Chancha Via Circuito - Bienaventuranza (Black Vinyl) Experimental Music diligent audio archivist Andy Zax

diligent audio archivist Andy Zax came across a copy of the master tape while going through the massive Rod McKuen archive

Kevin Saunderson and Inner City

Gang of Four was formed in Leeds in 1976 and pioneered a style of music that inverted punk’s blunt and explosive energies — favoring tense rhythms

in which whispers of bygone technology permeate a pastoral dystopia

It was recorded mostly at the remote Sonic Ranch studios in West Texas

Chancha Via Circuito - Bienaventuranza (Black Vinyl) Experimental Music diligent audio archivist Andy ZaxFor the last decade, Argentina has become the epicenter of a musical explosion that characteristically blends folk music from the surrounding Andes and electronic beats. The artist arguably responsible for its emergence on a global platform is one named Chancha Via Circuito a Buenos Aires native named Pedro Canale whose first album Rodante (2008) opened the floodgates by pushing the borders of Cumbia listeners weren't even aware existed. He's gone on