Cumbia Electrónica
Cumbia Electrónica , also Cumbia Digital or Electro Cumbia , is a style of electronic dance music that is based on the rhythm of the Colombian dance music style Cumbia . The fusion of styles developed from around 1995 in Latin America, especially in Mexico , Argentina and Chile .
Stylistic features
Cumbia Electrónica is based on the basic cumbia rhythm, which is played by a drum computer or drum samples. This consists of a 4/4 time at about 80 to 100 bpm , in which the quarter notes are emphasized by a bass drum ( bass drum ) and the unstressed eighth notes are followed by a conga beat. He is accompanied by maracas and other percussion instruments. Outside of this basic rhythm there are hardly any common stylistic features; rather, the musicians combine the basic rhythm with numerous different influences from pop and electronic music.
history
From the beginning of the 1990s, electronic musical instruments and guitars were used in the cumbia in the course of the emerging Tecno Cumbia (e.g. Selena ), but otherwise this style was still traditionally instrumented and did not follow any electronic production method. In the second half of the decade there were the first completely electronic interpretations of this dance music. Some of the first successful releases were Gonzalo Martínez y sus congas pensantes , an album created by the Chilean rock musician Jorge González in collaboration with various techno musicians, including Uwe Schmidt (then active under the stage names Atom Heart and Señor Coconut ), as well as some of the Mexican's songs Celso Piña . In 1996, Dick el Demasiado from the Netherlands , who was in Honduras at the time, initiated a series of festivals called Festicumex , which was dedicated to the experimental manifestations of the cumbia. In the following years, further isolated representatives of the electronic cumbia were able to establish themselves in Mexico as well as in Argentina and Chile.
From 2003 a new focus of the scene arose in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires when the Festicumex series was resumed there. In 2006, the mashup DJ Villa Diamante founded the Zizek series of events , which offered cumbia electronica musicians a forum and quickly became a crowd puller. In the wake of this series of events, DJs and producers such as El Remolón , Daleduro and Marcelo Fabián as well as the bands Frikstailers and Fauna became known. These mixed the cumbia with styles like minimal techno , funk , hip-hop , dubstep and drum 'n' bass .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Festicumex festival
- ↑ Manu Palacios: La Cumbia de la nueva era. ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Newton Las Pelotas. (Online magazine), July 16, 2008.
Web links
- Synths of Resistance: Argentine's Digital Cumbia , Urb Magazine, June 30, 2008