Moving from house to soul to furious latin beats, DJ/Producer Sabo is a man determined to make you move. Boasting an impressive catalog of remix projects and original releases, he is increasingly identified as a pioneer in the emerging Moombahton genre. We sat down with him during his recent tour through Colombia.
J: So where did [...]

Where’s the party? Just follow El Freaky! Focusing on premium latin grooves, this collective is coming on strong as one of Colombia’s leading creative elements. we checked in to get the full scoop.
J: So just what is El Freaky?
EF: We’re an audio-visual collective that launched two years ago as a monthly party in Bogota. We [...]

We’ve entered a new era in the music industry – MP3s are freely swapped online, and every teenager with a guitar has a band on Myspace. This modern ubiquity of music finds artists struggling to shine through, and Medellin’s Federico Goes may just have found the new model for success.
A true 21st century musician, Federico [...]

Photo Courtesy of Andres Hernandez
With reggaeton and vallenato ruling the radio waves of Colombia (Salsa fans coming in at a distant third) there is not much room for the rockeros. Don Tetto however is one Colombian group who has taken the power chords and pop-punk sound similar to Green Day and Blink 182 and turned [...]

By Hannah Aronowitz. Photos Courtesy of Red Bull.

If Barranquilla’s Carnaval was Colombia’s biggest party, Red Bull’s Dale Vatio Tour’s Bomba Estereo show on Sunday night was the epicenter of the fiesta. The outdoor venue of Plaza de la Aduana in Barranquilla held over three thousand fans and fiesteros for the sequence of sounds that came [...]

Medellin based L-Mental just dropped their newest album, “Espejos” and it is available in an impressive fold-out three-CD anthology/mini-box set which includes their first two albums as well as their lastest.
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Yes, Colombia’s cumbia/neo-tropical trendsetters Bomba Estereo just dropped a new remix EP on National Records and it is so hot the name of the album matches the heat, “Ponte Bomb.”
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“…this Colombian genius, who keeps expanding his horizon so extraordinarily that he might just be the most creative guy in Tropical music today.”
- CLUBFONOGRAMA January 28, 2010
One of the most important voices in the modern Colombian music scene is Pernett who has been dropping Cumbia and electronica and a whole fruit basket of Colombian rhythms [...]

Booming out of Medellin’s Comuna 13 is a fresh, summery new track from C15 entitled “Musica + Amor = Libertad.” Frontman Jeihhco Castaño, who is also the director of Elite Hip Hop, dropped this track last week with a very special message attached. Tired of the negative stereotypes surround the comuna, C15 stresses that the [...]

In Colombia, especially in Medellin, hip-hop is a big deal. The multi-generational local scene has a massive following of dedicated rappers and producers, as well as a number of hip-hop schools teaching music and dance as an alternative to violence.
Bohemio – laberinto ELC
For the past 10 years, Laberinto has been instrumental in both [...]