Welcome to the exciting and colourful cosmos of PanameriKa, Red Bull Music Academy Radio's window to Latin America's vital music scene and its protagonists. PanameriKa is... the star on Ch Guevara's beret, a tickle on your stomach from the stolen Montezuma's feather crown, Maradona's header aided by the hand of God - himself - in '86, a golden apple that you won't find on Carmen Miranda's cornucopia-hat, and what's hidden beneath a mariachi's sombrero. Whatever implications you might have made on things worn on the head around the Americas, put a pair of headphones on, and let us blow your mind with a true selection from the new sound booming all along PanameriKa. Presented by Reactor 105.7's glamorously-voiced seorita Elvis (yes, it can also be a girl's name around here), and a team of music-luchadores, PanameriKa is selected, written and produced by Uriel Waizel in the Ibero 90.9 radio studios in Mexico City, with the technical post-production savvy of 'Fo', and the assistance of Jimena Albert. PanameriKa will provide you with an enlightening array of references on the bountiful production of music coming from this side of the planet. Atencin, though: Spanish is spoken here, but then again, you may skip those classes this way, and save some dinero, amigo! For this edition PanameriKa embellishes itself with a honorable visit by Camilo Lara: founder and lead member of the Mexican Institute of Sound. With two brilliant mexa-retro-collagist albums: "Mejico Maxico" (Nacional, 2006) and "Pinata" (Nacional, 2007) and a forthcoming album this year called "Soy Sauce", the MIS has established itself along the audiences tastes (and advertisers alike), as a quirky source for latin plunderphonics mixed along with kitschy-corny samples topped by the even-naive-flow from Camilo's self-confessing lyrics. Major label executive by day, and lab rat by night, Mr.Lara has built an extensive network where you can connect stereophonic genius Juan Garcia Esquivel along with Johnny Cash, just by joining the dots of the MIS's remixes. Stay along for this PanameriKa, as our MC and host, Elvis, welcomes along this special guest, who unleashes some of precious bits from his unlimited phonographic vaults.
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