Ku Bo is in the studio putting the finishing touches to his upcoming debut album which will be released on Man Rec in late September 2010. Usually being the man that provides the baddest beats for various lady vocalists, he also re-touched some amazing Cumbia stuff, namely Las Pilanderas Momposinas which any Cumbia fan knows.

Grab the Las Pilanderas Momposinas “Cumbia Soledeña” (Ku Bo Edit) here:

Las Pilanderas Momposinas “Cumbia Soleneña” (Ku Bo Edit) by MANRECORDINGS

Photo by Jean-Paul Goude

You can find the above mixtape over at Dancing Cheetah blog. I haven’t listened to it yet but it looks like a really interesting mix of cumbia, carimbó, tecnobrega, merengue, funana, coupe decale, reggaetón and some arabian shit.

you can download it here

When recently posting the video of “Ghost Town” by The Specials in the “Man Recordings Inspiration Series”, I received various emails from across the globe from people saying that this song was highly influential for them too. On my trip to Buenos Aires with Deize, I met Fantasma, a musician who is appropriating songs from European pop and making the finest digital cumbia out of it. One of the songs he gave me was his cumbia version of “Ghost Town”.

Download it from here:
Fantasma – Ghost Town

Only two weeks after my posting I found out that NY T-Shirt chief rockers Supreme made a T-Shirt with lines out of “Ghost Town” (see above). Seems there´s something in the air about The Specials….

See MC Gringo perform “Föcky Föcky” and some of his other baile funk anthems live – with Frikstailers in Cordoba, Argentina. Expect Baile-Cumbia hybrids soon on Man Recordings. Funk Mundial #8 will see an allstar line up from ZZK Buenos Aires, consisting of Chancha Via Circuito, Frikstailers, El Remolon and Douster team up with a new bunch of Rio funk MCs.