Ultimos Dias Del Am

Zumbido, Radio Zumbido | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 8, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Palm Pictures (Audio
• ASIN: B00006J3Z6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,353 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #39 in Music > Latin Music > Urban > Latin Electronica

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Original Pirate Radio, Lock Down Tu Aereo, October 23, 2002

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punchjimmywalkerinhislips (Boca Raton, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ultimos Dias Del Am (Audio CD)

this is the solo debut from guatemalan Juan Carlos Barrios (ex-Bohemia Suburbana guitarist), who fuses stylin' guitar, bass, and drum structures with traditional latin instruments, occasional electronic flourishes, and fleeting snatches of field recordings for a primarily instrumental winner that feels as simultaneously personal and in-the-world as the album's central AM Radio conceit.

the songs range from rolling-percussion town square fiestas to lonely cries from desert villages (the latter felt most poignantly in the bent-string guitar wail of "livingston buzz"), but all tracks are united by recurring bits of radio dial static--romanticizing the all-but-gone heyday of far-flying AM radio freedom--making every song feel like a late-night Amplitude Modulated transmission from alien mariachis that you've tuned in by accident, and that will be drowned out by top 40 Frequency Modulated noise all too soon.

if you're lucky enough to stumble across the phantom waves of Radio Zumbido... sincerely: DO NOT TOUCH THAT DIAL!!!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Step up in tempo from Chill Out CDs and the coffee house, November 13, 2002

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Gabriel DiBella (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ultimos Dias Del Am (Audio CD)

If you're looking for something completely new and beyond categorization, then you have to give this a try. It's, well..., a mix of latin, lo-fi, Amon Tobin thrown in a blender and crushed into a juicy drink to gulp down.

The CD only has seven full songs, the other four are "filler", AM radio type sound clips with indiscernible Spanish dialog in the background with some music laid over it. But the seven songs are solid, from the bright "radio solola" to the high energy "hi aleph", it's a good listen all the way through. The only song that stretches that is "lo-fi chicken bus", otherwise solid.

If you're looking to dive into something that's a step up in tempo from the "Chill Out" compilations, or just to get into something completely new that is too fast for a coffeehouse but not too jamming that you'll break your neck, then this will fill your hungering.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Meat Beat Manifesto en Espanol, November 9, 2005

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A. Johnston (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultimos Dias Del Am (Audio CD)

This album is just perfect. From beginning to end, it never lets up. It may be too loop-based in spots, but if you like dirty beats and totally seamless production with a chewed-up flavor, this is a flawless album.

There's nothing "clean" on this album and yet is never slips off the tracks or becomes garbled. Samples are layered on samples with extreme precision and the sense that you're listening to a broken Mexican radio through the wall of a Tijuana motel is incredibly immersive.

This is the most original Latin-flavored electronic album ever recorded in my opinion. Whether you like industrial music, turntablism, drum-n-bass or club music, this should satisfy your needs.