Explosión Negra
While in Medellin, Adam, Mike, and myself (Thor) spent most of our time hanging with Jeff Guerra and Robin Finley of The Arepa Magazine (thank you guys for being the best hosts). Robin is the director of The Arepa and Jeff is the editor and also one of the few DJ’s in Medellin that is really pushing nueva cumbia and global bass sounds. He showed me these videos of a local act and I was immediately blown away and knew exactly why we came to Medellin!
check this club smasher
Robin was telling me that he saw them they were playing at a library with 4 people in a auditorium!
Son De Mi Tierra:
Explosion Negra is 3 MC’s (Harry, Yommy, and Jaoson) from Choco that currently live in Medellin. Their music is a fusion of their Colombian roots- currulao, chirimia and cumbia mixed with dancehall, reggaeton and hiphop.
We arranged to meet them to see if they would be interested in collaborating on a track for the compilation. They took interest in a track that I had produced with some gaita and tamboras that we recorded during our month long stay in Bogota. I originally produced it as an instrumental but re-arranged it to work with Explosion Negra.
Click the link below to hear a raw teaser of what we did:
Thornato – Gaita ft Explosion Negra (teaser)
(the gaita and tambora is played by maestro Darwin Escorcia)
We will definitely be posting more on these guys as well as many more amazing sounds, videos and images so please stay tuned to the blog!
~ Thor