Alt.Latino's favorite Tiny Desk Contest entries
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🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Felix and Ana sifted through all the entries and pulled their favorites from artists with roots all across the Americas. And if one of them ends up winning, you can thank us for the introduction.
Songs featured in this episode:
•Cathia, "Taza de Café"
•Manu Manzo, "Celos"
•Mireya Ramos and the Poor Choices, "Quiero Volver"
•Flaco el Jandro, "Lluvia Pesada"
•Los Quinceañeros, "Guero"
•La Doña, "Loser Girl"
•Alejandro Aranda, "Pieces"
Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler, with editorial support from Hazel Cills. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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| 0:25.0 | So Felix, I had my birthday party this weekend. |
| 0:32.0 | I heard, thank you for inviting me. everyone's been talking about it you were invited |
| 0:35.8 | I was you went to the spot instead I'm not offended it's fine priorities |
| 0:40.9 | and this is like the first big party I feel like be thrown at my house, but across the street. |
| 0:47.0 | I don't know what's going on, but they're always having Kinsz. I don't know if they have a bunch of kids. I don't know. |
| 0:52.0 | So me and my roommate we like to |
| 0:53.0 | sit there and kind of like judge all the kids as they come up the stairs like really |
| 0:57.2 | like sit there in our window like checking out their outfits and it's always like |
| 1:01.0 | the girls show up really early and they look really nice and the boys show up like last minute and they look like terrible. |
| 1:06.0 | Anyways I felt some pressure with my birthday playlist to kind of compete. |
| 1:10.0 | They really play some bangers at these Keynes days every week and I just felt like |
| 1:15.2 | still I wasn't able to rise to compete with these 15 year olds and so I thought to myself |
| 1:20.5 | you know what they can't do. They can't bring original Tiny Dust |
| 1:24.6 | contest music. So I figured what a great day. |
| 1:29.1 | What a great idea to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Tiny Desk Contest. |
| 1:34.5 | We can call this the episode where we pick all the best time as contest entries for |
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