From Córdoba, Rafael Caivano and Lisandro Soma present their project Frikstailers: using electronic music as a base, the duo combines different sounds and vocals as if it were a game to make people move on the dancefloor. Thanks to their ability, they have toured around the US and Europe. In this week's Top 5, they tell us what bands have influenced and motivated them to outline their eclectic musical personality.
"11 y 20" is out. The promotional track is included in Quema, the new album of Bicicletas. The quintet of power rock, pop melodies and psychedelia formed by Julio Cesar Crivelli (Vocals and Guitar), Federico Wiske (Guitar), Agustin Pardo (Bass), Ignacio Valdez (Synthesizers and Guitar) and Mariano Repeto (Drums) will be in Buenos Aires to play at the biggest festivals. Between show and show, Ruki –the bassist– picked 5 albums he would carry everywhere on his iPod. "If I had one, of course," he confess.
As a music curator of NOISE Festival 2008 (the Olympics of Creativity, according to the organizers), the English artist Damon Gough, better known as Badly Drawn Boy, has listened to so many new bands that he is in a position to select the best ones. "I'm just amazed at the amount of people there are making music", he stated after making the following list:
Apart from being the musical curator of his own radio show HipHopMix (broadcasted on Kosiuko Radio) and resident DJ at several Buenos Aires clubs, DJ Stuart also recommends artists. In this new Flowmi's Top 5, he picks the new urban music talents.
In 2003, Catar_sys and Color kit formed Fauna, a
duo of producers and MCs from Mendoza (Argentina) that present their "humble contribution to the dialog between American rhythms and urban music." They have already released their debut album
La Manita de Fauna. Back from their
tour throughout North America, and while they prepare their show to celebrate the second anniversary of Zizek nights, Color kit picked
the essential tracks of a growing hybrid genre.
Katy Perry
did it: after the album of Christian songs she released in 2001 under the moniker Katy Hudson, her track "I Kissed a Girl" became a hit this year and topped the Billboard chart during more than a month. While her voice sounds on every radio station, the soloist reveals what she prefers to listen to along the day.
Without the visual stimulation Carca found in the covers of the albums he bought when he was a child, Tía Newton, his collaboration with Ian Brown and Babasónicos (among others), and his solo project would not exist. Exclusively for Flowmi, this guitar players picks the five album covers that inspired him to create some of his melodies.
To make such eclectic and funny sets as the one he made some weeks ago at Batonga! (a weekly night organized by Zuker, Rama and Fabián Dellamónica), Paul Beller, better known as Ben Mono, is all the time looking for new productions. As a result of his search, he discovered new talented artist he presents exclusively for Flowmi in this Top 5.
Two years ago, Hollywood In Cambodia set up in Buenos Aires, becoming the first street art gallery in the city. Before their event called Gran Barata HIC, to be held on September 13 and 14 in which they will be offering works by artists like Pum Pum, Nasa, Chu and Orilo Blandini, among others, at a price ranging from 50 to 999 Argentine pesos, — the crew formed by Bs.As.Stncl, RunDon'tWalk and Malatesta picked for Flowmi their five street art referents.