FSQ with Chuck Da Fonk 📻 May 5th 2021

Cumbia Con Banda

For Cinco De Mayo 2021, FSQ show host Chuck Da Fonk focuses in on two of his favourite Mexican musical genres – Cumbia and Banda – and then discovers these two distinct genres intersect at the funky rhythmic orchestrated sub-genre known as “Cumbia con Banda”

Mexico City family musical group Los Ángeles Azules are the premiere example of a Banda delivering Cumbia productions. Chuck traces Azules’ early 1990s evolution from Cumbia con Banda to Cumbia sinfónica (fully Orchestrated Cumbia) to today’s pop fuelled Cumbia Sonidera. La Décima Banda and Banda Torera Del Valle, both hailing from the Mexican state of Sinaloa, deliver a deeply localized version of the genre.

Don’t like Cumbia con Banda? There’s so much new music here beyond those genres, including ultra sleek modern JAMS by Hadiya George x Godmode Music, Feiertag, Kartell featuring SG Lewis, Los Wálters, Kali Uchis, Tra’zae Clinton and Mykki Blanco.

TRACK LIST

• Frente Cumbiero meets Mad Professor - Chucusteady - Dub

• Frente Cumbiero meets Mad Professor - Bestiales 77 - Dub

• Los Ángeles Azules - Entrega De Amor

• Hadiya George - Hot Flavor (Godmode Smash Bros Extended Remix)

• Smalltown DJs (Feat. Bootsy Collins) - Good Thang (Pat Lok Remix)

• Xinobi - Boats

• La Décima Banda - Popurri De Cumbias

• Cannonball Adderley · Nat Adderley Sextet · Rick Holmes - Taurus (Remastered 2008)

• Mass Production - Welcome to Our World (Of Merry Music)

• Obzesion - Mi Trokita Cumbia

• Dean & the Singing Blue Jeanne’s - Fantasy House

• Feiertag - Saccharine 374

• Kartell - Crossing Paths (feat. SG Lewis)

• Jungle - Keep Moving - The Blessed Madonna Remix

• Model Man - Love Surrounds (CINTHIE Remix)

• Myd - Let You Speak

• Dim Zach - Refind

• Los Wálters - Yo Sé QueTú Me Conoces

• Kali Uchis - Telepatía

• Yello - La Habanera -- feat. Rush Winters (Carl Craig Mix)

• Arcadia - El Diablo (2010 Remaster)

• Tra'zae Clinton - Hit Me Band (Got Your Back)

• Garrett Shider - Lucky Star

• Los Angeles Azules featuring Rodrigo Y Gabriela - La Cumbia del Infinito (De Plaza En Plaza)

• Guaynaa, Los Ángeles Azules - Cumbia a la gente

• Banda Torera Del Valle - Africanos Al Ataque

• Manolo Muñoz - Pudo Ser Cualquier Otra Cosa

• Mykki Blanco - Free Ride