Only three more months until Incubate 2010. For the past few months we’ve been announcing new artists every week. But with 200 + artists coming up in September we can imagine you losing your hold. That’s why we compiled the Incubate 2010 Spotify playlist (http://incu.at/spotify). Subscribing to this playlist will get you acquainted with most of the Incubate 2010 bands.
Apart from their music, part of the getting-to-know-them-better-proces will also be us asking some of the artists a few questions in the upcoming months. The twenty-seventh edition in a series:
1.Can you please introduce yourself?
My name is Saca La Mois DJ!!, which is friendly Mexican slang for “Hey DJ spin the dopest tunes or else…!”. But I’m just a fragment within the Cumbia Cosmonauts constellation. My collaborator Soup can build a spaceship using things found in every household, whilst I’m the astronomer drawing charts for unmapped territories with crayons. As a duo of producers we try to assemble the strongest possible team for each crazy expedition into the outer reaches of space, cumbia and dancefloors. Musically we are very inspired by classic Colombian roots cumbia, Jamaican dub pioneers, the universe of Uwe Schmidt, mutant Mexican tribal club and electronic cumbia, Peruvian psychedelic chicha funk, and the digital-folk experimentation coming out of Argentina.
2.Where are you at the moment?
I’d like to say orbiting somewhere in outer Latin America, but actually I’m with a heater turned-up in my bedroom studio in inner-city Melbourne, Australia. The tropics are kept safe and hygienic in a glass house in the Royal Botanical Gardens somewhere. Downloading the latest songs off the cumbia maquiladora production lines in the tax free zones on the U.S.-Mexico border, all the way to the base cumbia straight from the clandestine jungle laboratories of the Amazon. With a psychedelic attitude and a donkey’s focus you can be anywhere and do anything: such as being a cumbia DJ and producer. 3.Have you played in the Netherlands before and if so, what’s your view on or experience with the scene you’re operating in in The Netherlands?
I had never heard of this festival before, but in 2009 Vince Koreman invited me to play and I thought: why not? I always wanted to visit the country of Dick El Demasiado (who has been an inspiration for me) and Sonido Del Principe. So the night before this gig we ate Indonesian and got quite drunk on Belgian beers, and met artists and curators that made a great impression. The next morning – with a hangover – we drove to this festival called Lowlands. I remember escaping the crowds into a big circus tent with jokes in Dutch I couldn’t understand. There was a mobile dancehall DJ-rig. I remember drinking lots of mate tea and eating noodles with The Peronists. Then us checking out the beginning of the sets by 2 Many DJs and Faith No More then rushing back to play at our stage…it was like the shoot-out scene in High Noon but without any pistoleros, or nervous spectactors. Not even a horse. Completely deserted. The Prodigy had just started playing on another stage. So to make myself and the Peronists happy I started DJing slow psychedelic Mexican productions mixed with unmastered Cumbia Cosmonauts’ beats and the crowd built up and up and my first Netherlands gig felt like turning a desert into a sweltering jungle. The Peronists almost forgot to play there were so many beautiful blonde girls he thought a mate overdose had teleported him to cumbia heaven. My other Netherlands’ gig was for a private party in Rotterdam with really cool architects (mainly), it started with Caipirinhas and Bossa Nova, but by 5am we were drinking straight tequila and listening to Mexican Nortenas and Rancheras…Can’t wait to play with the whole Cumbia Cosmonauts sound system this summer! We operate in all the scenes! Hold on to your mules!
4.What can we expect of your gig at the Incubate Festival?
Smiles and dancefloors. Donkeys dubbing out lasers. Spacecraft filled with yummy sweet things to eat, not dogs who respond to the name Laika. Plenty of brass and percussion. We also have visuals. Oh yeah, we will also have heaps of limited edition communist merchandise for sale, so bring all your cash to contribute to the greater good. Spray-paint your cowboy hat. Bring any instruments to improvise along with us, such as a toothbrush. Don’t worry we can lend you one of ours if you forget.
5.What are your plans for the (near) future?
Keep travelling with cumbia, and letting cumbia travel with us. We are currently working on releasing an eternal stream of songs that plug straight into your brain. But before that technology becomes available for the wider market, it would be nice to have something released on vinyl, CD or even cassette tape. For now you can just keep downloading all our music for free all over the place which is fun but not a great plan for our future. But hopefully the right people hear the music and books us for gigs all over the world. Next year the plan is to travel to the Americas where it all began!
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