Now that sun and hot temperatures have struck the Pacific Northwest, along with the rest of the US (sorry about the triple digits, New York), it only seems right to pull out a selection of summer sounds.

There are few things more satisfying than a windows down down (or top, player) drive on a gorgeous sunny day with the right soundtrack, and I now have mine for the next wave of heatwave (redundancy redundancy).

The mix is by Canalh, and it’s a nice bass heavy cumbia mix that stays in the summer Saturday afternoon zone. Not too shabby. Enjoy!

Via the homies at Emayo Cutz.

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Ah hell yeah! This is a mixtape we can really get behind! Top three reasons this mix is the shit:

1) It comes to us courtesy of the homies over at Emayo Cutz, who are holding down the cumbia scene like bosses of all bosses.

2) Arizona is fucking up people’s lives right now, and any way we can give that a little more light is good.

3) The mix is damned hot. The last Telesforo mix we put up here was a banger, and this is no different. Good shit out of Guadalajara!

And yes, there’s a lot of cursing in this post, but dammit, the coffee’s got my blood on fire!

So last night my weekend told me it wasn’t ready to settle in  just yet, so I said – okay weekend let’s bounce up off this couch.  I landed at the always all ages, Seattle landmark venue Vera Project and ended up peeping out Javelin, a Brooklyn based duo – comprised of funky cousins Tom van Buskirk, 27, and George Langford, 29. Armed with drum pads, mpcs, a dollar store piano guitar, an electric kazoo and slew of other merry noisemaking tools – Javelin proceeded to rock the modest yet giddy crowd.

The set made me feel alot of things, a few I’ll name here: merry go rounds, mexican ice cream trucks, miami sound machine, that movie batteries not included, kisses, a quechua disco, Herbie Hancock, dancing like a kid at a Chuck. E. Cheese animatronic show,  rainbows, Dilla. It was fun. These guys pride themselves on digging for dollar bin gems and transforming them into that new new. Javelin are signed to Luaka Bop the label of eccentric maestro David Byrne.  You can download the very fresh, very free mixtapes World Midi Classics Vol.2 or Andean Ocean Tape below. Still,  do yourself a favor and earn what! u aint up on this? points by copping the recently released, and thoroughly pleasing full length No Mas, here .

Here is vibrationz, a guaranteed summertime jam off of No Mas.

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Of the various camps responsible for the global cumbia surge (no Iraq), none has been more at the forefront than the Emayo Cutz crew. Joelito, one third of the crew (along with El Hijo de la Cumbia and Rebenga), just shot this Busy Signal remix into the LxNxM inbox (lastnightsmixtape@gmail.com if you aren’t knowing), and it is fiery. It’s high paced, bassy, and not for the faint of heart. Download it, turn it up, and let it rip.

Busy Signal – Blaze up di herbs (Joelito remix)

Although a brother is currently tryin on a vegetarian steez, as a joven I could put a hurtin on some Chorizo. Why? Chorizo, like hip hop – is all about the ill spice and flavor, and putting the throw-away parts together with some essence. Word to my abuela. My lady, a pura East-Austin Chicana, a has been tryin to put me onto Dj Chorizo Funk for a minute. I’ll be jumpin a plane in about 3 hours to the ATX so I figured I would leave y’all with this parting gift.

A friend of the noted Table Manners Crew, Dj Chorizo has put together a recipe capturing some wholesome indie-hop selections from 2009. This mezcla is simply solid. I am definitely feelin the nacho- libre esque Dj Chooorrriiiizzzzzo drops in between mixes. Enjoy people, I’ll see what other treats I can sniff out in Austin for y’all….

“p.s. bump this in a system with some knock! all these damn ear buds nowadayz smh…Yall are missing out on the knock” – Dj Chorizo

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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.

The first time I was introduced to the music of King Coya, it was during a late night reasoning session at my house with DJ Darwin of Mad Rad. He’s a big fan of global dance music and is in good with the folks at ZZK Records, the Argentinian space-age electro label that’s home to King Coya. If you didn’t already know, there’s a ton of good electronic music coming out of Argentina (Buenos Aires especially) right now and the folks at ZZK are at the forefront. Artists like Douster, Fauna, and Gaby Kerpel, who works as a renowed composer by day but moonlights as King Coya in his spare time, have taken their ballistic monthly club nights of playing freaked out electro cumbia and turned it into a movement.

As of last week, Coya’s debut album, Cumbias de Villa Donde, officially hit stores and fans of progressive electro music (especially stuff with a Latin swing to it) should check this one out. Cumbia is basically musica folkorica that started more in the Northern part of South America (Colombia/Ecuador/Peru) but is popular all throughout the Andes. Coya does a good job of flipping it on the new album, adding elements of Argentinian folk and downtempo, and then blending it all together so the ten tracks on Cumbias de Villa Donde have a distinct Buenos Aires lounge feel. It’s not an album full of club bangers like this joint but it’s chill. I don’t have a direct download link for the album but you can dowload  the ZZK Vol. 7 mixtape instead. It’s basically all King Coya cuts and mashups. Drink some yerba mate while you’re listening.