A shelf in the record shop
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Salsa, cumbia, Latin alternative — from Havana to Buenos Aires.
10 stations
Every station here plays in 432 Hz instead of the usual 440 if you want it to — the page shifts the pitch down by 31.77 cents. We promise you no effect. We give you a dial.
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Gladys Palmera · Barcelona, ES · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
Alejandra Fierro Eleta has assembled one of the largest private collections of Latin American music in the world and broadcasts from it. Cuban recordings from the forties next to Colombian psychedelic funk — a record store within the record store.
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Gladys Palmera · Barcelona, ES · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
The present-day channel of the same collection: current Latin American productions instead of archive material. Shows that the traditions aren't sitting in a museum, but are being carried forward electronically right now.
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Universidad Iberoamericana · Mexiko-Stadt, MX · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
The university radio of the Ibero in Mexico City, run by students and steadfastly avoiding the charts. The best place for Mexican indie, digital cumbia, and whatever's occupying the local scene right now.
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Tikast · Cali, CO · aac · 64 kbit/s
Salsa dura is the hard, fast style from the seventies — Fania sound, horn sections, no ballads. Broadcast from Cali, the city that turned salsa into folk art even though it isn't from Colombia.
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Retroland Digital · Monterrey, MX · aac · 99 kbit/s
Classic cumbia from Mexico, the sonidero tradition of street parties in Monterrey and Mexico City. Music that's been coming out of man-high speakers on street corners there for decades — here without the street noise.
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La Salsa Maestra · Lima, PE · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
A Peruvian salsa station with a pronounced pull toward recordings from the seventies and eighties. Peru has its own salsa history, one that usually gets lost next to Cuba and New York.
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Salsa Brava · Caracas, VE · aac · 131 kbit/s
Venezuelan salsa from Caracas, a city with its own, harder strain of the genre. Broadcasts at 136 kbit/s AAC and without ad breaks, which is the exception among Latin American stations.
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Emite Radio · La Paz, BO · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
Bolivian and Andean cumbia from the nineties, with synthesizers and drum machines instead of horns. A branch of the genre all its own, sounding like someone ran folk music through a home studio.
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Panamericana · Lima, PE · aac · 128 kbit/s
The salsa channel of a major Peruvian station, with real hosting and callers from Lima. Less curated than the other channels on this shelf, but closer to what's actually playing there.
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RTVC · Bogotá, CO · aac · 48 kbit/s
Colombia's public station for everything else that doesn't make it onto radio — Colombian rock, cumbia in unexpected arrangements, hip-hop out of Medellín. The bitrate is modest; the selection isn't.
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