consistent force in unearthing ways to maintain and honor the connection with Cuba’s past and its interconnected history with Africa, while also creating content that’s relevant to today. As label manager Laura Catana puts it, “It’s about staying rooted

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