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Han transcurrido algunos meses desde el ultimo MundoMix. Sin embargo, este tiempo a sido productivo en lo que respecta a la busqueda de nuevos artistas y musica nueva en general. Algo de lo que hemos encontrado lo hemos includido en este MMx. Con mucho placer 'descubrimos' artistas como NNeka y Bongo Batrako. NNeka es una joven cantante alemana, de ascendencia nigeriana, con una voz maravillosa y un estilo musical que conjuga distintos generos e influencias musicales para crear un estilo... Read Full Story

Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez (born November 29, 1946 in San Antonio de los Baños) is a Cuban musician, and a leader of the nueva trova movement. He is known for his highly eloquent and symbolic lyrics. Many of his songs have become classics in Latin American music, such as Ojalá, Playa Girón, Unicornio and La maza. Rodríguez, musically and politically, is a symbol of the Latin American left. Several of his songs praise the revolutionary figure Che Guevara (and he is also currently a deputy in... Read Full Story

From a BBC article So named because so many of the records were deemed unfit for radio airplay and therefore were suitable only for the dancehall. And the controversy didn’t stop there.   Dancehall reggae established itself through characters like Yellowman and General Echo and a penchant for slackness (as bawdy lyrics were known). This deejay-led, largely computerized, upstart music seemed to epitomise the 1980s with dub poet Mutabaruka maintaining, "if 1970s reggae was red, greed and gold... Read Full Story

En su concepto inicial, el 360Cafe.net es un medio basado en audio.  Sin embargo, ocasionalmente hemos incluido videos como una forma de variar la rutina y aprovechar el disfrute adicional del medio audio visual combinado con la buena musica. En esta ocasion recurrimos exclusivamente al video como documento palplable de la grandeza de la salsa clasica y el irrepetible talento de sus interpretes mas emblematicos.  Nos gustaria saber su opinion del formato de video para considerar su... Read Full Story

Carnival is a public celebration taking place immediately before the Christian Lent (the actual date varies from the end of January to the begining of March, depending on the year) and combines elements like customs, parades, and street parties.  In spite of major differences in its celebration around the world, carnivals common denominator es that it is a period of permisiveness and celebrational mayhem. The world's biggest carnival celebration is in Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). However, other... Read Full Story

Hemos escogido el genero de Rock En Espanol para comenzar este 2011.  De los distintos estilos de rock en espanol, el que mas nos gusta es el ritmico, suave pero percusivo, y casi siempre poblado con una mixtura de generos populares latinoamericanos y caribenos. En esta edicion hemos incluido musica de tres artistas/groupos espanoles de mucha categoria (Fito y Los Fitipaldis, Macaco, Jarabe de Palos), Juanes y Alex Cuba (artista cubano radicado en Canada).  Tambien musica de dos artistas que... Read Full Story

Another year ends and another year of great music at 360Cafe.net.  To wave farewell to this 2010 we have prepared this MundoMix edition.  We have selected a representative mix of music reflective of the essence of what 360Cafe.net is.  Artists from Cuba, Ivory Coast, Brazil, Spain, Nigeria, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Colombia, and Argentina. Afro-beat, reggae, salsa, porro, jit jive, forro, flamenco.  A great mix of styles, rhythms, voices, genres -- maximum diversity, with common denominators... Read Full Story

AfroCubismo: Reunion De Gigantes, Unidos Por La Musica por Banning Eyre (Reporte de NPR - National Public Radio) Noviembre 8, 2010 En 1966, el productor britanico Nick Gold trato de reunir los mejores musicos del occidente de Africa y Cuba para ver que podria resultar.  Pero esta reunion musical se desmorono cuando los musicos africanos no pudieron llegar a La Habana.  El equipo de Gold tuvo que improvisar y se les ocurrio nada menos que el exitoso proyecto que fue Buena Vista Social Club... Read Full Story

From the BBC Hot Hot Hot star Arrow dies at 60 Soca musician Alphonsus "Arrow" Cassell, best known for his dancefloor anthem Hot Hot Hot, has died at the age of 60. He died of complications from brain cancer at his home on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, his brother said. Despite its earworm refrain - "Ole, ole, ole, ole, feeling hot, hot hot!" - Arrow's most famous song failed to make the UK top 40 on release in 1983.  A 1994 remix reached number 38, and the song remains a party... Read Full Story

Debo admitir que no soy muy fanatico de la globalizacion, particularmente en el ambito de la cultura y la musica.   En primer lugar, lo que menos necesitamos es una uniformidad general en las manifestaciones culturales y mucho menos si esta emerge a costo de los valores culturales y formas musicales y de expresion de los pueblos del mundo. Es con satisfaccion que palpamos que las fuerzas de la globalizacion, manifestadas por una presencia casi universal de los generos musicales del gettho... Read Full Story