Blog: State Magazine

Aimed at the dance floor Bomba Estéreo are a new act from Bogota taking Colombian roots music and updating it in the 21st century. Using electronica and dub stylings plugged into Afro-Caribbean rhythms such as cumbia, champeta and bullerengue, they deliver electro-folklore to a new audience with their new album Blow Up and they dropped into Dublin to show off their sound last Friday night. The Button Factory was far from full as the Columbian five-piece took to the stage. Opening with a sampled electronic soundscape backed by experimental projections (all filmed by up [...]