Good news for all you tropical 45 fanatics: Talacha and Peace & Rhythm have teamed up to bring you a two-sided underground, experimental neo-cumbia dance floor banger from El Keamo! California-based, first generation Mexican-American multi-media artist and musician Alfredo González-Martínez goes by the name El Keamo and creates a new language for expressing cumbia. Inspired by the white label sonidero “discos piratas” bootlegs of Mexico City, Talacha and Peace & Rhythm have collaborated to reissue the two most DJ-friendly tracks from El Keamo’s self-titled debut LP.
Side A of this hot 7-inch tortilla kicks off with “El Baile de Soraya,” an uptempo dark synth adventure full of contrasts that takes you trance-dancing through the early morning jungle and then transports you up beyond the galaxy into the rave-o-sphere. The track is propelled by a deep 303 synth bass line and shamanistic electro-maracas while the melody comes from the interplay of intertwining sci-fi synth stabs and squiggles that build and pulse like a message from beyond.
“Sonidero Funk” on the flip brings you back to earth with a reimagined lowrider kumbia that bounces with heavy electro percussion, feinting and jabbing with synth stabs, rolling along like a chopped, hydraulic four-wheeled sound beast down the boulevard, full street style in effect. Soundtrack to an endless summer in the sweltering city, mellow kickback and the opened cerveza in the shade under the palms, looking for a breeze. Blingy hip hop strut meets underground tropical acid house in an East LA video game.
| A | El Baile De Soraya |
| B | Sonidero Funk |
