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Merengue: Dominican Music And Identity

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2008-06-15 16:00:00 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...merengue you'll know it can go at quite a clip -- it's the adrenalin rush of the Latin dance world. But musically, culturally and politically merengue has a fascinating history Today on Inside The Music you can hear a show about just that, called Merengue: Dominican Music And Identity . It's the second of three episodes from the Public Radio...
 
 
 
 
 
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Merengue: Amarfis, Oro Solido

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2008-07-12 16:54:01 by Chapín in La Onda Tropical - Latin Music Mp3 Blog
 
...merengue tracks, to keep that summer spirit up Amarfis and his Banda de Attake are always a guarantee for fast-paced hip-shaking merengue. Okay, maybe the lyrics are no literary masterpiece, but as long as you're sweating on the dancefloor you won't even hear that. "Full De To" is vintage Amarfis, a piano arpeggio that's impossible to...
 
 
 
 
 
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Merengue: Elvis Crespo, La Banda Gorda

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2007-11-05 12:55:00 by Chapín in La Onda Tropical - Latin Music Mp3 Blog
...merengues to keep the summer spirit alive when the fall kicks in Lloré y Lloré" is a quite atypical merengue for Elvis Crespo , with the fast singing and the soundplay in the chorus. Though of course you'll recognize his voice and the somewhat sluggish beat. An interesting track, even though it's not being played as much on the radio as it...
 
 
 
 
 
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Studio Sessions with Merengue Star

2008-02-19 14:48:01 by Editor in News
 
...merengue superstar Melina León recently made her way to peermusic studios in Miami for a writing session with Sony BMG Columbian rocker Alicastro ("Uno Nunca Sabe," "Libre," "Universo Sin Explicacion), for her upcoming album Her 1997 debut, Mujeres Liberadas, was followed by 1998s Con Los Pies Sobre La Tierra, which led her to ascend the...
 
 
 
 
 
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links for 2008-02-08

2008-02-08 20:33:14 by wayneandwax in wayneandwax.com
 
...merengue de la calle tags: merengue DR blogpost Merengue de Calle AKA Mambo: The Sound of the Dominican Underground GAY SOVIET TRON YALL on merengue de calle, aka street merengue: The tracks are stripped-down merengue rhythms (most sound right off a Casios Latin presets), with high tempos, dirty rapped lyrics, and an occasional reggaeton...
 
 
 
 
 
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Festival Report: Antilliaanse Feesten Day 1

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2008-08-13 16:48:44 by Chapín in La Onda Tropical - Latin Music Mp3 Blog
...merengue) with clever lyrics and an incredibly positive attitude - they just wanna have fun. Only when the guitars were cranked up, things got a little too loud and hyperactive for me Over at the main stage, Dominican merengue star Chichi Peralta kept us waiting for a while with a strange and totally unsuitable apocalyptic video - not the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Back on Track: Tropical

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2008-02-26 23:11:00 by Chapín in La Onda Tropical - Latin Music Mp3 Blog
 
...merengue and bachata since 1978, and brothers Rafa & Luís Rosario are responsible for many tropical hits throughout the last decades. In fact their album Insuperable (1992) is part of the Holy Trinity that introduced me to latin music at the age of 8 - thanks dad ;) (The other two are Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan and Bachata Rosa by Juan Luis...
 
 
 
 
 
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En La Misma Onda

2008-06-24 12:34:10 by Chapín in La Onda Tropical - Latin Music Mp3 Blog
 
...Merengue category this year), Regional Mexican and Flamenco & Latin Jazz And to prove that there's still loads of quality merengue out there, even without a Grammy category, CorrienteLatina has an excellent merengue mixtape with tracks of Dominican bands Oro Sólido, Coco Band, Josie Esteban and La Mákina Masala has an excellent half hour...
 
 
 
 
 
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Doblando pa la Izquierda

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2008-07-01 18:31:47 by wayneandwax in wayneandwax.com
...merengue, new-wave postpunkish & whoknows whatelse. Raquel says she gets a kick out of their weaving in of merengue and gagá and their hillarious/cryptic lyrics. Me too! But while I definitely hear the merengue, Im not too familiar with gagá, so I cant pick that out as much (despite having done a little YouTubing for clues), though I do...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Rough Guide To Latin Street Party

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2008-08-24 09:18:01 by ARomero in World Music Central
...merengue, bachata, cumbia, reggaetón, Latin soul, and all points in between In a rum-fuelled' recording session at Candela Studios in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2005, international DJ/producer/musicans Quantic and Nickodemus wanted to make a tune that combined house and Latin, breakbeat and jazz, with a tempo that sped up from 95bpm to about...