Domus México Mixtape is a series curated by architect and developer Alberto Bustamante (@demomilton) #mexicanjihad
This mixtape was published in Domus México 04, December 2012 / January 2013
Deep under our skins, Mexico City's Hotel Bamer. From its corner, dominating both avenida Juárez and Luis Moya, it contemplates from above the ashes of the area's lush and lively nightlife. The hotel's top-floor nightclub, the Bamerette, was one of the city's most elegant and sophisticated: amidst a varied musical program, many major figures of the capital's mid-century music scene — not necessarily the more well-known — paraded daily.
The nightlife of the area was framed by the vigorous activity of radio stations (particularly XEW and XEQ) located in the area known as the Latin Quarter, and the high rate of migrants, especially Caribbean, working in cabarets, nightclubs and bars of all kinds, for all budgets and tastes.
An authentic scene, that came to define the golden age of Mexican cinema, when radio activity was lively and influential, in the period when there was a thriving national music industry.
The stereotype of the carefree Mexican, the rumbero, a cheerful, talkative, playful individual, always up for dancing, is constructed and defined in this period, between 1940 and 1970. The influence of Afro-Cuban rhythms and dances, such as the mambo, have been instrumental in this process, which first emerged in the old abandoned properties, deleted from the current map, but not from collective memory. Today the Bamerette (a historical nightclub in the Mexican capital) is quiet and, its many ghosts still watching, waits for new times to come, alongside numerous other ballrooms, cabarets and nightclubs in what was once the Latin America dance capital. Tropicaza / Carlos Icaza, (@lacalacausalaca) journalist, musician, DJ and timeless, out-of-the-ordinary music investigator-archaeologist
Tracklist
01. Entrada – Bracelette
02. Tenochtitlan – Vibroc
03. Zona Rosa – Los Tepetatles
04. Hey baba be bap – Negrito + Chevalier
05. Caminando por Reforma – Pepe González
06. Mexico lindo – Silvestre Méndez
07. La taquiza – Oskar
08. Limpiadas sicodelicas – Cesar Sosa y su conjunto
09. Gateando – Pérez Prado
10. La gata borracha – Manuel Valdéz
11. La paloma – J.G. Esquivel
12. Sueño Mexicano – Carlos Román
13. Luces de la ciudad – Mario Patrón
14. Dulce mierda – Placeres Divinos
15. La naca de Beco – Nosotros los Pobres
16. Encuentro – Masos
17. Debemos separarnos – Nacho Méndez
18. Me gusta México – Pérez Prado
19. Salida – No sale
20. Pilón con Chepina
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