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post #16 of 29
6/30/10 at 6:00pm
Texas Tornados! Flaco Jimenez! Freddie Fender!
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post #17 of 29
6/30/10 at 6:05pm
mas flow
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post #18 of 29
6/30/10 at 6:17pm
la bamba!
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post #19 of 29
6/30/10 at 6:20pm
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Originally Posted by limester816 View Post
Thanks for the recs so far. I dig salsa, bossa, samba, and all of the latin jazz styles, but I'm mostly trying to get some modern, I guess you could say rock, music.

I like Mana, they aren't considered like the NSync of Latin America are they?

Try Julieta Venegas or Natalia Lafourcade. They make poppy-teeny tunes, but they are easy to listen to and you might even like them.

For rock, try Soda Stereo, Enanitos Verdes, Aterciopelados, La Unión, or Fobia. Those are some of the more representative/classic bands from latinamerica/spain.

Google "Rock en español" or "Rock mexicano", thats a genre by itself.
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post #20 of 29
6/30/10 at 6:26pm
elvis crespo
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post #21 of 29
6/30/10 at 6:37pm
this is a serious question: does anyone know cafe tacuba?
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post #22 of 29
6/30/10 at 7:02pm
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this is a serious question: does anyone know cafe tacuba?

Yes. Not a fan. Singer's voice is kind of annoying.
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post #23 of 29
6/30/10 at 7:07pm
Coge tu sombrero y póntelo
Vamos a la playa caliente el sol.
Vamos a la playa caliente el sol.
Chiri biri bi poro pom pom. Chiri biri bi poro pom pom. Chiri biri bi poro pom pom.
Chiri biri bi poro pom poooom
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post #24 of 29
6/30/10 at 7:17pm
If I could understand what they were saying, Narcocorridos sound pretty good. I just watched a video from Valentin Elizalde (RIP) A mis Enemigos. Sounded pretty cool. There's a scene from the movie Collateral with Tom Cruise where Jamie Foxx goes to visit Felix in his club, there's a poster on the wall of some musicians, I wondered if there were Narco singers.
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post #25 of 29
6/30/10 at 7:25pm
Joan Manuel Serrat
Luis Eduardo Aute
Joaquin Sabina
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post #26 of 29
7/1/10 at 12:54am
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Originally Posted by limester816 View Post
Thanks for the recs so far. I dig salsa, bossa, samba, and all of the latin jazz styles, but I'm mostly trying to get some modern..

Give Ojos de Brujo a shot.

At its core, this Spanish collective is Gypsy Flamenco blended seemlessly with bold modern colors. Slippery turntable chatter, deftly shifting percussion patterns and a tight horn section is par for the course. Add elements of hip hop, reggae, Arabic, Jazz and, to a lesser degree, rock.

ODB is really pushing "Spanish" music into the modern world imo. Try a few songs as there is a lot of variety in their sound. Start w/ Bari and Techari then delve into the Jazzy world of Aocana.

The song 'Zambra' (can be found on youtube) is an example heavily spiced with hiphop and rock while staying true to their Flamenco background.
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post #27 of 29
7/1/10 at 1:05am
I used to listen to La Preciosa alot simply because I'm too lazy to reprogram my car radio. I found it amusing that in almost every song, there was some phrase that would be recognizable even to a person like me who doesn't speak the language at all. Spanish seems like it would be well suited to learning in such a manner, and IIRC, has the smallest vocabulasry of any of the major languages.

Contrast that to a language like German, where- even if it's a word I'd recognize orthographically from what I picked up in high school German class- I might still not recognize it spoken/sung.

I'll go on record as saying that General MIDI is the worst thing ever to happen to Mexican pop music. Some of the stuff from the '60s is achingly beautiful with lush, gorgeous orchestrations, and then the more contemporary stuff just sounds like something They Might be Giants would have on their Dial-A-Song circa 1985.
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post #28 of 29
7/1/10 at 9:26am
One of my favorites is the Mexican Institute of Sound. It's an electronic act DJ-ed by the head of the EMI's Mexican subsidiary. I have no idea what 90% of the lyrics are but the music is great.
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post #29 of 29
7/1/10 at 9:31am
Stick to basics: Soda Stereo, Aterciopelados, Enanitos Verdes. Also Los Prisoneros and La Ley, both Chileans.
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