Cities, cities, technology, and cities. And technologies. We love em, but they allow authorities to be miserable in entirely different ways. In London, power drunk pigs boast their salivatory rants before launching into beating time. In DF, authorities manipulate swine flu paranoia to worry about its entry to the US (heaven forfend!) above anything else — tragironically ignoring the histories of this very flu. But god bless the Mexicans, and god bless cumbia: A bit cheesy, but an ode to city life that repudiates panic, Cumbia De La Influenza (facebook) was brought to my attention by my heavenly south american informant. Working on the irony of the civilization-robbing Indiana Jones fretting over whether the virus invades its borders, this is the kind of social response we should expect from our cities, rather than the.. um.. the other kind of response.

La Cumbia de la Influenza [alt]

The inimitable Tanlines Band and Music DJ Group are all over the place. We’ll see you there with our skinny white jeans on.

Apr 23 - 10:00PM - GLASSLANDS - w/ SUCKERS
http://www.glasslands.com/

Apr 25 - 8:00PM - Bruar Falls w/ Lemonade + CLAWS + Bronze
http://bruarfalls.com/

May 8 - 10:00PM - FIXED @ STUDIO B w/ OPTIMO
http://www.clubstudiob.com/

May 16 - 8:00PM - Gowanus Studio Space - Triple Canopy Anniversary Party
http://www.gowanusstudio.org/
http://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/

May 28 - 9:30PM - NEW MUSEUM - RHIZOME.ORG BENEFIT
https://rhizome.org/benefit/2009/tickets.php

NEW VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cdnvOoL1VA

———> ACTUAL MUSIC HERE:

NEW PROJECT ALERT! RESTLESS PEOPLE
http://familyedition2.com/001/

Best WTF in the world.

We are so happy that this nuevo cumbia has lasted, unlike the three month flash of bailefunk, which quickly started sounding more like a Rio traffic jam with loud farting horns after the alcohol and sugar buzz of the caipirinhas went away. Here are two more cumbias we are in larf with:

Zonora Point - Huachita Rica (doucester remix) [alt link]

Chocquib Town - San Antonio [alt link]

These songs beg the weather to get warmer so we can bike in shirtsleeves and eat meals outside.

New hotnessss from our favorite dancehall queen, Cecile. Oh, and a choon from Mr. Vegas that we can’t get out of our head.

Cecile - Hot Like We (remix) [alt link]

Mr. Vegas - Must Come a Road [alt link]

Skeet skeet that ass indeed. We’ll leave the more sincerely prancing commentary to other music blogs on the internets out there and instead, suckpants-style, riff on the last few days:

• TMYLM music received its first official email from a record label that didn’t mostly suck.  Todays postings come from Ruff Riddims records outta Bostwana and the shit they handed off is amazing… Must mean we’ve made it (kinda).  anyways, to paraphrase professor murder, their science is just too tight! you gotta download it - and now you know its not illegal - music blogs holla yo!
• Seders are cool, but preseders are better because then you can calm down and then keep pumping away… and pregnancy is minimized
• Spring came and went, but yessir the park sitting is back…
• You light up my life was also used to get this girl into bed [nsfw]…
• its SPRING BREAK!! so say goodbye to these weird covers [sorry i missed that party yo!]

Tebza - ROCKA [altlink]

Skeat - Basimanyana Mamela Meropa [altlink]

Gettin down with the get down in the UK Funky scene. That’s a right Donker, innit? SAAAAAFE. Or sumfing. Whah-evs, DL and have a look!

KIG Family - Head Shoulders Knees and Toes [ysi]

oh, um

Crazy twist-synth trancehall from the dutty artz cru. We’re posting this despite the fact that the payola didn’t go round to us at all. We dont know what else to say about this one, other than turn it up and play it on a decent system.

Jahdan Blakkamoore - Go Round Payola (Matt Shadetek Bye Haters Rmx) [vsi]

This is the banginest soca track we know, so PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR and celebrate carneval year round, or at least once a month.

Fay Ann Lyons - Meet Super Blue [ysi] LINK FIXED!@~!

Don’t miss our boyeees from Tanlines at Santos Party House on Saturday, not just because they are cool dudes who will make you dance your face off to electro-soca-tropicalia-dub, but also because they are playing with Zizek, the seminal Argentinal electro-cumbia outfit.

Oh, it’s an early party, starts at 7!

This follows last week’s AMAZING Dutty Artz party at Glasslands.

You can grab Zizek’s 6th mixtape free from their site at ZZK Records.
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