Cumbia sonidera

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1 Cumbia sonidera
2 Generality of cumbia sonidera
3 Components
- 3.1 Musical
- 3.2 Electronics
4 The most popular "Sonidos" and Cumbia
5 References

[edit] Cumbia sonidera

Cumbia sonidera is a variant of popular cumbia in Mexico and comes from the original cumbia of Colombia, is the combination of Colombian cumbia, adapted and recorded by Mexican groups (Mexican cumbia) mixing with the sounds and electronic effects own of the DJ's with modification of tones of voices and speed of reproduction extracted from magnetic medias or digital medias of sonideros in Mexico City and other cities into the republic, it classifies like a recent variant of mexican cumbia.

[edit] Generality of cumbia sonidera

Cumbia sonidera rescues the form to make Colombian cumbia with accordion and between its variants is the one to use effects of Keyboard Synthesizers to accentuate the sound of a DJ, reason why it gives like result a fusion between cumbia of the 50's, 60's and 70's with the electronic sounds of the DJ of half-full of 90's.

Cumbia sonidera has an own ramification, and arises at the same time in the year 1993 of parallel way to the Mexican Andean Cumbia and until 1995, it is where it is begun to extend his popularity, the Cumbia Sonidera began to be internationally popular between the years of 1996 and 2000.

[edit] Components

[edit] Musical

The new sound of cumbia sonidera is unique, identificable, its melodic organ and guacharaca like the old tropical cumbia groups of 70's, evoking to the old Colombian "tamboras" with classic instruments like conga, (or called timbal), a Mexican cumbia contribution ^[1], keyboard (a derivation of the Cumbia Rock of Rigo Tovar), harp (retaken of the cumbia costeña of states of the Southeastern of Mexico), electrical guitar (derived from the used ones in the beginning of the Mexican Cumbia by Mike Laure and Xavier Passos), Keyboard Synthesizers (derivation of Cumbia-Rock of principle of 70's), drums, sax (folclore of the east, north and Southeastern of Mexico), güiro and trumpets (a contribution from Mexico to the Cumbia as heritage of Cuba's sounds) and the accordion (folclore's instrument in "Musica norteña" ,northern music) of Mexico that was also used by Colombia in its cumbia originally). The Cumbia Sonidera is more instrumental and with little lirycs in some cases.

[edit] Electronics

Another particular characteristic is the deformation of voices in the musical narrations that it belongs to the executions of the sonideros DJ or, applying effects of delay and pitch (called thus in software) in the reproduction of voices, this deformation begun decades back with old equipment of sound of several brands, one of the most used were the Radson Brand of Mexico, Majestic between others, used "trompetas" (conical loudspeakers) between many others types of amplifiers and mixers, "bounces", LP players, equalizers, derivative of this, many songs recorded in LP that had the DJ were in cumbión base (music with the double of speed of rhythm of cumbia traditional Colombian), it was necessary to adapt them at the particular speed of the Mexican to dance, that is slower, so the speed of reproduction is lower, to obtain musical tones and voice lower at least one eighth musical scale, reason why the sounds were of more low tones, to avoid discrepancy in the DJ voice, that is used to speaking and sending greetings while music is executed, forces to speak with more bass voice, this phenomenon has stayed per years, and although each DJ has their method of musicalización all have this common denominator, therefore, strictly speaking, the sounds of voices of the cumbia sonidera wasn't arise properly from the musical groups of cumbia, only by DJ' s that somehow imposed like combined voice and music cumbia and more effects in the events, modifications done on the LP and CD of cumbia from Mexico and Southamerica.

Years later gradually, the cumbia groups making an emulation in his recordings of all these effects from DJ that already had popularized the "sonideros" (DJ), and that, combined to the instrumental components mentioned before, evolved and they were conjugated in which now it is known like cumbia sonidera formally, that without a doubt would properly make one more a more formal presence in the record market of these tendencies not created by cumbia groups, only by the DJ; therefore it begins, gradually, the gestation of cumbia sonidera already like musical genre properly.

This genre is popular in central Mexico and USA, which genre stems from the word "sonido" (sound) or the word to describe DJs that spin popular club music and cumbia at parties or bailes. Sonidero music has gained immense popularity in large part because of the mobility of the sonidos and the willingness of DJs to give out dedications to peoples barrios(neighborhoods) or Bandas. DJs also manipulate the cumbias by slowing or speeding them up, creating what are called "mega cumbia mixes", and adding their own intros and outros to their presentations. The DJs will also include sets of Mexican heavy metal, salsa, and other popular music.

[edit] The most popular "Sonidos" and Cumbia

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The most noticed "sonidos" would be Sonido Condor, Sonido Fantasma C.J., Sonido La Conga Pedro Perea Mix.

In New York: Sonido Renegado Sonido Potencia Latina
Sonido Magia
Sonido Libertad
Sonido Arcoiris Sonido Casanova de Ricardo y Marcos
Sonido Kumbala
Sonido Potencia Latina
Sonido La Conga
Sonido Caluda
Sonido MisterRobot
Sonido Dimension X
Sonido La Rumba "Luis Agel"
Sonido MisterZamba
Sonido Super Chango
Sonido La ondA - known through MySpace, http://www.myspace.com/sonidolaonda9

In Chicago:
Sonido Caney
Sonido Senorial
Sonido Arcania
Sonido Nueva Generacion

In Texas:
Sonido Kumbala de Benjamin Perez

Los Angeles:
Sonido Fantasma T&D

The cumbia sonidera also consists of similar instrumental elements (guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, drums, congas, and guiro.) This music also has elements of son, guaracha, rumba, and salsa. The sounds of Colombian groups like La Internacional Sonora Show, Sonora Dinamita, and Aniceto Molina can be heard in Mexican acts like Fito Olivares y La Pura Sabrosura, Los Chicos Del Barrio, and Los Angeles Azules. Cumbia sonidera and cumbia villera share similar influences, particularly in the use of keyboards and synthesizers. Songs such as "El Paso del Gigante" by Grupo Soñador, "Gritaria" by Los Telez, "Brother Loui" by Cumbia Sonicos, "Promesas de Amor" by Los Chavos JG, "Me Desespero Por Ti" by Grupo Pesadilla, "La Cumbia De Las Corcholatas" by Los Deakino, and "Cumbia Chinantla" by Los Daddys