Tropicalismo massive, we're back and coming at you LIVE this Saturday (
Facebook event page HERE) with a very special guest --
Perched 13,000 feet above sea level, the Bolivian capital, La Paz, is not for the faint of lungs. For Sonido Martines, it's the high-altitude base camp for his continental excursions to dig up rare cumbia, chicha, and sonidera vinyls from across Latin America. Prowling back-alley record shops and massive street markets, Sonido Martines collects rare groove gems from Buenos Aires, Lima, Bogotá, and Mexico City, and is known for turning classic and obscure cumbias alike into dancefloor bangers.
His tastemaking talent led to the groundbreaking 2009 compilation, Sonido Martines Presenta: Nueva Cumbia Argentina, The Buenos Aires Implosion! on Soot Records. More recently, in February 2013, he went head-to-head with DJ /rupture on 2200 vs. 1100, a cumbia mixtape available in its entirely only at a single New York City taqueria, a wild throwback in the age of digital distribution.
Now, for his first time in Philly, Sonido Martines will join the Tropicalismo DJs -- your tried'n'true duo of Juanderful and Gregzinho -- for a night of tropical grooves on Saturday, July 13 inside The Black Box at Underground Arts, the city’s “best new venue” according to the Philadelphia City Paper.
>>>It's been far too long since we've had a proper Tropicalismo party and so we want to treat YOU, the ones who work it out with us on the dance floor from Walnut Room to Fluid to Dahlak Paradise to the Night Market. Just hit us back at this e-mail address tropicalismo.philly@gmail.com with your name and you plus a guest will be on a special $3 list until midnight.<<<
Tropicalismo Returns
Sonido Martines (Bolivia)
Residents: Juanderful and Gregzinho
The Black Box @ Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St.
10 pm – 2 am, 21+
$7 cover, or $5 until midnight with
**RSVP**
