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Music for the Masses: Latin Music Rocks #4 (Audio)

Apr 03, 2022

A fiesta of rock en español, digital cumbia, tropical futurism, electro-funk y mucho más, from the 1960s to right now. Featuring music by Abelardo Carbonó, Angel d’Cuba, Aurelio, Brownout, The Cuban Cowboys, Eljuri, The Exciters, The Garifuna Collective, Irakere, Jean Paul El Troglodita, Juaneco y Su Combo, Kamerum, KillaBeatMaker, Kokodrilo, Krak in Dub, La Dame Blanche, La Mecánica Popular, La Mercosur, Ladama, Los Destellos, Nortec Collective, Palenke Soultribe, Ritmo Machine, San Lázaro, Sarazino, The Soul Fantastics, Willy Chirino, and Zombra Alterna. (Part 4 of a series.)

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid globe-hopper and armchair traveler alike. You might want to pack a map and a sandwich. Catskill resident "DJ Neva" is an ethnomusicologist, producer, and long-time cultural activist, specializing in music from the entire African continent, as well as the Caribbean and Latin America, the Maghreb, the Middle East, and the Roma (Gypsy) diaspora. Formerly the producer of "Continental Drift" on WBAI-FM and New York International on Haitian community station Radio Soleil in NYC. The show is broadcast live from Catskill, NY.

Playlists and more information here.

Selection of original DJ mixes here.