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Ruben Blades in Concert 2018 - Malaga

I was very lucky to see one of the still living legends of Salsa and Latin music live - Rubén Blades is on tour again! I never dreamed of seeing the old master in person. So I was very enthusiastic when I heard about the concert a week ago. First of all, it was sensational!

Some of the younger readers may not know him, but rest assured that he is a legend of salsa and Latin jazz. To be allowed to experience this moment and this ingenious concert was something very special, which is why I decided to write a little concert review. Enjoy your reading.

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I love Bachata

From mid-January until now, as every year, a lot of new music has been released. Among them many Bachatas, traditional and modern ones. At regular intervals, usually twice a year, I publish my actual playlist online. These are not necessarily all super new Songs, but mostly new releases of the last months. You will surely already know some of them, but certainly not everything :)

I have also recorded some of these new releases, so that you have a good overview of really current pieces.
Enjoy browsing, dancing and listening!

So here comes my actual playlist Bachata:

The reader Dennis Bischi made a really cool Playlist of most of the named Bachatas. Thanks a lot Dennis! :)

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Victor und Cristina

Yesterday I had the pleasure attending a really nice Bachata-Workshop from Victor and Cristina. They were studiend with a lot of famous Bachata Teachers and teach for years now on congresses worldwide. Both, 21 and 22 years old, show the new direction of Bachata, that is fastly evolving from Bachata Sensual to a more danceable and fusionlike crossoverstyle. Mixing modern elements of Cuban Salsa and Crossbody-Salsa into modern Bachata.
This new Bachata it's very enjoyable and it is fun dancing sexy and skillfull at the same time!

After the workshops, both of them were available for countless social dances during the whole party and some of the dancers were surprised by the high skills also in salsa. Which is no wonder, as they are active participants in the "Mambo-Touch-Team-Malaga". A Project of the great Bersy Cortez and Noelia Delgado, which is a kind of master class exclusively for dance teachers.

The highlight of the evening was their performance with the current Bachata programme 2018. The audience appreciated it very much. After a long applause, they asked for an encore to the show and Victor and Cristina improvised a social dance which, thanks to his perfect interpretation of the music, almost looked like a studied show. Wow, they are real professionals:)

So, here are some linked videos from that Workshop at Conexión in Frankfurt.

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Romeo Santos

Romeo Santos is making a huge start for 2018. After the release of "El Farsante" two weeks ago, "Sobredosis" follows today. Also with Ozuna, this song was already recorded last year for the album "Golden". So today follows the video, almost a year later.

Probably many people are already familiar with this song, especially as it was one of the better ones from "Golden", which has already been played at many Bachata parties.
The video begins with the session in a group therapy, and the female therapist lets Romeo comment on his problem: sex addiction... Then you can see a flashback, where he is seduced and then tied to his bed by a very attractive woman. The video ends with the end of the group therapie, when the other men and their women are looking with intensive and seducing looks at Romeo.
Hahaha, I always knew, that his life is hard. 😂😂😂

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2017 was the year of big return of Reggaeton! A lot of artistst, even the most famous Lationpop artists like Shakira and Romeo Santos, published really good Reggaetonmusic. Some of the Artists from the golden time of Reggaeton (2004-2006) like Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, Chino & Nacho, Zion & Lenox, Wisin and Yandel are still very active and produce really good music! But newer artists like Nicky Jam, J. Balvin, Jacob Forever, Maluma. Ozuna, Bad Bunny and Farruko have taken over and are selling a lot!
Relativly new is also a new dicetion in Latin music, that has evolved from Hip-Hop: Latin-Trap.
I am really glad about all this "new" Reggaeton and Latin-Trap and hope you like my playlist, with mostly new releases.
As always, I'm looking forward to your comments and your tips. Leave me your messages on Facebook or by mail.

 

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Romeo Santos

I was just looking through some recent youtube videos, when I get the hint of a new video by Romeo Santos. But what am I looking at? "El Farsante? Wait a minute, that's the brilliant "Latin Trap" number from Ozuna, where there's already a wonderful Bachata remix from DJ Tronky.
Obviously, this has also been heard by Romeo Santos, and he thought that he could do like many of his colleagues in 2017 (like Shakira, Marc Anthony, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Jennifer Lopez and many others), who are releasing a duet  from an already very famous chart song. So now it is Romeo Santos who jumps onto a already moving train. And listen to it, that Remix is sheer magic! Romeo has chosen very well!
In short: WOW

Here, Latin trap and the most famous Bachata singer meet and form a brilliant symbiosis of one of the best dance songs at the moment - close your eyes and turn the music on! 😍😍😍.

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Daniel und Desiree Workshop

Videos in social media sometimes get a lot of attention. If so, and the number of views reaches really high quotes, people say the picture or video gets viral. Usually this happens to videos from teenagers who give make-up tips or funny videos from people getting hurt or falling with their skateboard from a roof. ;-)
Viral videos are an interesting phenomenon and it happened to one of my videos. That's really fantastic! The interesting thing about this, it is a bachata dance video that got a lot of attention and not a make-up video! In this article I try to analyze it from my point of view.


In March 2016 I filmed the two world-famous Bachata dancers Daniel and Desiree, who are probably the most known and hottest Bachata dancers in the world. The filming took place at the end of a workshop at the Frankfurt Salsa Festival 2016. Since then, this video has reached 6 million clicks. WOW - this number still surprises me today!

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kubanischer Oldtimer

Well, a not so serious contribution: -) I noticed in the last few months that you can hear a lot of music from Cuba in the club this year. A real flood of new Cuban music, mostly Timba or with many hard Timba and Cubaton-elements. Good for dancing but for me personally, too  monotonous! Especially the harder kind of Timba, with little melody and a lot of angry screaming, is too much for my taste. So while standing at the dancefloor, I started to listen to the dance breaks and listened to more details; -)

As a musician, I really like Cuban music very much. There has never been a lack of imaginative rhythms, variations, good singing and a lot of positive emotions in cuban music. SO do not get me wrong about this. I am not against cuban music!

But, as is it is often the case, when money is earned, commercial interests are gradually emerging and then you will find more and more songs that are quickly composed (within minutes) to satisfy the taste of the average dancer and to make quick money!

Then even this "Cuban" music is suddenly unimaginative, simple, commercial, self-reproducing and above all boring. In fact it is not cuban at all, only a poor and commercial imitation of the real cuban music we all like!

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Volle Tanzfläche


Online lists of guidelines for dancing are abundant. The trend comes from the US and can be very helpful for beginners.

Recently I found a Spanish list that focuses on six "do's and don'ts" in salsa dancing. At first glance the list may seem legit. But after a closer look it became clear to me, that some of the guidelines are outdated and deserve closer attention. Salsa has changed in the last 10 years, as well as Bachata. But are our "rules of behavior" also changing?

One thing is certain, a lot more young people are dancing today than 10 or 15 years ago. Another factor which makes it complicated to agree on a certain set of rules, is the fact that for a lot of other dance styles, for instance ball room dancing, the focal points are different.

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This year Reggaeton was in my eys more present in the media than in the previous years. The more poppy version of it, which can be heard at Chantaje or Despacito, certainly has something to do with this. Some of the old heroes of the golden years (2004-2006) like Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, Chino & Nacho, Zion & Lenox and Wisin are still present and delivering good music! But also artists who have become more famous in the last few years also had much more attention this year. These include J. Balvin, Jacob Forever, Maluma and Farruko. But the most you can hear is Nicky Jam, who has been in the business for a long time!
All in all, I am very happy about the "return" and that Reggaeton has established itself in general (in Cuba and Latin America Reggaeton it was never gone!)
As always, I'm looking forward to your comments and your tips. Leave me your messages on Facebook or by mail.

 

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Benidorm a ti te llama

 

¡Benidorm a ti te llama! "Benidorm is calling you" - This slogan is, like in every summer, the invitation to one of the most popular european Salsa- and Bachatacongresses. It is definitly the most know congress in Spain and has in my eyes the highest level of every other congress I have visited so far. Benidorm is located close to Alicante at the spanish mediterrean cost. This is one of the most touristic regions of spain, so you see a lot of skyscrapers from the big and important Hotels and the city is crowded by tourists from all over the world (mostly from Spain, Britan and Germany). People say, that the squaremeter for building houses and hotels is as expensie as in New York... but I doubt that ;-)

The Benidorm-Festival is divided in two parts: the first week you will find mainly Bachata and Cuban Salsa and the second week is dedicated to Salsa, Mambo and other styles. For two weeks, Benidorm is the worls-capital of Salsa :)

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Victor Martos & Cristina Avila

 

At the moment I am in Malaga at the Costa Del Sol and I am listening to a lot of new music. Here in Malaga you will find, like in every big spanish city, every night lots of different Latinpartys and of course a lot of very popular DJs. The DJs here know exactly whta to play, the competition is really high, so every DJs knows about the new stuff as well as the old classic and the very dancable tunes that fill the dancefloor in a second.
I will publish some articles under the tag Summer 2017 in this blog about the dancescene here and the actual trends. I would ilke to start with the actual Bachataplylist.

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I love Bachata

 

Time to look back to 2016 and also embrace 2017: Last year was a very good one for Salsa and especially Bachata. So many new songs, beautiful and fragile like "Sabanas Blancas" and fast and dancable like "En Todo Fuiste La Mejor" or "Quitemonos La Ropa". We had some really good songs on the dancefloors that still are important today!
This is always a good sign, if the songs stay longer and you are not bored of them after 2 weeks :)
So here comes my actual playlist Bachata:
 

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DJ Tronky - Italy

Who really likes Bachata will probably know DJ Tronky from Italy. In Bachatamusic he is one of the most famous DJ at the time.
I was lucky to have a some words with DJ Tronky from Rome. He is well known to everybody who is looking for new and fresh Bachata. His remixes are unique and have a fresh and modern sound. Tronky belongs to the new generation of Bachata-DJs who change the character of a song to give them a complete new sound, a new direction but still remind closely to the original song the same time!

Here is my interview with him:

 

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Christmas tree ball

X-mas, the time of year where we like to be with our families and loved ones. Sometimes its difficult to find the right music and not everybody likes to hear chartmusic at Christmas Eve.
Of course latinmusic has a lot to offer for this time of the year. From very commercial albums to unforgettable masterpieces you will find a lot of vere fine and nice salsamusic.
So there is no need to listen to the crap that comes every year for X-mas from the well known popstars! Here is a collection of my favorite Christmassongs. Feel free to fill your Spotify-playlist or buy them.
And please write me your favourite titles in the comments on Facebook. Thank you!

Happy Christmas everybody!

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2015 was a really good year for bachata. Lots of new songs and woderful music. I am sure, that lots of the songs will stay with us for some time longer.
Already 2014 was a good year for Us-American Bacgata! The US-american musicindustry pubished a lot of ne spanish and spanglish music. Romeo Santos published his new album "Formula 2" which was dominating until today the dancefloors. Also JR and Leslie Grace made some good music! Both represent a new popstyle Bachata.