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.
With an incipient career and only one released album, many artists are coming out in the desired show business universe:
those who can get a high position in charts and appear on radios and music video channels without leaving behind their own —more or less— avant-garde aesthetic. Short careers but with a big future.
Flowmi picked five artists to watch, discover and, maybe, become a fan of.
"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.
Used to write music criticisms, Pitchfork's staff decided to pick the 500 best songs of the past three decades and compiled them into The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present, a book featuring all-new essays and reviews written with a sharp wit that also present a new paradigm. What songs? Check out lala.com playlist.
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.
Eclectic, sophisticated and with an audience from all over the world. A new generation of musicians born in Latin America that insists in exploring their culture with a contemporary view that includes remixing as a post-modern attitude, and professional application of new technology and trends. Reggae, cumbia, rap, house, funky, dub, cha cha cha and electronic sounds are fused in their productions. Check them out.