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Elliott Sky Case on July 28, 2021
It’s loud, it’s vibrant, it’s picking up speed—it’s CUMBIATRON, the finest cumbia dance party on the West Coast! DJs Don-D, Geronimo Selector, Jalinche and Dog Plasma tour their freaky, funky, untraditional Latin club mixes up and down California, and this night features ESSJ’s own Philthy Dronez. Mr. Philthy is a livewire on…
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Diana San Juan, Vicente Serna, Nick Veronin on May 4, 2017
Mateo Gonzales presses play and the track springs to life. The window on his laptop shows various layers of composition scrolling by. There’s a sample of Bobby Day’s “Rockin’ Robin.” The trilling whistle of the early rockabilly hit leaps from the small computer speakers, as do the more tinny rhythmic elements: the high…
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YEAR-END LISTS typically hew to the comfy round number 10. And although Top 10 has a ring to it, Silicon Valley’s melting pot of musical talent fused genres, collaborated, innovated and turned out so many great LPs and EPs this year that it became a nearly impossible task to narrow it down…
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Matt Gonzales is a busy man. When he’s not playing guitar for local fusion-soul group Anya and the Getdown or for hip-hop cumbia duo Raul y Mexia, he’s producing beats for his own solo Latin dance project, Philthy Dronez.
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