The Cumbia Cosmonauts are producers Soup (mix, fx, guitar)
and saca la mois DJ!! (vox, fx), most frequently featuring Carlos Parraga (accordion, percussion, casio), and other explosive musicians like Richard Burns (trumpet, melodica), David Williams (keys, synth, guitar) and Thomas Campbell (percussion).
"Adapted by electronic musicians, South American dance rhythms are exciting international audiences more familiar with techno and hip hop - nowhere more so than in Melbourne where cumbia and dub is fused by the floor-filling Cumbia Cosmonauts project. Prepare for cultural collisions and donkeys in space..." Brent Clough on
'The Night Air', ABC Radio National.
"Every set of theirs I’ve seen has managed to get all sorts of people shaking, jumping and yelling out chants of Cumbia...their live show is fueled with jamming, cowboy hats, a good ol’ casio and plenty of accordion."
Scatterblog (Melbourne)
"From South America by way of Down Under, this is a very cool spacy take on the nu cumbia sound!"
Generation Bass (Netherlands)
"The Cumbia Cosmonauts are creating their own place on the Australian music scene."
Fusion Latina, Channel 31 TV.
"The Cumbia Cosmonauts bring a stripped back, at times dubbed-out re-version to the fore, hinting that a twist on the Cumbian-norm might be Australia’s next top export." Stu Buchanan, FBi FM (Sydney)
discontentblog.com
"Nowadays, there are neo-cumbia producers in the most random places like Australia...and they all share that same unprejudiced vision of cumbia and that’s what makes them so fresh!" Juan Data (San Francisco, USA)
THE HARD DATA blog
Tropical space cowboys The Cumbia Cosmonauts are fast invading Australia with their monumental fiesta sound from outer Latin America.
Their music is futurist-folk, refined low-fi culture based on the raw Afro-Caribbean cumbia roots music of Colombia mixed with Central European instrumentation and Jamaican dub wizardry; the Mexican electronic sonideros; Peruvian psychedelic chicha funk and the digital cumbia experimentation happening in Argentina.
The Cumbia Cosmonauts are Australia's first cumbia sound system, led by producers Moses “saca la mois DJ!!” Iten and Thomas “Soup” Campbell (Miso, Editor), and frequently joined by explosive accordion player Carlos Parraga (Barons Of Tang).
Before having made an official release, The Cumbia Cosmonauts have already begun to work with their musical heroes, producing remixes for some of Latin America's most renowned electronic-folk artists such as Nortec Collective (Mexico), Tremor (Argentina) and Radiokijada (Peru/France).
Taking The Cumbia Cosmonauts' sound to Europe, saca la mois DJ!! toured in July/August 2009, DJing ten cumbia shows in Barcelona, Berlin, London, Rotterdam and the massive Caribbean party Antilliaanse Feesten Hoogstraten (Belgium), as well as Lowlands Festival (Netherlands). During the tour saca la mois DJ!! played with nueva-cumbia outfits The Peronists (Argentina), Sonido del Principe (Netherlands), Bomba Estereo (Colombia), Chicha Libre (USA)...and even had some beers with El Hijo de la Cumbia (Argentina).
For bookings and music, contact mosesiten[at]gmail.com
FEEDBACK SO FAR... "We dig The Cumbia Cosmonaut's toetapper 'Incoming'" - Johnny Topper, New & Groovy, 3RRR (Melbourne)
"Really good vibes here i like" - Azaxx (Rennes, France)
"We also love cumbia .. great tropical sounds here!" - Makossa & Megablast (Vienna, Austria)
"Muy buenos temas!" - Fantasma (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
"Chido!!! buena cumbiota por melbourne!!" - bootlegumachine.blogspot.com (Mexico City)
"Ke buena cumbia señores!!!" - Territorio Comanche (Barcelona, Spain)
"Hey!!!.....I love it!!!" - El Trip Selector (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
"ELEGANTE !!!!" - Monareta (Bogota - New York, USA)
"Eyy!! que bueno! nos alegra ver gente cumbiando en Melbourne!" - Frikstailers (Cordoba, Argentina)
"Gozala cumbia sabrosita!' - Randy Salazar (La Joya - Monterrey, Mexico)
"Sounds great." - Chicha Libre (New York, USA)
"Nice funny tune." - Altz (Japan)
"I'm licking your cumbias!" - DJ Farrapo (Bologna, Italy)
"Ahuevo compadres!" - Maria y Jose (Tijuana, Mexico)
"Great sound!!!!!!!" - DJ Amazing Clay (Brazil)
"Really digging your style." - DJ Asha (London, England)
"Bravo amigos, está buenisimo." - Cumbia Chicharra (Marseille, France)
":) me gusta" - Los Amparito (Tijuana, Mexico)
"mera diversion con The Cumbia Cosmonauts..." - Jack's Son (Guadalajara, Mexico)
"Fun sounds fellow cosmonauts!!" - Nickodemus (New York, USA)
"Sounds good!" - Uproot Andy (New York, USA)
"Que Chido carnales....se ve que se la pasan bien por alla en Australia..." - La Super Cumbia Futurista (Mexico City)
"Aguante pibe!!" - Chancha Via Circuito (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
"I really like your choons. Keep up the good work.Ciao amigos! Cuuuuummmmmbiaaaaa!" - Kinky Electric Noise (Miami, USA)
"Good sounds of cumbia!!!" - Fauna (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
"I love The Cumbia Cosmonauts!!" - Miel Fraga (Tokyo, Japan)
"Buenísimo!" - Electronic Latin Beats radio (Ibiza & Los Angeles)
RADIO BROADCASTS of The Cumbia Cosmonauts: Pathaan's Musical Rickshaw (BBC, London, England)
Dos Mundos (CIUT 89.5fm, Toronto, Canada)
Stinky Grooves (www.95bfm.com, Auckland, New Zealand/Aotearoa)
Electronic Latin Beats (ibizasonica.com, Spain & audiolemental.com, USA)
Sonett77 Electronic Dance Music Radio (Berlin, Germany)
Future Fusion Global Warning, syndicated on Radio Active 89FM (Auckland, New Zealand); Pulse Radio (Australia); Right On FM (France); Radio Multicult 2.0 (Germany)
The Rhythm Lab (Minnesota, USA)
Home&Hosed (triple j, all over Australia)
The Night Air (ABC Radio National, all over Australia)
In The Loop (Radio Australia, all over Pacific/Asia)
Mondo Electrico (PBS, Melbourne)
The Latin Connection (PBS, Melbourne)
Trans Europe Express (PBS, Melbourne)
Bass Culture (PBS, Melbourne)
Dappled Beats (PBS, Melbourne)
Breaking & Entering (3RRR, Melbourne)
Wax Lyrical (3RRR, Melbourne)
Local and/or General (3RRR, Melbourne)
New & Groovy (3RRR, Melbourne)
Alterlatino (3ZZZ, Melbourne)
Discontent (FBi, Sydney)
Extended Play (2SER, Sydney)
Departure Lounge (2SER, Sydney)
Cumbianauts incoming!!!!
DJ Chucuchu - aka "El Emperador de la Cumbia Freestyle" - DJing The Cumbia Cosmonauts in his hometown of Tijuana, Mexico:
Video of our second Melbourne show (filmed at Horse Bazaar 3 December 2008 on mobile phone by Tolga Imam):
Our show on Fri 11 December at the East Brunswick Club, with a huge line up featuring Mojo Juju and the Snake Oil Merchants and Mikelangelo and the Tin Star; two of our very favourite acts. Hope to see you there
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Hola que tal????? Bueno te contamos que estamos muy felices por la salida de nuestro segundo web video, "Chapalele Baby", esperamos saber tu opinión y que lo disfrutes, saludos y nos vemos pronto. JKL
Sitars n Bleeps - Melbournes first Eastern Electro and Dub festival! This Saturday 17th October at First Floor, 393 Brunswick St, Fitzroy. 9 PM!! Featuring Dub the Magic Dragon, Bulke, DJ Lord Lingham, DJ BP, with Visual Arts from Arnold Eye and Irons! It will be a call for racial harmony in the wake of recent violence towards Indian immigrants living in Australia! We will celebrate our cultural diversity and human likeness with performances from artists of a wide variety of racial and cultural backgrounds. One world, One people, One love!
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