Alt.Latino's Best New Music Round-Up: DannyLux, Kali Uchis and Dario Acosta Teich

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🗓️ 16 August 2023

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Summary

This week, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras round up their favorite music from the last few months, including Mexican bedroom pop from Bratty, jazz from Argentinian composer Dario Acosta Teich, a new song from rising regional star DannyLux and more.

To hear more of Alt.Latino's favorite music, follow our Spotify and Apple Music playlists.

Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited, mixed and produced by Janice Llamoca. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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0:00.0	Okay, so we're in the studio. We're ready to go. I almost fell and you just like didn't even try to help me.
0:05.5	It was all part of a plot, I feel like so I've just been waiting to try to help me.
0:09.2	And I can take over.
0:30.0	From hip-hop music, this is all Latino, I'm Felix Contanas.
0:33.2	And I'm Anamaria Sayer. Let the cheese may begin. We better have some good cheese made today, Felix.
0:39.2	Okay, and we will have great cheese made because we're presenting new music, some new releases from the last few months or so.
0:46.4	And we have a whole list of stuff that we're going to go with. And what are we listening to right now?
0:51.6	Oh well, thank God, Felix. We're starting off on the right now. I'm going first.
0:56.6	We've got Agosto from Bratia.
1:12.3	So Felix, I feel like we've been saying for a while that it's Mel and Collex summer.
1:18.0	Like for the past few summers, we had Un Verano Sinti, we've had all these moments of like sad,
1:24.8	reflective, which you know, we we vibe with that. We're all about the sad reflective Mel and Collex tracks.
1:30.5	And Bratia, our classic Mexican bedroom pop girlie, really went all out on the Mel and Collex summer pop track.
1:39.8	I mean, I love hearing this from her. It's just bumping along, reflective, got this minimal production under her.
1:47.0	The thing that struck me the most, Felix, I don't know if you noticed this opening line.
1:51.2	Which translates to, I woke up wanting to be someone driving without knowing where she was going or who she was, but without wanting to return.
2:07.6	Like, okay, let's see what that thought brought me. Like that really got me going and I just love she does some really interesting creative lyricism and this is a gorgeous example of that.
2:21.2	That's a great way. Great summer tune to keep this going. Nice call. Okay.
2:32.4	Don't sound too excited, Felix. No, because I'm thinking about how it mixes perfectly to the next track.
2:39.6	This is from a guitarist named Dario Acosta Tic. He has a great new album called Acosta Tango.
2:54.0	It's a rumination of like seven original tunes on Tango mixed with jazz and it has the same kind of summery vibe, believe it or not.
3:02.7	We didn't plan this, but it has the same summery vibe. We never plan it, Felix.
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