Juan Camilo

Bailando En El Obrero

Genre: FOLK / ROOTS, JAZZ / FUSION

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Tom Boogz’ aka Rat Heart invites his pal Juan Camilo for a heavy trip into El Obrero, one of the most emblematic neighbourhoods of the capital of southwestern Colombia’s Valle del Cauca, with a handpicked selection of dripping bangers highlighting the more aggressive styles of salsa heard on the steets of Cali by night.

For 90 minutes Camilo offers a hot and horny taste of the neighbourhood where salsa rhythms from the Antilles took root in Cali, the capital of the Valle del Cauca region, and Colombia’s 3rd largest metropolis after Bogotá and Medellín. Also known as Santiago de Cali, the city is renowned as the “Salsa Capital” due its enduring passion for Hispanic Caribbean culture; a syncretised blend of complex Cuban rhythms, spiced with jazz, cha-chá, Son montuno (we could go on), that emerged a about a century ago and has since became shorthand for properly sexy Afro-Latin music.

Nowhere has salsa taken hold more than the Barrio Obrero, becoming deeply entwined with the neighbourhood’s 100 year old history, where it is a living, breathing culture practiced in bars and on the streets, most nights. Frankly, anyone with a fruity, funky bone in their body will get fully snagged on Camilo’s deep selections right here. Top to tail he shells bags of the kinkiest big band arrangements, with fly singers leading the catchiest call-and-response commands over rippling congas and blazing horn sections intent on oscillating hips and firing up yr bits.

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