Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia
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Welcome to Colombia Calling – I’m Emily Hart and today I’m talking to ZZK, one of the top music labels in the world for latino electronica, digital and experimental cumbia, and rainforest electro. From a Wednesday Night party in Buenos Aires to a global record label, ZZK are now celebrating 15 years working in the business.
The now-huge digital cumbia scene was incubated in large part due to ZZK’s parties and label, which exploded into a community of artists whose experiments with blending unlikely sounds and styles have continued ever since, bringing cumbia from Colombia, through the barrios of Argentina, through an experimental digital wave – now to a phenomenon which plays worldwide.
I’ve got two of ZZK’s co-founders in the studio, as well as the lead of new Colombian signing and Bogotá phenomenon Los Cotopla Boys - We’ll be talking parties, rhythms, and the experimental scene in Colombia – as well as reggaeton, K-Pop, and how to survive as an indie record label.
At the end of the show, I’ll also be giving you guys an exclusive listen to a brand new track by ZZK artist Montoya.
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500: Fernando Montaño: Colombia's Billy Elliot
499: A Review of Colombia's Politics in 2023
498: Birdwatching for Peace
497: Unseen Universe – Exploring Colombia’s Sonic Worlds via the Humboldt Institute’s Natural Sound Collection
496: On the Migrant Trail in Capurgana
495: Inside the NarcoFiles
494: A (Very) Long Time Ago
493: Tales from a FARC combatant: A lost Colombian childhood
492: Made of Space Dust
491: LaWayra: Authentic Ancestral Medicine Retreat in Colombia
490: Better than Cocaine: Learning to grow coffee, and live, in Colombia
489: A Day in the Life of a Bogotá City Councillor
488: Colombia, the Country of Beauty
487: Capturing the Traffickers in Colombia
486: Local Elections in Colombia 2023: A Referendum on Petro's Government
485: The Mennonite colony in Colombia
484: The Names We Forgot
483: The Canal del Dique, Silent Witness to the Colombian Conflict
482: Sebastian Ospina: A Colombian who flies for Britain
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