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]

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]

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.
Tanlines on Youtube
Tanlines on the Hype Machine

Two cumbias para ti, a little old and “classic”, but with some slightly electro-fied production to give it some dancehall cred.

Viento Calido - Cumbia Titanic [ysi]

Grupo Sonadar - El Gigante de Hierro [ysi]

Yes, it’s intrepid friend Andy Blumpkin’s birthday, but differently-named and unarguably much more tasteful Uproot Andy has put out a effing bangin new mix titled Guacharaca Migration.  You should go to his myspace to download the whole thing, but here are sum tasters:

Kingston Town - Uproot Andy RMX [alt]

Vale La Pena - Uproot Andy RMX [alt]

['De la serie: La Cumbia eres tú' by ojjo on flickr]

Yo yo yo yo how is everyone enjoying this weather?  We don’t really have much to say that isn’t covered much better elsewhere - deaths, economic and otherwise, shattering crises that somehow perpetuate capitalism’s magic through thinkers, and of course springtime is on its way.  We really don’t have much to offer to repair these movings on, but we do have reparations for them… Enjoy and move around:

Luis Vargas - Tranquila

DJ Dollar - Affaire de Wolosso

Ok hai - we’re back.  Though many vacations and ups-and-downs have taken us, your resident geniuses, away from the computer, we thought we’d take the opportunity of this economic mindfuck to shoot you some songs detailing the economic relationships embiggening this perfectly cromulent country.

In the first, from the Republican aisle, TI enjoins the banks, indeed the financial institutions glueing this country together to do Whatever They Like.  Yes, they can have whatever they like.  They can go wherever you like.  TI will be there to bail them out: just pick up the telephone, Goldman Sachs, you want your $5 million dollar home?  You can do whatever you like, do the infectious beats and catchy hooks not convey this financial bailout to you?

BUT WAIT… doth exclaim Timberland & Little Lord Fauntleroy, darling butterflies of the revolution.  They are problematizing this distinction of the banks/commerce society AND the government on the one hand!  In this song, the US Government recognizes that they smashed the economy apart - and they’re a’gonna put it back together!  Through the pounding bassline, the fiction of the economic neoliberalist empire is revealed; indeed, the commerical industries are seen to ask, plaintively, to get the direction from you. Lets IMMERSE together, they shout in unison.

Well, we need a mediator.  And who’s a better mediator than a woman?  Eva Ayllon steps in (who wants to go with me to the show in November at Carnegie Hall?) to enjoin us that when the hour arrives, one must break up.  Time was good - oh, times woz very good - but in all the streets, listen to our voices, its time to just separate! Ultimately, government, the market loves you!

TI - Whatever You Like

Timbaland ft James Fauntleroy - Back Together

Eva Ayllon - Cuando Llegue La Hora

We don’t normally do this at TMYLM but a particularly abject night leads us to a reposting of this delicious DJ Hoff mix, which came to us via the Neutered Noel via The Sweet Fix via Discobelle (via ethanol subsidies powering electricity, newly responsible for fucking bagels rising to over $1).

DF Hoff - Stereo! Mix

Today TMYLM continues our tour of aural worldly delights, after a brief respite in honor of plagiarism and death surrounding the blogosphere in these darkened times. Yes, you’ll have to put on your famous sunglasses for these ones, both picked up, sans venereal disease, in a hostel somewhere in the southern hemisphere. First up we have rootsrock band Kultiration bringing in a dancehallish rhythm over some weird-ass Swedish mixing. Sounds lame until ya hear it, don’t ya know… Next up is Colombian band Aterciopelados notspinning out some cool ass cumbia but without the beats so prevalent in, well, these darkened times. Next time you’re waiting in some cold ass line to hear Diplo at your local shithole, you’ll appreciate these in your mind.

Kultiration - Sparkar Och Slag
Aterciopelados - Baracunatana

Well, we’re back. It was a fun trip, Il Duce Guiliani’s contribution to DF’s fashionable police scene notwithstanding. The beautiful Mexico DF, surrounded by quesadillas and tacos (but with some encroaching disturbing scenes, including a Domino’s pizza across the street from a Little fucking Ceasars). Thus, semi-happily borne into the berth of New York and with a smiley wink to all music loving friends in New York, the next few posts from this werld traveller will have some of the werld-ly music I picked up abroad.

Kumbia All Starz - Spidi Gonzalez
Ska Cubano - Yiri Yiri Bon (Dancehall Remix)