Last Night's Mixtape

The first time I was introduced to the music of King Coya, it was during a late night reasoning session at my house with DJ Darwin of Mad Rad. He’s a big fan of global dance music and is in good with the folks at ZZK Records, the Argentinian space-age electro label that’s home to King Coya. If you didn’t already know, there’s a ton of good electronic music coming out of Argentina (Buenos Aires especially) right now and the folks at ZZK are at the forefront. Artists like Douster, Fauna, and Gaby Kerpel, who works as a renowed composer by day but moonlights as King Coya in his spare time, have taken their ballistic monthly club nights of playing freaked out electro cumbia and turned it into a movement.

As of last week, Coya’s debut album, Cumbias de Villa Donde, officially hit stores and fans of progressive electro music (especially stuff with a Latin swing to it) should check this one out. Cumbia is basically musica folkorica that started more in the Northern part of South America (Colombia/Ecuador/Peru) but is popular all throughout the Andes. Coya does a good job of flipping it on the new album, adding elements of Argentinian folk and downtempo, and then blending it all together so the ten tracks on Cumbias de Villa Donde have a distinct Buenos Aires lounge feel. It’s not an album full of club bangers like this joint but it’s chill. I don’t have a direct download link for the album but you can dowload  the ZZK Vol. 7 mixtape instead. It’s basically all King Coya cuts and mashups. Drink some yerba mate while you’re listening.