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Download El Guincho's "FM Tan Sexy"

Download El Guincho’s “FM Tan Sexy.” El Guincho’s Pop Negro will be released Sept. 14 on Young Turks....  read more

El Guincho's "Hindou" Video: The Captain Was Here

Spanish tropical-psych-pop master El Guincho released a video for chilled-out, steel-drum-heavy “Hindou,” off the EP Piratas de Sudamérica, Vol. 1, and it features an adorable young pirate attempting to navigate a river and play the vibes with a plastic hook hand....  read more

Artist of the Week: El Guincho

It takes ninety seconds of El Guincho's "Antillas" to feel slightly uneasy. The stuttering polyrhythms and carnival motifs hammer on, cyclic and unremitting. Finally, nearing the four-minute mark, a cymbal crash ushers in a euphoric climax, layers of chiming melodies and pattering drums...  read more

El Guincho to release Alegranza! stateside, tour U.S.

It's about time that Alegranza!, the debut LP from Barcelona-based bricoleur El Guincho (real name Pablo Díaz-Reixa), sees the light of official release. The battle for sample-clearances now dispensed with and Young Turks/XL Recordings signed on for the deal, those stateside folks who haven't somehow already obtained the album (which has been moderately available for much of 2008) can acquaint themselves Oct. 21 with the transfixing carnival offered by its nine tracks. ...  read more