Everybody who has followed Latino Resiste knows we have been at the forefront of the digital cumbia game since 2005.

So, it is no surprise we keep dropping newer ways to approach the genre, and since there is a vital new fron of cumbia-corridos coming from Mexico, we believe it becomes imperative to counter-balance it with less pop centered feelings.

Caballo presents STREET CUMBIA which is not just a remix album; it is about looking outward, expanding the pool of collaborators, and dropping rappers with different POVs to reimagine their addition to the ever-expanding cumbia diaspora. Whether it is ICE CUBE, Dr Dre, Snoop Dog, Tego Calderon, Drake or Bad Bunny, to more obscure rappers like Ragga Twins, or completely original tracks like People wanna look at me.

STREET CUMBIA trains that focus squarely on Latin America sounds, drawing artists from across the “so-called gangsta game”. The musicians featured here live on the cutting edge while flirting with the mainstream—with one notable exception of course, QUANTIC who is a king in the underground scene.

STREET CUMBIA tries to put some of the more exciting cumbia bass beats which keep working in the margins, but it doesn’t really work as a coherent album. With wildly different sounds, the sequence doesn’t need to follow a cohesive pattern. it’s as if one attempted to reassemble a puzzle in the same way, even after all the pieces changed shape. Since the only connective tissue outside of the original material is the amorphous “CUMBIA” category—a commerce-driven catch-all that places often disparate genres under the same umbrella—that inconsistency is somewhat inevitable.

CABALLO presents STREET CUMBIA is available on our BANDCAMP