Revolution Radio

Mexican Dubwiser – Revolution Radio
Reviewed by Sadie O., 4/25/13
Future Cumbia! Mexican Dubwiser is a DJ originally from Monterrey Mexico, now working with partial to full band and an amazing array of the coolest Mexican pop/hip hop and Reggae vocalists – as well as Billy Gould of Faith No More (Koolarrow is his record label). Cumbia (albeit dubbed up and electronified) is the predominant element, but there’s a huge array of dub/future dub and other elements. Some amazing sounds.
1. 1:57 *electronic chimes, and echo-laden spoken word intro, leading into fuzzy, slow, electronic cumbia, with a bit of dub vocals and swingy syncopation.
2. 4:30 FCC – “shit” X 2. ** a bit of spoken word, then slow cumbia with traditional accordion and dub bits, female hip hop vocals.
3. 4:24 ****acoustic guitar, electronic beeples, very deep bluesy singing, bit of Latin tinge in the percussion, bass by Billy Gould.
4. 3:26 ***spoken word intro in Spanish, processed accordion, rather uptempo dubbed up electronic cumbia. Very processed and dubby.
5. 4:00 ***bippity boppity electronic bop, Reggae vocals. A bit of Reggae in the riddim, too. Nice. And the lyrics are great for radio!
6. 3:41 **almost an accordion loop, grunty electronics, upbeat cumbia, female hip hop vocals.
7. 3:32 ***very uptempo Latin bounce with lots of woobles, sweet male hip hop vocals in Spanish, female hip hop vocals mostly in English.
8. 4:07 ***Atari bweebles and groovy little electronic bop, then midtempo cumbia, very pretty but with odd bits and lots of dub. One of these noises I want to take home and keep as a pet.
9. 3:28 ****downtempo lopsided electronic something – a bit cumbia, a bit just gnarly, processed vocals in Spanish, big drums.
10. 2:39 ***vocal snippets, grunty electronics, quavery processed accordion, some kinda cross between junglism and cumbia.
11. 3:17 ***big electronic noise, then downtempo 4/4 thump with Latin Percussion overlay. Sung and whispered vocals.
12. 3:48 ****cute plinkies, then downtempo fuzzy mariachi with very goofy vocals. Love this!
13. 4:21 ****odd boppity march, wonderful deep vocals (same singer as track 3). Fades out briefly, comes back w/ mellow bop, kiddie vocals.