This Thursday May 14th, I’m so looking forward to playing #RemezclaPERREO, at the second installment of their monthly party at the Studio at House Party, Webster Hall. Expect indulgences in dembow, reggaeton, and perreo soundscapes alongside residents Nina Sky and False Witness, hosted by Hot 97’s Laura Stylez.

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False Witness is an affiliate of Lit City Trax and member of KUNQ, a collective of artists fostering forwards-thinking, queer-oriented art. He makes what he calls island industrial music, mixing the rhythms of caribbean and latin music with the power of the underground rave.

https://soundcloud.com/dismagazine/false-witness-realidad-bodega/

He’ll be performing at the Que Bajo Barrioteca Tropical May 9th at Verboten in Brooklyn. Get your tickets here: http://nyc.redbullmusicacademy.com/que-bajo-barrioteca-tropical

Papi Juice throws the most poppin underground tropical queer party in Brooklyn and DJs Oscar Nñ and Adam R. have been touring around the country building bridges and expanding intentional spaces for QTPOC to party together. They play banging global club music and they’ll be performing at the Que Bajo Barrioteca Tropical May 9th at Verboten in Brooklyn.

Get your tickets at http://nyc.redbullmusicacademy.com/que-bajo-barrioteca-tropical

Happy Colors is a Dominican DJ who is a leader among the new generation of latin electronic producers who work across genre boundaries. He embodies the Barrioteca concept bringing together different regional styles and EDM sounds for a modern globalized club community.

Happy Colors will be performing at the Que Bajo Barrioteca Tropical May 9th at Verboten in Brooklyn. Get your tickets at http://nyc.redbullmusicacademy.com/que-bajo-barrioteca-tropical

DJ Guaguis is Ali Gua Gua, the lead singer of the Kumbia Queers a powerful punk cumbia band out of Argentina and Mexico. With Kumbia Queers she as been spreading a unique brand of cumbia villera and sonidera sounds with a strong political message to new audiences across Europe and the Americas for years. As DJ Guaguis, she brings her Jarocho roots and globe trotting experience to the turntables.

She’ll be performing at the Que Bajo Barrioteca Tropical May 9th at Verboten in Brooklyn. Get your tickets at http://nyc.redbullmusicacademy.com/que-bajo-barrioteca-tropical

Pablito Mix is the pioneer of Mexico City’s new cumbiatón genre combining the long tradition of Mexico’s cumbia sonidera culture with the invading forces of reggaeton and dembow.

He is a among the most important DJs of Mexico City’s urban music scene, and he’ll be performing at the Que Bajo Barrioteca Tropical May 9th at Verboten in Brooklyn.

Get your pre-sale tickets now at http://nyc.redbullmusicacademy.com/que-bajo-barrioteca-tropical

Erick Rincon led the Tribal Guarachero movement from the underground clubs of Monterrey as a teenager before breaking the genre into mainstream radio with his crew 3ball MTY in 2011 with the smash hit ‘Intentalo’.

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He’s just old enough be allowed in the club here in NY but he’s playing to massive crowds all over the world and he’ll be performing at the Que Bajo Barrioteca Tropical May 9th at Verboten in Brooklyn. Get your tickets here: http://nyc.redbullmusicacademy.com/que-bajo-barrioteca-tropical

 

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This Wednesday, April 29th at our Dutty Artz Keeps Changing the Mood party at the Knitting Factory, we’ve got DJ Ripley stepping up to the decks to deliver her signature style: using music to celebrate people’s experiences across race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, highlighting the beauty of interconnecting global stories and rocking them into your body on the dance floor.

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