Quantic (DJ Set)Thursday 6th MarchPonsonby Social Club152 Ponsonby RdFree EntryWith support from Latinaotearoa.Quantic, aka Will Holland is a British born Musician, Producer & DJ making Soul, Electronic & Latin Music saturated in the tropical soundwaves of the Carribean. Currently working from his Sonido del Valle studio base in the highlands of Bogota, Colombia, Holland has developed a sound that bridges heritage and progression, marrying spontaneous musicianship with deep, exciting tonality.Holland is currently at work on his fourth Quantic record, which will be his fifteenth studio album to date. The album is to feature influences from Ethiopian Jazz to Haitian Compas, Salsa Dura from his Colombian homestead to Detroit techno, with electric sub bass and beat programming, All part of Quantic’s trademark sound. Holland records and mixes from his own Sonido del Valle studio where he utilises a range of vintage studio equipment, working as part sound engineer, musician and producer to procure a rich and original sound.Worcestershire born, Will Holland began his musical career at the age of 16, encouraged by his father, a Welsh born folk musician who worked in mechanical engineering & computer programming and his English born mother, a talented singer and folk enthusiast. By his early teens Holland had been introduced to home recording by his father and started to experiment with sequencing and programming. This, combined with a developing habit for record collecting, a household full of instruments and two older, musical sisters, it was only natural for Holland to setup a makeshift studio in the bedroom of their timber framed home beside the river Severn. After much experimentation, Holland developed a strong repertoire, eventually attracting the attention of ‘Breakin Bread Records’, a London based record label through which Holland released his first 45 ‘We Got Soul’. It was at this point his work as a DJ began to flourish and through a visit to Brighton he was introduced to label ‘Tru Thoughts’. In 2001 TT released his debut album ‘The 5th Exotic’ a collection of sample based songs mined from various lunchbreak trips to record shops and the diverse selection of instruments found in the Holland household, his two sisters also featured as guests.Shortly after the success of ‘The 5th Exotic’ Holland began work on the first Quantic Soul Orchestra record ‘Stampede’, combining live drum loops with Funk & Soul riffs to pay homage to the american Rhythm & Blues 45s spun in Quantic DJ sets. This was the era of the deep funk sound in the UK & the focus was on a raw, hard and incisive dancefloor sound. In that same year ‘The Limp Twins’ were born, a collaboration with Worcester based singer Russell Porter that saw their debut album ‘Tales from Beyond the Groove’ also released on Tru Thoughts records.
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Kartel is delighted to announce the 5th November release of Future Sounds Of Buenos Aires, a genre-bending, spine-tinglingstatement of intent from our new label partner, ZZK ("Zeezak") Records. Available as a double vinyl or single CD, this is funked-up experimentalism of a hugely satisfying, unmistakably Argentinian hue.
Pioneering Argentinian label ZZK Records release their scene defining compilation ‘Future Sound Of Buenos Aires’ on 5th November. Rural South-American-styles fuse with electronic futurism on this stunning snap shot of the burgeoning experimental electronic scene that has emerged in Buenos Aires over recent years.
The wild 8-bit cumbia bass of Super Guachin and crisp snares of the outlandish Frikstailers sit alongside Tremor’s glitchyand futuristic take on Andean folklore. Other artists that feature include El Remolón, a psychiatrist turned musician, andLa Yegros, partner of fellow ZZK artist King Coya, and the label's first female signing.
Buenos Aires may mean cosmopolitanism, tango and slabs of beef to most people, but this is a city whose cultural life extends way beyond the usual tourist signifiers. It has become the home for a group of musicians linking traditional South American styles with the digital instrumentation and global reach of modern dance artists, to create a raucous, boundary-pushing electronic music– and ZZK Records is at the heart of it all. The rest of the world has already begun to take note with artists such as El Guincho and the Gotan Project calling on ZZK artists to remix their tracks. Not just confined to the studio ZZK and their artists relentless touring schedule has seen them play over 150 shows in 70 different cities as well as shows at some of the more prestigious international festivals. “A wildly inventive collection of Argentine music that's as funky and of-the-moment as any instrumental electronic dance music being made right now.” – LA Times
Remolino De Oro: Coastal Cumbias from Colombia's Discos Fuentes 1961-73
A follow up to "A Orillas del Magdalena", twelve more cumbias from Colombia's most prolific label. Hailing, by all accounts, from the Northern coast of Colombia, Cumbia is the offspring of the musical melding of three cultures—the Indigenous, Spanish and African. Shaped by bright cymbals, an insistent bass line, eclectic percussion and brilliant accordion playing, these Discos Fuentes recordings remain raw, loose and unpolished. From dance floor hit to nostalgic ode—they come straight from the heart.
The History of Colombian Cumbia & Porro As Told By The Phonograph 1948 - 79
Soundway set sail for Colombia once again, delving deeper into the South American country’s rich musical past. Boasting 55 tracks spread over two CDs and two triple LPs, ‘The Original Sound of Cumbia’ is Soundway’s definitive guide to the origins of Colombian cumbia and porro and the result of five years pain staking re-search by Will ‘Quantic’ Holland.
Disc 1 tells the story of some the earliest Colombian cumbia recorded, a genre that captured a nation, spreading from its birthplace on the Caribbean coast in land to central Colombia and the capital Bogota. Disc 2 sees the evolution of cumbia. Greats of Colombian music like Alberto Pacheco, Toño Fernandez & Anibal Velasquez brought the music forward, bringing new influences and instruments to the genre. What had once been considered the music of the underclasses had risen up as the new sound of a nation.
After five years of becoming slowly submerged in Colombian musical culture, learning the accordion, setting up a band and a studio, and scouring the country in search it’s recorded legacy, Will ‘Quantic’ Holland (Quantic Soul Orchestra & Quantic y su Combo Barbaro) has compiled the fruits of his labour into this unique compilation that tells the story of cumbia in the years of the phonograph record’s supremacy. Along with good friend and head of Soundway Records, Miles Cletet, Will Holland has condensed hundreds of 78s, 45s and LPs into just over two and a half hours of the finest Colombian cumbia.
Disc 1 / SNDWLP032A
1. Gastón (El Isleño) con El Conjunto de Jaime Simanca – La Cumbia Está Llamando
2. Conjunto Los Rumberos – Cumbia del Puerto
3. Lucho Peréz – Judith
4. Alberto Pacheco y su Conjunto – Sembrando Café
5. Rafeal Yepes Crespo con sus Negros de la Región – Nubia en la Playa
6. Santander Flores – Capital Cebuista
7. Ruffo Garrido y su Conjunto – El Pájaro Prieto
8. Conjunto Ritmos del Caribe – La Fullera
9. Anibal Velásquez y Su Conjunto – San Jacinto
10. Orquesta Ritmos de Sabanas – Montería
11. Baldomero Urieles con Efrian Burgos y su Conjunto – Amor del Magdalena
12. Los Alegres del Valle – Samaria
13. Conjunto Martínez – Cumbia Fonsequera
14. Silvio Guzman y Conjunto Jose M. Peñaranda – Canto a Betty
15. Pedro Salcedo y su Orquesta – La Vaca y El Caporal
16. Los Alegres Bucaneros – Cumbia Bucanera
17. Gildardo Montoya y Conjunto Los Rumberos – Fabiola
18. Guillermo Munoz y Conjunto Típico del Magdalena – Cumbia de Todos
19. Cresencio Salcedo – Me Quedo con el Viejo
20. Lalito y Conjunto Colombia – Flores de Colombia
21. Nacho Paredes con Los Vaqueros Sabaneros – Dulce Lamento
22. Los Ases del Ritmo – La Margarita
23. Emiro Caicedo y su Combo – Los Cumbiamberos
24. Hugo Racedo y su Conjunto – Cumbia del Magdalena
25. Trio Serenata – Cumbia Sobre El Mar
26. Los Indígenas – Sangre Goajira
27. Toño Fernandez – La Muerte
28. Los Hermanitos Ferreyra – Cumbia del Mar
Vinyl bonus track
Angel Martinez con Los Sabaneros – Cumbia Alegre
Disc 2 / SNDWLP032B
1. Betopey – Cumbia del Carnaval
2. Conjunto Miramar – Reina de Cumbias
3. Los Cumbiamberos de Chorrera – La Millera
4. Andrés Landero – Rosa y Mayo
5. Los Tigres con Morgan Blanco – La Culebra
6. La Cumbia Soledeña – Tambo, Tambo
7. Jaime Simanca y sus Fandangueros – Cumbia Negra
8. Aniceto Molina y su Conjunto – Cumbia Candela
9.Banda Bajera de San Pelayo – Descarga en Cumbia
10. Alberto Pacheco – Guayabita Colorá
11. Banda 11 de Enero de Murillo – La Cachona
12. Lucho Campillo y su Conjunto – Rastrillando
13. Carlos Román – El 4 y 5
14. Banda 2da de Laguneta Córdoba – Tracionera
15. Satanás y su Grupo – Cumbia de La Montaña
16. Toño Fernández – La Guacharaca
17. Lucho Yepez – La Gaita del Pato
18. El Pholy Combo – El Porro es Hermano De La Cumbia
19. Grupo Costa Brava – A Baranoa
20. Elías Morón y su Conjunto Vallenato – Playas Embrujadas
21. Chico Cervantes – Cumbia Colombia
22. Anibal Velásquez y su Conjunto – Cumbia Bogotana
23. Alfonso Puerta y su Conjunto – Pescadores del Mar
24. Miguel Durán – Elionora
25. Celia Estremor y su Grupo de Baile Cantao – El Secuestro
26. Hermanos Tuiran – Lluvia
27. Unknown – El Niño Llora
Vinyl Bonus Track
Heber Macias – Cumbia Linda
Cultural phenomena streak through popular consciousness like meteorites. There’s a significant, even life-changing, impact made somewhere, but for many it’s only a moment that flickers by, soon to be swallowed back into the cosmos. Chicha might have been like that. Instead, a once-obscure music that enjoyed a fanatic embrace in the Peruvian slums of the 1970s has become a full-fledged global occasion – thanks to the stunning success of a 2007 CD called The Roots of Chicha.
The album, released by the Brooklyn-based Barbès Records, was a passionate act of cultural appreciation: a heartstrong effort to turn the world on its ear with something it had never expected to hear. It took listeners back to the late 1960’s, when a number of Peruvian guitarists from Lima and the Amazon created a new electric hybrid, which mixed cumbia, surf, Cuban guaracha, rock, Peruvian folklore, and psychedelic touches. This new wave of Peruvian cumbia came to be known as chicha. Scorned by the middle-class and the official tastemakers, chicha remained mostly associated with the slums of Lima, where the ever-growing population of Andean migrants embraced the music and its players as their own.
When Olivier Conan released the first volume of Roots of Chicha in September 2007, he couldn’t have foreseen the kind of impact it would have. The musician, who co-owns the club Barbès in Brooklyn and owns the label of the same name, had fallen in love with the music on a trip to Peru in the summer of 2006. Back in New York, he started his own band, Chicha Libre, as an attempt to share his enthusiasm. Then he released a compilation of some of the best chicha tracks from the ‘70s. The music quickly found an audience in the US and in Europe. Musicians and DJs embraced it as a lost link between rock and Latin cultures. Accolades flowed from the New York Times, NPR, Le Monde, El Comercio and the BBC. One of its songs was covered by the band Franz Ferdinand, actor Elijah Wood praised it profusely in an interview to Paste magazine. Chilean rock group Los Tres gave a copy of the record to then-president Bachelet, which somehow became national news. This very special double vinyl version contains the best tracks from
Olivier’s three releases, packaged in a beautiful Tip-On Gatefold jacket, and includes a 20 page full color booklet.
Tracklisting:
Side A
Sonido Amazonico (ALBERTO SANCHEZ) 2:35 Los Mirlos
Linda Nena (J. MARA) 3:45 Juaneco Y Su Combo
Cariñito (ÁNGEL ANÍBAL ROSADO) 4:05 Los Hijos del Sol
Patricia (ENRIQUE DELGADO) 3:14 Los Destellos
Sacalo Sacalo (MARINO VALENCIA GARAY) 3:04 Los Diablos Rojos
Silbando (JUAN BENIGNO) 3:07 Los Ribereños
Side B
El Diablo (D.R.) 2:46 Compay Quinto
Elsa (TOMAS REBATA ACEVEDO) 3:38 Los Destellos
Mala Mujer (RAUL LLERENA) 3:01 Ranil y su Conjunto Tropical
Agua (BERARDO HERNANDEZ) 3:02 Manzanita y su Conjunto
Para Elisa (BEETHOVEN, ENRIQUE DELGADO) 2:46 Los Destellos
Ya Se Ha Muerto Mi Abuelo 4:09 Juaneco y Su Combo
Side C
Colegiala (WALTER LEON) 3:32 Los Ilusionistas
El Guapo (MARINO VALENCIA GARAY) 3:23 Los Diablos Rojos
El Hueleguiso (BERARDO HERNANDEZ) 3:15 Manzanita y su Conjunto
Vacilando con Ayahuasca (NOÉ FACHÎN) 3:31 Juaneco Y su Combo
Linda Muñequita (ÁNGEL ANÍBAL ROSADO) 4:44 Los Hijos del Sol
Side D
Como Un Ave (VICTOR CASAHUAMAN) 2:49 Grupo Celeste
Constelación (ENRIQUE DELGADO) 3:19 Los Destellos
La Danza del Petrolero (EMERSON SANCHEZ) 2:48 Los Wembler’s de
Iquitos
A Trabajar (CASIMIRO MEDINA) 3:27 Chacalón y la Nueva Crema
El Aguajal (TEODOMIRO SALAZAR) 3:50 Los Shapis
La Danza de Los Mirlos (GILBERTO REATEGUI) 2:49 Los Mirlos
Quantic (DJ Set)Thursday 6th MarchPonsonby Social Club152 Ponsonby RdFree EntryWith support from Latinaotearoa.
Quantic, aka Will Holland is a British born Musician, Producer & DJ making Soul, Electronic & Latin Music saturated in the tropical soundwaves of the Carribean. Currently working from his Sonido del Valle studio base in the highlands of Bogota, Colombia, Holland has developed a sound that bridges heritage and progression, marrying spontaneous musicianship with deep, exciting tonality.
Holland is currently at work on his fourth Quantic record, which will be his fifteenth studio album to date. The album is to feature influences from Ethiopian Jazz to Haitian Compas, Salsa Dura from his Colombian homestead to Detroit techno, with electric sub bass and beat programming, All part of Quantic’s trademark sound. Holland records and mixes from his own Sonido del Valle studio where he utilises a range of vintage studio equipment, working as part sound engineer, musician and producer to procure a rich and original sound.
Worcestershire born, Will Holland began his musical career at the age of 16, encouraged by his father, a Welsh born folk musician who worked in mechanical engineering & computer programming and his English born mother, a talented singer and folk enthusiast. By his early teens Holland had been introduced to home recording by his father and started to experiment with sequencing and programming. This, combined with a developing habit for record collecting, a household full of instruments and two older, musical sisters, it was only natural for Holland to setup a makeshift studio in the bedroom of their timber framed home beside the river Severn. After much experimentation, Holland developed a strong repertoire, eventually attracting the attention of ‘Breakin Bread Records’, a London based record label through which Holland released his first 45 ‘We Got Soul’. It was at this point his work as a DJ began to flourish and through a visit to Brighton he was introduced to label ‘Tru Thoughts’. In 2001 TT released his debut album ‘The 5th Exotic’ a collection of sample based songs mined from various lunchbreak trips to record shops and the diverse selection of instruments found in the Holland household, his two sisters also featured as guests.
Shortly after the success of ‘The 5th Exotic’ Holland began work on the first Quantic Soul Orchestra record ‘Stampede’, combining live drum loops with Funk & Soul riffs to pay homage to the american Rhythm & Blues 45s spun in Quantic DJ sets. This was the era of the deep funk sound in the UK & the focus was on a raw, hard and incisive dancefloor sound. In that same year ‘The Limp Twins’ were born, a collaboration with Worcester based singer Russell Porter that saw their debut album ‘Tales from Beyond the Groove’ also released on Tru Thoughts records.
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