tasty

i'm walking the roma with pablo borchi and santiago carranza, who along with raul sotomayor, are beat buffet, one of the hottest new acts to come out of the d.f. in some considerable time. the mixture of dazzling salsa keyboards and rapping reminds me of kinky sharing the stage with the streets. the celebratory feel of jorge ben is in there too, as is a measure of the quirkily magnificent instituto mexicano del sonido. live, with the addition of smoking brass and a drummer who wouldn't be out of place keeping time for the meters, it is a revelation. we wander into the condesa, discussing irakere, nsm psm, afrodita and, most importantly, beat buffet's desire to get out on the streets and perform. we walk down calle nuevo leon, a road haunted by the spirits of jazz musicians. it was at the jazz bar, nuevo leon 16, where cuban visionary chico o'farrill first encountered chilo moran, tommy rodriguez and the cream of the d.f. scene. if santiago had been around fifty years ago, he would have been playing alongside these heavyweights, but this is 2009 and santiago, pablo and raul get their kicks as djs and producers as well. winners of the prestigious ibero mixtape competition, they've supported crystal castles, yelle and cut copy to great acclaim and worked with nylon magazine and those hippest of chilango hipsters, sicario. their mix cd will be on sale in condesa's indie mecca discoteca this saturday, so get your dancing shoes on and shimmy down there at your earliest possible convenience in order to sate your musical appetite. the mix can also be heard in a number of the finer independent stores in the roma and will be available in barcelona, come june. those with a discerning palette are recommended to pay a visit to http://djsoundsys.com/blog/beat-buffet/

beat buffet en vivo