Bomba Estereo: Electro Vacilon from Colombia to the world

Hi All,

This is a very short non-travel-related post just to share with you this superb Colombian band I was just introduced to!  I was in Buenos Aires with my boyfriend last week and we were invited to have a couple - a little more actually, to be honest - of exquisit Mendoza wine bottles at a friend of his' house. It happens that this friend - a Belgian living between Argentina, Europe, Hong Kong, Mexico and Argentina - is a huge music connoisseur who organizes raves and big parties all over the world as well as a well known electronic music producer.

When I told him I was from Colombia, he told me "wait one sec", he connected his laptop to the massive LCD TV hanging on the wall and said : "This is, hands down, the best new band I have listened to last year".

I have to admit I had never heard of Bomba Estereo, but they sound rrrreaaaallly well , their music is a mixture of Afro-Caribbean rhythms with electro and styles like reggae, dub and hip hop that they define as "Electro Vacilon", and that night, they also got me to be a little prouder of being Colombian :).

People, I give you FUEGO!!!



Abrazos,

Marcela - Colombia Travel Blog

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