mp3: MARCELO FABIAN & RAYVON no gun en la villa (oro11 remix)
mp3: CRIME MOB stilletos (pumps) (oro11 remix)
more argentinean flavours from buenos aries resident, oro11 – aka gavin burnett (above right, with compadre yao!, left). formerly from san fracisco, oro11 apparently filled most of his pre-argentinean sets with hip hop, reggae and dancehall, but after this move to the country in 2004 and a crash course in cumbia, that sound began to dominate. areas such as san telmo and palermo are cited as hot spots of this emerging fusion of cumbia with electro production, dancehall and reggaeton.
the above remixes by oro11 typify this genre-clash: the marcelo fabian & rayvon rmx is a straight up party-starter dancehall / cumbia mash, however the crime mob mix ups the ante by adding a dash of panjabi mc‘s ‘mundian to bach ke’ and dhol drums into the pot. you’ll need more than stilettos to dance to that one. more info at murdochspace/oro11 as well as the bilingual portal, whatsupbuenosaires.com.