Uproot Andy | Barrioteca

Uproot Andy is sharing there latest track "Barrioteca," a word that means "neighborhood tech" or "discoteca del barrio," and is used to describe the different kinds of electronic music you hear in New York's neighborhoods.



"It's music thats connected to local traditions but also to the global influences of hip hop and electronic music... usually within a single song," "We have dembow popping up in Mexican music and cumbia in Puerto Rican music. Genres born only a few years ago, like moombahton, are now used as structural elements in building a song."

"Barrioteca" contains elements of reggaeton, dembow, mambo de calle, dancehall, hip-hop, juke, trap, EDM, and moombahton (got that?). Uproot Andy says he was particularly looking towards the "DJ Playero era before it had a name," especially in the way the track switches between dembow rhythms and the hip-hop bap, "just as you would hear on a Playero mixtape, but amplified for today." Uproot Andy

Uproot Andy's Barrioteca EP will be released for free tomorrow here