Sometimes there´s tracks which you hear for the first time and they strike you so hard, that you know they´re going to be big. When Man Recordings boss Daniel Haaksman was introduced to the freshly uploaded video to El Dusty´s „K Le Pasa“ by Till of So Shifty, he instantly knew the track was destined to become a club hit. In the video, a party gets out of bounds with girls grinding to a sexy cumbia groove and guys jumping up to the raw energy of „K Le Pasa“. Call it Cumbia Electro – mixing up classic Colombian cumbia with side chain compression and synth noise, Texas based producer and DJ El Dusty created the ultimate Latin banger that brings together the best of Europe and South America.

EL DUSTY

El Dusty hails from Corpus Christi on the Mexican Gulf coast and has been Djing since ages. A manic record collector, his sets combine the best of electro, cumbia and rap, a mix which resonates in „K-Le Pasa“.

The track was mixed and mastered in Berlin by Jan Driver of Boysnoize Records for that extra big sound.

Cumbia, Electro and a ready-to-party sound: This tune will heat up many floors this winter.

DJ Feedback:

Drop The Lime: “El Dusty Is Bananas. Woop Woop!”
Christian Martin / Dirtybird: “Heavy Mang”
Boris Dlugosch: “Bam! K Le Pasa Rocks. Support!”
Douster: “Cool”
Schlachthofbronx: “Big Tune! Full support”
Mixhell: “Big”
Acid Washed: “Big Ace!”
Larry Tee: “Good Fun”
Scottie B: “Another solid effort”
Bert On Beats: “The Banger”
Malente: “Fun. For the times when you gotta play hard”
So Shifty: “Fucking love this song. Gets a great crowd response everytime too.”
DJ Sabo: “Cool tune, Dusty is the homie, good to see him getting some recognition! ”
Act Yo Age: “WHOOOOAAA – PERFECT FESTIVAL MADNESS!! ”
Flore: “Killer”
Beat Laden: “Bomb!”
Moveltraxxx: “Wow, this is a hit!”
Pathaan: “Dope!”
Russ Jones: “Yes aye!”

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Our favourite Hamburg producers, So Shifty, just sent us their brand new Cumbia mixtape, it´s caliente!! Grab it from here:

Cumbia Y…. Sabor by So Shifty

While everyone is talking about the fusion of Moombathon and Cumbia bringing back a 110-below-aesthetic to the over-heated global bass dancefloors, good ol´Ku Bo makes a difference with his brand new edit of Columbia cumbia dons Cumbia Soledeña´s “Garabato”: With 181BPM, this Cumbia slammer makes Jumpstyle look like your mama´s afternoon tea dance!

Grab it from here:

Cumbia Soledeña – Garabato (Ku Bo Edit) by MANRECORDINGS

P.S. Ku Bo´s new EP is currently being mastered and will be release on Man Rec in November. Watch this space!

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….