Champeta has recently lurched from Fat Planet’s peripheral vision into a near-front-and-centre position. Colombiafrica‘s album ‘Voodoo Love Inna Champeta Land’ was first out of the traps at the tail end of 2007, and this week one of our favourite blogs, Ghetto Bassquake, brings us ‘Champeta Trance’. Champeta is a bastard hybrid of a dictionary of genres: highlife, afrobeat, zouk, cumbia, soca, calypso – and undoubtedly dozens more – and can be found throughout Colombia’s Caribbean coast. For its trance rebirth, ‘El Pulpo‘ fires up decades-old Casio keyboards and drum machines and a liberal sherbert dib dab of old rave samples. Sadly no mp3 audio to speak of as yet – if you’re hoarding, fire it over.
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