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.

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!

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.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB6Obk2fO64

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

tracklist after the jump

1. Air Born ft. Bun B – The Kid Daytona
2. Dollar & a Dream – J. Cole
3. Blowin’ Up ft. Roc C – Jern Eye
4. In Check ft. Oddisee & Supastition – Kenn Starr
5. Coroners Music – Guilty Simpson
6. U-N-I – My Life
7. Who’s Hotter – Mickey Factz
8. Back to Basics – Diamond District
9. In the A.M. – Black Milk
10. Off the Late Night – Diamond District
11. Exlile – Thinking of You
12. Timeless – Finale
13. Forever – John Hope
14. Get in Line – Diamond District
15. Let’s Go – The Are
16. We On To Something – Oddisee
17. First Time – Diamond District
18. Paris 2 Dangelo – Ebrahim
19. Windows – U-N-I
20. Grown Simba – J. Cole
21. Streets won’t let me chill – Diamond District
22. Philip Michael Thompson – The Randy Watson Experience
23. Boogie – Dudley Perkins
24. Q&A – Kenn Starr ft. Oddisee
25. Let’s Start – J. Period & K’NAAN
26. The Groove – Kidd Daytona ft. Mickey Factz

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.