Word: reggaetone
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...roommate, I wondered why all the tricked-out trucks and lowriders were blasting the exact same song from their subwoofers. It wasn’t until I listened past the thumping bass and clockwork rhythm that I realized that I was hearing a whole genre of music; almost all reggaeton songs feature an identical drum rhythm, called “Dem Bow” after the Jamaican dancehall song it was borrowed from. I’m a part-time party DJ, so I was embarrassed to have been so ignorant of a whole world of dance music...
While most Harvard students see an undergraduate degree as their road to prestige, Francisco Saldana and Victor Cabrera started elsewhere at the University: working in the Leverett House dining hall. They left Harvard in 2001 for Puerto Rico and have since become the production kings of reggaeton. As Luny Tunes, they have produced a string of hits, including Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina,” Don Omar’s “Dale Don Dale,” and several remixes of Paris Hilton’s “Stars are Blind...
...Campaigning before thousands of roaring, red T-shirted socialist youths at a Caracas arena, Chavez leaps around the stage to the sounds of the Puerto Rican hip-hop derivative known as "reggaeton" and Venezuela's driving gaita music, unleashing all his raving martial thunder. "Be an army," he shouts, "whose commandos, battalions and platoons do combat day and night until we reduce our opponents to rubble and dust!" If, as expected, Chavez trounces Rosales on Sunday, he can technically claim victory in his larger fight with the U.S. - but just barely...
...months, music critics have been announcing the demise of reggaeton. Here come the paramedics: two middle-class half brothers from Puerto Rico. Calle 13 has eschewed the genre's obsession with machine-gun beats and opted for new-wave keyboards, funk-inspired bass lines and even the occasional clarinet lick. The lyrics are clever--often hilarious--and go beyond babes, bullets and bling. Atrvete-te-te dares an intellectual girl to come out of the pop-rock closet and embrace reggaeton. No doubt Calle 13 will persuade others to do the same...
This folk-pop amalgam never descends into coffeehouse clich. For most of the songs, the Mexican chanteuse accompanies her velvety voice on acoustic guitar and now and then some rocking accordion. (Yes, accordions can rock.) She even experiments with reggaeton on Primer Da but makes it her own by adding Spanish guitar. The title track recalls a Yellow Submarine--era Beatles--as digested by Mexico. But it's the effortless singing and light tropical beat on Sin Documentos that catch Venegas at her swayworthy best...