VivirLatino

It’s not just all live bands at the Latin Alternative Music Conference, it’s also DJ’s, spinning Latin American beats in all their diversity. Check some of them out tonight.

DJs like Oro 11 and Disco Shawn, who recently founded their own Bay Area label, Bersa Discos, mix traditional latin rhythms like cumbia with bass-heavy beats for a completely original and unique sound that has entranced Latino youth on dancefloors across Latin America on the United States . Toy Selectah, the mix-master wizard for Monterrey ’s “Hip Hop en Español” pioneers Control Machete, created a whole new hybrid by mixing Mexican soundscapes with contemporary urban beats. Lately he has been galloping the rural rhythms of Colombian-Mexican Cumbias, hip hop, breakbetas and Reggae creating his own trademark sound, live Soundsystem and Band called Sonidero Nacional. Zizek, which originated as a bi-weekly party in Buenos Aires and toured the U.S. this Spring, including a packed show at SXSW, keeps crowds on their toes with emerging Hip Hop, Dancehall, and Reggaetón records, mixing them with electronic sounds like Grime, Crunk, Bastard Pop and Mashups.