Just a few new gems for you, since I´m back and had a little time to check my inbox. First one comes from Sonora, who brought you the Maluca and Major Lazer Guacharaca Remixes. Then we have “Beatriz Pichi Malen vs Funkystepz”, a dubstep mix with Mapuche canto from NiceNoise & Le Freak Selector (with whom I played a few times together in Barcelona´s Sala Apolo back in 2007 / 2008). And last but not least Pozorek provides a dry African drum cycle track called “Zebula”, fresh sounds out of the mountains from Canada.

Sonora – 2-Step

Nicenoise – Mapuche Funky

Pozorek – Zebula

Btw, I´m playing tonight @ Schikaneder in Vienna. Come around and say hello!

So, Switzerland was absolutely awsome, great people, great arty place, very multicultural (which I didn´t expect, however the booking assistant and technico de sonido were from Kairo and the crowd a mixture of Turkish, African, Italian and Swiss people). They even stayed on the dancefloor with my  breakcore twists and after the party I kept playing basketball with the bartenders, listening to some Estoninian dubstep. Sweet.

Next day at Femelek in Barcelona was also great, because it were only girls on stage and furthermore the audio-visual thing is defenitely a nice difference to only playing music. Thanks to Swiss VJ Laurie Bender for this and Marise and Vinilette, who organized the FEMELEK festival – dona, art i tecnologia – which has it´s 5th edition this year.

Tomorrow I´ll be returning to Vienna, and on thursday you find me playing at Schikander in the 5th district.

Come by and say hello if you are around!

Just got this new mixtape from Sylordub (Pedro D´Alessandro) in my inbox and like it. Pedro is resident at Switch Club in Argentina, which opened it´s door recently last year in September and will reopen after Argetinian winter slowly draws back. Furthermore Switch Club is more like a creative meeting place, where DJ´s, VJ´s, street artists and video gamers get together equally and where different styles just flow together. I like even more! And they require dancers for the dancefloor. Shoot, that´s my place.

“Switch Club is a freestyle dancefloor, that propose different rhythms (different from the music people of this city are used to listen) and new dancing steps: our dancefloor requires daring dancers!
We dedicate our club to a wide variety of styles like funk, dance hall, reggaeton, bastardpop, hip hop, bmore, electronic cumbia, electro, mashups, hip house and more.
The place’s esthetics is very cool. We try to summon different kind of artists to our club, like VJs, DJs, designers, street artists, or actors, because we are related to graphic design, fashion and urban styles. We also have lots of video games (arcades, PS3 and Wii) inside the place and we try to incorporare new technology all the time!

Plus, Codoba is the place where cuarteto comes from, ché! Pedro´s mix doesn´t only contain this of course, it´s more a broad mix of cumbia, bass, some dubstep influences, psy electro and very dancefloor friendly. Many of thr known cumbia people in there as well, like Uproot Andy, Largatijeando, Sonido del Principe and more.

Playlist after the jump:
1) Cumbia voladora – Bleepolar (Bleepolar)
2) Doloreando – Lagartijeando (http://www.myspace.com/elmatizundel)
3) Bemba kuriara – Mr. ioso (mr. ioso)
4) Shake it – Sonido del principe (http://www.myspace.com/sonidodelprincipe)
5) Cumbia Junk – Sandro Dalepedro (http://www.myspace.com/cnsg)
6) El Zombie – Fauna (http://www.faunapowa.com)
7) La danza del hombre churrumay (extended mix) – Black Mandingo (http://www.myspace.com/blackmandingo)
El Pescador Remix – Uproot Andy VS Toto (http://www.myspace.com/andygillis)
9) Cumbia Kamisama – Frikstailers (http://www.myspace.com/frikstailers)
10) Cumbia Regional – El Hijo de la Cumbia (http://www.myspace.com/elhijodelacumbia)
11) Animal Collective – MyGirls (El Remolon Cumbia Mix) (http://www.myspace.com/elremolon)

Tomorrow, thursday 4th, I´ll be on dubsquare radio show on sub.fm together w/ IZC (head of Vienna based Dubsquare record label). I´m really hyped about the invitation! Mad props to IZC.

And afterwards you´ll find me playing global bass, cumbia, distorted 8bit, balkan and breakcore tunes at Badeschiff, Vienna w/ the Club Side Down / Ready to Rumble crew. Tune in and / or pass by and say hello if you are around!

Dubsquare @ sub.fm 3 – 5 pm GMT
Club Side Down @ Badeschiff, Vienna 11 pm – ? am

Btw, this is also the beginning of my mini Euro tour, that completely organized itself all alone. 3 countries in three days: Vienna (Austria) on Thursday – Bern (Switzerland) on Friday – Barcelona (Spain) on Saturday. In celtic culture the number three means evolution, growth and a union between body, mind and soul. It manifests the beginning and the end, the eternal evolution and comprehension. It also symbolizes the past, the present and the future. On the other hand in Jewish culture, if something has been done three times, it´s considered to be permanent, called JAZAKA (explanation thanks to Species Mag March). Let´s see how this trip turns out!

Playlist for sub.fm here: