What else is on your current rotation?ĬONTRERAS: OK, completely shifting gears.ĬONTRERAS: I brought in a track from a new album by a band from Mexico. The electronic instruments you mentioned - the cowbell it sounds like as well, Felix. It's from one of my favorite record labels, the folks at ZZK and AYA Records. But the rest of the album is full of playful lyrics and often just plain old silly but with killer grooves. Their album is called 'Millennial Cumbia For The End Of The World,' and we played an instrumental to open the segment this week. And they say their mission is to save the party in the, quote, 'post-pandemic dystopian multiverse of today,' right?ĬONTRERAS: Lofty goals for a band that is part of a movement in Colombia that links the Afro-Colombian traditions of cumbia with futurism and a nod toward those cool electronic instruments of the 1960s. The band describes their sound as millennial cumbia. Felix Contreras, this sounds like a soundtrack to another world.įELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE: This is indeed the world of a Colombian band called Los Cotopla Boyz.

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(SOUNDBITE OF LOS COTOPLA BOYZ' 'PLANKTON (ABANICO SANYO)'ĭo not attempt to adjust your radio.

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