tell me about Spanish language Dancehall

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er. please.

― OCP (OCP), Friday, 19 December 2003 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know much about south american dancehall, but in spain there's two names who own this thread:

MORODO
RAGGAFLA

can't give you much more info right now, but you'll probably find something on soulseek...

― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 19 December 2003 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

There's at least one compilation of spanish dancehall available, I'm still kicking myself for not buying it when I saw it in Madrid this February.

― Brian Miller, Friday, 19 December 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you mean "reggaeton," the Spanish language Puerto Rican style rap? A few people have mentioned it on other strings, and I saw a Jon Pareles NY Times article that focussed on reggaeton rapper Tego Calderon. The style is big in Spanish language clubs in the US.

There are a number of compilations out plus Calderon and others have their own cds out.

― Steve Kiviat (Steve K), Friday, 19 December 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Reggeton is so much better than dancehall it's not even funny. I get a Spanish video channel that plays almost nothing but reggeton videos, and they're fantastic. Ass for miles.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 19 December 2003 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I was in Mexico City recently and kept hearing what soundsed like dancehall, in Spanish, booming from street CD vendors. Folks there just called it raggae. Some of it is very dancehall, some straight up latin pop.

I bought a bunch of bootleg CD-R comps of the stuff. Most start with an introductory collage of clips from each song to follow, and some end with a mix also. Some just give the song title with no artist name.

A lot of it samples or plays off of northern pop music. One song rips off / parodies the synth line to that "I Like To Move It Move It" song. Other appropriations: "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This," "The Real Slim Shady." The beats are generally of the Kxxx-xxSx-Kxxx-Sxxx type rather than the more standard dancehall Kxxx-xxKx-xxSx-xxxx (where K=kick, S=snare).

My favorite tune has got to be Bombay's "Papi Chulo". It's a very thrown together sounding cut-and-paste job. Samples the main licks from "Groove is in the Heart," "Ice Ice Baby" and that "Y'all Ready for This?" vocal from 2 Unlimited. Sounds like the rhymes have been pitch shifted up. Bizarre and infectious.

Not sure if alot of this counts as dancehall really, but here are some names, anyway:

Pesadilla Flow - "Soy Tu Maestro"
Chombo - "El Perro Volador" (lots of dog noises)
Principal - "Chinga Tu Madre"
Baby J - "Marihuana" (record with Dusminguet)
Coco Man - "El Marciano" (w/ pitch-shifted Spanish toasting - honest)
Blacki D - "Dale Pa Arriba"
Big Boy - "Maria"

― Ben Jackson, Sunday, 21 December 2003 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"Papi Chulo" is indeed la bomba, although all my friends in Barcelona strictly forbid me from playing it when I lived there. Perhaps popism hasn't really hit Spanish hipsters yet.

And whatever happened to El General? I was talking with some guys from Nortec about him the other night - we sort of jokingly decided we want to track him down and hire him to do some new vocals. Our guess is that he owns a tire shop in Panama City or something. Any leads?

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Sunday, 21 December 2003 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Reggaeton is the best dancin' music EVER.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 21 December 2003 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 21 December 2003 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you mean "reggaeton," the Spanish language Puerto Rican style rap?

I guess I do! Thanks dudes--slsking as we speak!

― OCP (OCP), Monday, 22 December 2003 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

papi chulo is indeed la bomba, but it probably isn't popular among the spanish hipsters because it's massive around here, this last summer you heard it absolutely everywhere. it was easy to get sick of it after such overexposure.

― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 22 December 2003 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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Haha.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

I Help Me Dancehall Raggae Song

― Biruk, Friday, 19 March 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

puerto rican reggae is nothing nut a bite of panamian reggae from old jamaican riddims from the early 90's

http://www.musicofpuertorico.com

http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/cgi-bin/cutecast/cutecast.pl?

― rickk, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

puerto rican reggae is nothing nut a bite of panamian reggae from old jamaican riddims from the early 90's

http://www.musicofpuertorico.com

http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/cgi-bin/cutecast/cutecast.pl?

― rickk tas, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i just picked up Power 96 Presents Dancehall Nice Again 2004: Reggae Y Reggaeton

pretty nice mix. the english language dancehall has some tracks i already know, but the Reggaeton is all new to me and very good

and the chicky on the cover (and especially inside) is a hottie

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard some recent Celia Cruz (!) on a Latin music radio show on the Detroit public radio station this past weekend and thought, "Nice, some reggaeton", only to find out it was the queen of salsa. Classic.

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Thursday, 8 April 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

That must have been from her final, posthumous album, Regalo del Alma, which I'm just now getting around to listening to and I have to say it's not bad. You might have heard "Ella Ti Fuego." (And the second track sounds at least a little timbaesque to me. I guess working with contemporary Cuban elements wouldn't necessarily have gone against her staunchly anti-Castro stance.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

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