Songs about hawkers

There's probably no surprise to the idea that people who sell stuff on the streets of the Latin America are something common. I personally find it interesting how hawkers, peddlers, or however you want to call 'em are big parts of Latino culture, and so, it is interesting hearing songs about them in popular styles of music from several countries. So far I found songs from Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, and Paraguay, but I'm sure that if I dug a bit deeper I'd be able to find references to them in songs of just about every Hispanophone country. So, without further ado:

Oscar Padilla - El Tamalero (from Mexico)



Pedrito Altamiranda - El Buhonero (Panama)



Banda MS - Cacahuates Pistaches (Mexico)



Juana Fé - Callejero (Chile)



Radio Rochela - Adiós Buhonero (Venezuela)


(this last one reminds me of Saturday Night Live with its air of parody).

2010 Music Competition!

Towards the end of last year, I signed up to Boyinaband, some sort of magical place where you can find resources and tutorials and stuff on electronic music, and jokes. It just happened that there was a competition going on, courtesy of this guy here, so I decided to give it my best shot (although I only had 5 days left), so I began working on a track and although I didn't think it would win, it was all done with having fun in mind. Anyway, this was my entry:

Badunka Funk by SkinsVideos21

Perhaps I shouldn't have gone wild with the entry and experimental but I was just having so much fun putting a dembow here, a 2-step drum & bass beat here, some chopped-up royalty-free funk samples there and a goddamn wobble bass smack in the middle and again after. And a hip hop interlude too. People who read this might be aware that I'm interested in merging d&b with more Latino rhythms (something that will show up in a future track too).

Anyway, I didn't win and it's okay. It was fun. I think the winners totally deserved their places and mentions, so here are the rest of the contestants (last three are the winners, leaving the best tracks for last (not saying the first ones are the worst though)).

(whoops, Sirena by Medik has dissapeared D:)

Alarm Bell by petermennitirecords

Srsly by vyryl

Black Magic by Archdemon XIII

Classology by Biastate

Transformers by ShokeyPokey

Srsly (BIAB Competition) by vyryl

Outer Space by Vikt0r

There are a few entries that received honourable mentions, like the gosh darn funky

Timothy Law Snider - Uncle Wiggly (there's a small playlist there but no way to embed the song)

and..
Toxic Energy - Blast by Toxic Energy

and also...
CHNK - Trance Chug (I couldn't find it anywhere... oh well)

Now, the finalists:

In third place, is this clever guy here who won't let me embed his :(
JKR ft. Bettina Reuterberg - Revolve

In second place, we have...

Jz - Rated 17 - Boyinaband Forum by Jz.

And the winner of the BoyinaBand competition is...

Backlash (V.2.0) by Mizuki's Last Chance

A banger I say!

It seems that the winners will get their tracks on a release by Housefly Records, that will be nice. Also, there's this double release with dubstep and drum & bass that was linked in BiaB, but I'm not sure why. It looks good though.