Jack Radio – The best new music from Colombia and around the world.  This week with music from Sabrothers as well as an interview with Rafeal Diaz from Sandunga Discos.  Broadcast from the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia, this is Jack Radio where we play a mix of music from from around the world, and are committed to showcasing the incredible local talent here across the country.  Tune in to 101.9 FM every Saturday night at 9 PM to listen live or visit us here for the recorded version.

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This Week’s Playlist:

Jugement Dernier – Island 1973

DJ Meme – Canto Pro Mar (Special ReKwest)

Bhangra Pujabian Da – Ishq di Maari (Chong X Edit)

Cassius – The Sound Of Violence

Sabrothers Band – Apulo

Sabrothers Band – Transmilenio

Los Vigilantes – Nunca Sabras

Las Ardillas – Nancy

Locussolus – I Want It (Lindstrom & Prins Thomas Remix)

Sound Stream – “Live” Goes On

Dennis Ferrer – Funu (Hi-Life Mix)

Destra Garcia – Attitude

Jack Radio Colombia – Episode 98 by Jack Radio on Mixcloud

Jack Radio – The best new music from Colombia and around the world.  This week with music from Sixto Salgado as well as an interview with visiting grad students from NYU.  Broadcast from the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia, this is Jack Radio where we play a mix of music from from around the world, and are committed to showcasing the incredible local talent here across the country.  Tune in to 101.9 FM every Saturday night at 9 PM to listen live or visit us here for the recorded version.

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This week’s playlist:

Cybernetiko – Electrico

Jurassic 5 – Hey

2Pac – Do For Love

El Remolon – Cumbia Bichera (Tremor Remix)

Sixto Salgado – Recordando Al Grande

Sixto Salgado – Señora Maria Macho

Billy The Gent – La Mania (Sabo’s Corto Edit)

Wine & Cheese – Pass That Funk

Knightlife – Serves You Right (Bobby Boomerang Remix)

Kuenta i Tambu – Ban Selebr’e

Souljazz Orchestra – Secousse Soukous

Issa Bagayogo – Filaw (Chief Boima Remix)

Jack Radio Colombia – Episode 97 by Jack Radio on Mixcloud

Jack Radio – The best new music from Colombia and around the world. Broadcast from the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia, this is Jack Radio where we play a mix of music from from around the world, and are committed to showcasing the incredible local talent here across the country. Tune in to 101.9 FM every Saturday night at 9 PM to listen live or visit us here for the recorded version.

Remember to follow Jack Radio on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jackmagazine

This week’s playlist:

DJ Enne – The Impatient Man

Calle 13 – La Tribu (Self Evident Remix)

Tropico Esmeralda – Sin Querer Queriendo

Big L – Put It On

New York Boogie Dept. – Change Of Heart

Tambi – You Don’t Know (Horse Meat Disco Remix)

Lee Webster – Ounce (Cheeky Detroit Things)

Grupo Bota – Batipzan

Grupo Naidy – Estaba Llorando

Grupo Naidy – La Balsada

Oxford – Teinto

Crazy P – Beatbox (PBR Streetgang Remix)

Tony Lionni – Always There

Kemetic Just – For Your Love (Pepe Bradock Remix)

Colombia’s La Guajira desert is not an easy place to reach, sitting out on arugged peninsular horizon in the northernmost part of the country. It looks out into the blue Caribbean Sea where dozens of tugboats move coal from Cerrejón, the nation’s largest coal mine, to behemoth cargo ships awaiting delivery in distant floating ports.

This harsh desert ecosystem was one of the first sites that Spanish explorers encountered upon arriving in the Americas. Today, its spectacular scenery and relative isolation tend to attract only the more adventurous road trippers in search of a unique experience quite unlike that found anywhere else in the country.

While rich in coal, natural gas and salt reserves, there’s very little tourism infrastructure to be found in the La Guajira department. “Accomodation” often means a hammock to go along with your plate of rice, beans, and roasted goat, and spotty electricity means refrigerators, fans, and other appliances regularly come and go. Once the sun dips down, it’s a dark landscape set to the sound of waves whooshing in from the sea. For many of course, this is its main appeal.

About fourty-five percent of La Guajira’s population is indigenous, with members of the Arhuaco, Koguis, Wiwa and Wayuu nations currently inhabiting ten reservations across the department. The Wayuu, pictured here, live on the edge of two worlds: one driven by mining and progress, the other by roots and clan.

With international guests like Anita Tijoux, and El G (co founder of ZZK records in Argentina, as well as Colombian artists such as Panorama and Crew Peligrosos, this will be a big Colombian kick-off to a great year of music and performance. Tickets are available at the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation, located in La Candelaria. For the full line-up check it out on the festival’s page here.

Jack Radio Colombia – Episode 95 by Jack Radio on Mixcloud

Jack Radio – The best new music from Colombia and around the world. This week with music from Pirañas as well as an interview with Luis Daniel Vega from Festina Lente Discos. Broadcast from the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia, this is Jack Radio where we play a mix of music from from around the world, and are committed to showcasing the incredible local talent here across the country. Tune in to 101.9 FM every Saturday night at 9 PM to listen live or visit us here for the recorded version.

Remember to follow Jack Radio on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jackmagazine

This week’s playlist:

Eprom – If

El Tigre – Quien Como Yo

Jiggy D – Me Vale

Crew Peligrosos – Calle Boogaloo

Pirañas – Hueles A Espiritu Joven

Bituin – Palomas Que Andan Volando

Peregoyo y Su Combo Vacana – Mi Buenaventura

Curupira – Es Ojo Por Ojo

Morfonia – Bienaventurados

Mucho Indio – Kubeo

Dany F ft. Caballo – No Llores

Explosion Negra – Bailalo Pues

Washed Out – Amor Fati

De Juepuchas – Domingo En La Noche

Lido Pimienta – Mueve

Spoek Mathambo ft. The Frown – Melodi

Etelvina Maldonado – Manuelita (Uproot Andy & Geko Jones Remix)

Jack Radio – The best new music from Colombia and around the world. This week with new music from Vandelklang as well as an interview with Jim Davies, director of Septima Photos. Broadcast from the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia, this is Jack Radio where we play a mix of music from from around the world, and are committed to showcasing the incredible local talent here across the country. Tune in to 101.9 FM every Saturday night at 9 PM to listen live or visit us here for the recorded version.

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This week’s playlist:

Cybernetiko – En Tu Memoria

Buraka Som Sistema ft. Bomba Estereo – Burakaton

The Holidays – Broken Bones (CFCF Remix)

Katalyst ft. Diverse – Dedicated

Captain Sensible – Wot

Tomboy – Swan (12” Extended)

Eddie C – Get Down

Vandelklang – P1

Vandelklang – Perdedor

Soft House Company – What You Need

Domeyko/Gonzalez – Unachor (Nile Delta remix)

Telephones – Kanal (Prins Thomas Sure Oppstot)

Mic Newman – The Fidelity

The contemporary art world has its share of wire-rimmed sourpuss critics; in this article Vivana Palacio shares a peek into the world of Colombian artist Esteban Garcia who invites the critics to let their hair down and have some fun.

In Languages of Art, a text that would later become iconic in 20^th century aesthetic theory, American philosopher Nelson Goodman asked whether it is art’s practicality, its playfulness or its communicability that makes it important and attractive.  He pointed out, “…what all three miss is that the drive is curiosity and the aim enlightenment… what compels is the urge to know, what delights is discovery…”

The art, design, and research of Esteban Garcia are reminders that art is about fun, and also about the everyday mysteries and games that challenge the imagination and question the way we construct thought and knowledge.

Garcia is a Colombian-born artist currently working in Indiana while completing Doctorate studies in Electronic and Time-Based Media.  Also known as Snebtor, he has undertaken a hybrid enterprise through digital art works, video-projection pieces, sound projects and experimental efforts. In his words, he is interested in working “with new media tools using performance, interactive devices and drawings.” Ultimately he is a mixer — blending images, sounds, games and viewer participation/interaction.

Art as fun and “sense of play” are neglected subjects within contemporary art discourse; this is especially true in countries like Colombia, where art is regularly tasked with addressing socio-political matters. Esteban Garcia bucks this dour trend with drawings and illustrations that are playful, spontaneous, wicked and joyful. To wit: lettuce with a face that spells out “philosophers disagree on the concept of beauty”, a house made of waffles entitled “road trip”, and fluorescent green and pink underwater creatures. They are quick works that reveal childlike pleasure and enjoyment: cut-paper, doodles, and a coloring book made in collaboration with Jordan Cleland.

Carrying play still further, Garcia also explores the possibility of a parallel experience in creating collaborative fantasy fictions. His role-play live acts combine music and video projections with his own character portrayals: The Dead Druglords, The Meatballz, and most recently, Revenge Eternal.  The Meatballz, a project in collaboration with Aaron Nemec, is a cartoon band that combines music and comics about meatballs and sauce parties.

Italian theorist Francesco Careri believes that sense of play and free creative activity allow us, “to design aesthetic and revolutionary actions that undermine or elude social control.”  Even the simplest of games can be vehicles of knowledge; Garcia’s works can thus be seen in this context as playspaces of the collective mind and culture.

P.H.I.L. is an animatronic groundhog made, Garcia says, “in response to PETA’s petition to replace Punxsutawney Phil with a robot”. Each year, Groundhog Day is celebrated in the U.S. town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania and features a groundhog named Phil that is used to prognosticate the weather. According to tradition, if Phil sees his shadow and returns to his hole, he has predicted six more weeks of winter. If Phil does not see his shadow, he has predicted an early spring. Garcia’s P.H.I.L. is programmed to constantly run away from his shadow — a permanent winter prognostication that is quite accurate of late in these latitudes.

Beto the bt corn is a 3-D game that comes with the following instructions: “Many consumers don’t know that genetically modified foods have been deemed ‘substantially equivalent’ to other foods by executive order, and therefore passed with little regulation to the public without their knowledge or consent.  Help Beto Collect all the high-fructose corn syrup products and solve this mystery.” Innocent-looking on the surface, both P.H.I.L. and Beto are calls to rethinking our interaction with the natural world.

Esteban Garcia’s works are equal parts programming technology, computers, pencil and paper – they invoke sense of play while revealing much more in their underlying examination of the construction of knowledge.

Check out more of Esteban Garcia’s work at http://www.snebtor.chiguiro.org/

The streets of Colombia offer a colorful taxonomy of entrepreneurial push carts; here, decontextualized, these convenience stores on wheels serve as a glimpse into Colombia’s informal employment sector. In a country where over 60% of the population lives in poverty, they speak of financial hardship and hope, independence, desperation, and daily survival.

Many of these carts display the sort of hybrid construction techniques that would make MacGyver proud. In true do-it-yourself fashion, they are cobbled together using whatever materials are available: grocery carts, baby carriages, milk crates, scraps of wood, duct tape, and the multi-purpose plastic bag.

They typically offer passing pedestrians everything from food and drink to cigarettes, cell phones, DVDs and even fishing poles, often with a mobile BBQ thrown in on the side. Once in a while you’ll stumble upon a vendor serving his own unique market niche, such as the mango and shoelace guy (picture above).

The pirate ship cart above is a super-deluxe model with every option and on-board accessory included. Its main sail announces that cell phone calls can be made here for 200 pesos a minute, and the main deck offers all manner of snacks, an FM radio, and even a rear-view mirror for the captain’s view (safety first!) Open at least 10 hours a day, most push carts have a space behind the storefront display to tuck away personal items such as lunch, an umbrella, a garbage bag, and most importantly, the cash register.

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