This weekend we were very excited to get the new cd from one of our favorite groups, Kumbia Queers, in the mail. Kumbia Queers are from Argentina and Mexico, a bad-ass group of women making great music. They started out doing primarily cover songs put to cumbia with their own lyrics (so is that still a cover song? or a remix? or just campling the original?) , and they are creating more material all the time. We first came across them when bent found a link to their myspace page and listened to the amazing hits "Isla Con Chicas" and "Chica del Calendario." Now we have the full cd "Kumbia Nena" which is 12 tracks of excellence.
The tracks include the songs we already knew well (see above) as well as many that were new to us including an amazing tune called "Kumbia Zombia." A perfect tune for the time of year, it also seems they are quite attuned to the important theme shared by Radio Hybrid - zombies and the undead. Other stand outs include "La China es Kumbianchera" (to the tune of "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" by the Ramones) and more. It's really great to find a cumbia band that not only is composed of women, women singers, but singing about great stuff and not the same old same old - even as we love cumbia and many other genres that are dominated by the usual powers that be, it's refreshing to see our people making this great music.
It seems Kumbia Queers have made it to the US at least once before, so Mothersheister and bent are determined to bring them to DC, come hell or high water. In the meantime we will have to settle for listening to them and playing them at dance parties and clubs whenever we are rocking the decks.
In the meantime a great vid of them:
And a great video of some other random group that is hilarious....
Speaking of rocking the decks - OMG - our dear friends DJs Choque y Fuga are opening for DJ Rekha on Halloween at the Black Cat!!!! This is very exciting and you all should get your butts there because it will be OTMFH!!!!
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Holla! I've been riding your blog waiting for a post daily and am overjoyed to find an update! (not that the disco video wasnt an update but...) Well, first of all, thank you thank you for the plug for this Friday! DJs Choque Y Fuga aka DJs Trash and Rat aaka DJs Hit it or Quit It would LOVE to have our friends come out to the Black Cat and will do everything in our power to get as many people on a list to get in FREE as humanly or Ratly or Trashly possible! Second of all, I/we need a costume! Does anyone have any ideas!?!? Thirdly, this interview with Kumbia Queers is amazing. I need to meet "AG". I think that Radio CpR should make it our mission to bring Cumbia Queers to DC, and then I think we should visit them on some leg of our Radio Tour '09. I love this quote from the interview:
AG: [Queer] is an urban tribe made up of the people that don’t want to belong to any tribe.
Another thing I was wondering is whether their name is supposed to be a play on Kumbia Kings? If so, I love them even more!
Ok, thanks for the update and much love from Sticky Fingers where they are blaring Sigur Ros and making me want to pour Fair Trade coffee on my head.
xo,
dj trash aka the artist formerly known as dj trash y food
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