There’s been a wave of really nice brand new tracks on vinyl of late. This one comes to us from the artist formerly known as DJ Ryan at KALX and currently known as Roger Más. He has a new project called Los Disco Duro, that builds on his previous Nu-Cumbia work under his own name and expands it into a style the boys are calling Sonido Robótico. For this debut 45, they’ve reconstructed two classic cumbias, “Te Lo Creo” and “Muchachada,” into synth heavy, club ready bangers with robotic vocoder vocals. While these sounds clearly would find a good home on most latin dance nights, they update to the classic cumbia sound also makes it real easy to throw into most any set where you want to get the people moving. Hoping for much more from this project in the coming months & years!
I'm not knowledgeable at all about cumbia–just have to get that out there–so this immediately made me think of Selena's Techno Cumbia. Had to scoot over to YouTube for a listen. It was the only Selena song I liked, and I still like it. What a loss that her life and career were cut short.