This weekend I’ll be on a family trip without time to blog.. so it’s going to be an early weekend roundup tonight. Enough time to select the newest tracks for your sets this weekend! Usually, the mixtapes start piling up towards the end of the week. This week started with a delicious mixtape from the Haarlem based duo UMOJA for the transnational music platform Groovalizacion. Plenty of groovy, organic vintage tunes from all over the tropics in this one.. Get more info on Umoja and on this great mix here! Usually the tracks from Tu Guaina have a dark and barren vibe about them, which I always dig a lot. In this light-deep cumbia experiment, we’ll get to see another side of his emotional spectrum, but of course equally awesome and mind-altering! Dj Caution connects smoothly to this dreamy cumbia trip. In ‘Cholula’, meditative, deep electronic sounds, Andes flutes and accordion samples flow together in a deliciously slow cumbia groove! Grupo Jejeje is an exponent of what seems to be a wholly new style of cumbia. Electronic, mysterious but different from any of the other nu-cumbia styles we’ve seen so far. This fantastic track is my personal favourite this weekend: cumbia with dark, melodic synth sounds that […]