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Quantic and Frente Cumbiero Unite To Rescue Cumbia

by Juan Data

http://music.remezcla.com/2012/latin/quantic-and-frente-cumbiero-unite-to-rescue-cumbia/

After five years of becoming slowly submerged in Colombian musical culture, learning the accordion, setting up a band and a studio, and scouring the country in search it’s recorded legacy, Will ‘Quantic’ Holland (Quantic Soul Orchestra & Quantic y su Combo Barbaro) has compiled the fruits of his labour into this unique compilation that tells the story of cumbia in the years of the phonograph record’s supremacy. Along with good friend and head of Soundway Records, Miles Cletet, Will Holland has condensed hundreds of 78s, 45s and LPs into just over two and a half hours of the finest Colombian cumbia. (via Various Artists - The Original Sound of Cumbia: The History of Colombian Cumbia & Porro As Told By The Phonograph 1948 - 79 (PART 1) :: Soundway Records)

“Cumbia hasn’t suddenly become hip; cumbia was always hip.” (via Cumbia: A Latin Genre Percolating Once More | MTV Hive)