Chico Mann Related

Young_Phonics

Who rides for this dude and his band?!?!!? Caught him by chance last night in Frisco and that shit was DOPE. The evening was kind of strange in of itself, I went out to some spots to promote, shake babies, kiss hands etc and the spot across the way was having dude and his band. I walked in with my homie and I end up picking up a 12'' single on the strength. I turn and I start talking to this merch cat and it was Ticklah. If you don't know, dude has been killing it on the keys on a lot of records I own for a lot of different bands, I was genuinely glad to meet him and give him props.Then Chico does his thing. Now, I've been hearing about him but I had really no idea how his shit sounds. Honestly, it's exactly what I've been waiting for: a latino dude doing real deal latin music but with this type of contemporary knock. It was part Prince part Willie Colon, drum machines meets timbales. So in the midst of enjoying their show, this dude mentioned "yeah that's Vinia Mojica singin'". I was "WTF??!!", maybe it was the drinks I had but again I was a little in awe of casually meeting random artistes I actually give a fuck about. She's mad cute to boot.Anyways, that was my evening sorry for the rambling but that shit was great on a lot of different levels. I think they might be doing another show and I'mma go again with my lady.

UnconSci

Yea he just played afrofunke and I missed it. I heard he has like the pimped out synth orchestra.

jimey

i really like his album

mannybolone

I caught them at the Echoplex this past weekend, right before they went up north.

I can't say it was my bag - Afro funk meets electro isn't really my steez but I could see it going over well with, say, the KCRW crowd (that's not a diss).

I was totally feeling Boogaloo Assassins (who were on the same bill) but any Latin band that specializes in boogaloos is likely to appeal to me, regardless.

Snagglepus

I dig the record.

PATX

I've been going on about these guys for a while in the Announcements section and on here. They play in NJ & BK quite a bit, at my place, Black Betty, BPM. Really good live show where people dance and have fun (raer in NYC). The beats are banging.

Young_Phonics

I can't say it was my bag - Afro funk meets electro isn't really my steez

DO YOU POARTY?

PATX

Oh yeah, Chico Mann is the band... leader is Marcos from Antibalas and Ocote Soul Sounds.

captainplanet

Marcos is the shit. The first album was cool, but wait til you hear the new one that will be dropping (hopefully before too long!) BACKUP VOCALS BY VINIA MOJICA!



I had Marcos on my radio show a couple months back. You can peep the show (interview interspersed with tunes he selected including new joints off the upcoming record) DOWNLOAD HERE[/b].

Or stream it on this page (the show is called "Passport" and you just click on the lil icon that looks like audio waves I guess? it's a bad icon)

also, a week before that, Victor (aka Ticklah) came on the show talking bout his album and antibalas and other stuff, you can hear that show HERE[/b].

Young_Phonics

thanks, bumping the 12'' I got last night.

BTW: Did you do a Erykah Badu remix? Monk sent me the e-mail linkythingamadoodad

prof_rockwell

I end up picking up a 12'' single on the strength.

was that the two tracker w/ remixes? I got that one and love it

Young_Phonics

"Who You Runnin' From" Quantic Remix b/w Soul Freedom Remix

prof_rockwell

"Who You Runnin' From" Quantic Remix b/w Soul Freedom Remix

that's the one

captainplanet

thanks, bumping the 12'' I got last night.

BTW: Did you do a Erykah Badu remix? Monk sent me the e-mail linkythingamadoodad

yeah, 2 badu rmxs. gonna be a nice lil 12" alongside monk's dubby version - BSTRD BOOTS, coming soon.

need to cop the quantic remix, haven't heard that yet.

bonzaisk8

yeah, chico mann's sound is definitely refreshing. he did a dope remix of one of DRM's tracks from Bastard Jazz that i'm co-producing. going to be a solid release imo.


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