A little while back, I wrote about DJ Darwin’s secret cumbia obsession. You might only think of Darwin as the shoeless maniac that DJs for Mad Rad, or the clubwise party fiend that throws late night gigs at the Egg Room with DJ Tiger Beat. He’s all those things and a hell of a lot more, sure, but he’s also a purveyor of the global urban beat. He’s deep into world electronic music, and for that reason, Darwin has a huge love for the mashed up cumbia sounds coming out of Argentina and South America right now. Cumbia isn’t just for Abuelitas anymore.  You can ask DJ/rupture about that shit. There is a new breed of global DJs that are breathing life into the genre and Darwin is slowly joining that list. Of course, you’ll hear less charangos in his cumbia tracks and more synths, less flute and more effects, but he’s trying. In fact, it can (and probably should be) argued if the tracks he’s making at home are even cumbia at all.  Either way, he just put out a new online mixtape last night called Cumbia Mix Fall 2009– and since this blog is all about highlighting last night’s mixtapes, you should check it out below. Aside from two cuts that Darwin produced himself, there are tracks from B.A.’s El Remolon, the Mendoza-based Fauna DJs, Lulacruza, and a little bit of Tego Calderon thrown in just for that good ole, “wait a minute, was that…?”  Yes it was. Check it.

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