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Los de Abajo | Cybertropic Chilango Power
Mexican mix of party music and the struggle of life.
CD, Luaka Bop/Virgin
Tekst: Dave Roozendaal
Publicatiedatum: 16 maart 2002
From the band's biography:
Chilango (n.) - chee LONGO - Hispanics - Specifically Mexico City inhabitants. People from Mexico's provinces use it as an insult denoting a lazy, tricky, cheating person from the big city. Seen on bumper stickers: "Haz Patria, Mata Un Chilango" (Make Mexico great, kill a Chilango).
Nothing nicer than a musical surprise on a rainy day. Those From Below, as is the translation of this Mexican band's name, provided one to yours truly. A whirlwind of salsa, punk, cumbia, hip hop, ska, and mariachi music, it's party-hardy all night long with this brilliant second album on David Byrne's Luaka Bop. But of course, it's not all sunshine and laughter if you listen to the (Spanish, but translated to English in the CD booklet) lyrics. Los de Abajo are supporters of the Zapatista movement of Subcomandante Marcos, and through their music they try to make the world aware of the nasty situation many Mexicans, if not people worldwide, are in. The struggle of life in the incredibly large and crowded Mexico DF (Mexico City), the oppression by corrupt governments that has been going on for decades, and, of course, the ongoing discrimination against indigenous people of the country: It's all real, and Los de Abajo sing about it. The connoisseurs now see that there are several parallels with bands like fellow-Mexicans Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio, and of course Mano Negra, and they're right. But Los de Abajo mostly sound like Los de Abajo: groovy, exciting, caliente!
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/los-de-abajo/cybertropic-chilango-power/1402/
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