Panameño.
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i like so far
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Childhood memories:
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A mistaken thought (following a flag) when it appeared the topic may have been intended as non-english .. as you were !
Well, it appears this topic can’t be readily moderated if it’s largely non-english, but that’s not to be taken as an invite to play loose with the guidelines. In order to retain the trust this discretion confers it actually implies you have to be more careful to protect the language freedom. A related French chat topic exists because it can be moderated, if required.
If there’s no flags here it’s all good, there’s no danger the topic will be affected. So everyone wins if those who value this are invested in keeping it ‘clean’ themselves.
As a courtesy we’d politely suggest that if things veer towards tasty general interest discussions that aren’t really ‘on topic’ or necessarily of parochial interest to folk posting here that these are shared in the usual places for all to benefit from.
It’s hard to tell from the opening post if this is envisaged mostly as a thread for native ‘speaking’ or for regional musics or both … but if it’s mostly about the music it might be fairer to aim to keep it open for the majority to enjoy(understand).
For the record, as elsewhere, if there’s any detection of back-door marketplace activity here it will be the quickest way to ensure the topic is closed, so please don’t let this happen.
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I will assume that this is what the OP and the rest of contributors aim for: a place to discuss a music “thing” from a specific culture in a manner that everyone else can contribute, enjoy, and benefit from. As a Spanish speaker and contributor to the thread, I feel comfortable in making the assumption that any Spanish comments in it are used as quick acknowledgement that those of us who do speak the language also have a real interest, investment, and more importantly, direct experience with the topic. That said, I again feel comfortable to say that it is probably not in anyone’s interest to keep this thread as exclusive thing, even if no rules on the matter existed because sharing is caring! As it has been shown, after those quick little comments, the conversations and the core topic have remained in English. If any non-native Spanish speaker wants to throw a quick and silly phrase in Spanish to spice things up, I think that would be more than adequate, and also promote inclusiveness.
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We’ll behave! promise! … Ellers lær spansk i stedet og så kan dere moderere tråden, da! 
Seriously though, we’ll try to keep it English for the most part 
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I’ve been playing around with hiding two songs or ideas within the same pattern, and use the ctrl+All with Chance to cross-fade between them.
AFAIK, this trick can only be pulled on Elektron sequencer.
This one has a slowdown cumbia that mutates into some kind of Caribbean vaporwave:
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Here you go. I did a quick loop for you, please do not mind the mixing. I used some of a Polar Inertia track as background texture to make things quicker, eveything else is me.
Basically I am using the most basic of basic Samba rhythms here, which you can hear on the Bass, the ride, the synths… pretty much everyting but the kick is supporting the same Samba rhythm here… this is the rhythm I am using here:
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Damn so many recommendations here already, Inneed to catch up!
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Sheesh, I’m in the feel it out school of thought, but if I recall from attempts in the past to mix some musical thing with the music I already make, I have started by making an attempt to learn how to make the musical thing by itself. It’s kinda like if you ask a native English speaker without practical Spanish speaking skills to try to speak in Spanglish. That person will need some command of Spanish in order to mix the two, and that person will need practice speaking Spanish in order to be able to do that.
So maybe put some time aside and make Brazilian rhythms with whatever machine or app, putting a ton more emphasis on the rhythm and the music, and way less on the sound and sound design.
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I grew up playing samba in Seattle. Getting to know the rhythms and even better, if you have a chance to play in a group will be one of the most fun experiences. It’s all call and response. Maximum percussion while maintaining a serious groove.
Some of the challenges with adapting to four on the floor will be timing as it’s not all 4/4. Some of the patterns for Caixa/snare drum are not a steady tempo… It’s a speed up/slow down roll but its what make it groove. Dueling surdos hits it home.
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Totally, I agree. That said, as producers without the opportunity to play in a group of any sort, programming patterns of these rhythms is still very, very fruitful. And if a person can dance, groove, twist those hips, shuffle those feet, and have a body that can feel and react to those and any rhythm, that is also soooo huge. It’s all dance music after all, right?
(I’m skeptical and cynical of dance music producers who don’t know how to dance… but I digress)
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have you ever encountered any!?!?
I remember my first club, leaning like a cholo (Chicano meaning - I hear you southies use it differently) but another friend was by himself dancing with all the ladies. Nobody twisted my arm… I started dancing and haven’t stopped since.
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I heavily recommend listening to some funky from São Paulo. A lot of techno aesthetics and ideas for mixing rhythms.
NTS released a compilation not too long ago:
I was lucky to go to a party with one of the DJs playing… One of the craziest shit I’ve ever lived.
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Crazy like this?
Bia Marques is solid. There are others doing electro-phonk (just came with that name…) here in Río worth checking. I will try to put their socials here for anyone interesting in hearing.
Pretty intense.
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For the purposes Victor is aiming for, the patterns not being 4/4 might play to his advantage. Elements drifting out against rigid 4/4 patterns is pretty big in techno so there’s plenty for him to experiment.
I wouldn’t make it obvious, like in the example above where it is using the most common samba pattern, however it is not doing so overtly so not everyone listening would automatically know it is a samba rhythm.
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I’ve looked into samba styles like Partido Alto (mostly the pandeiro beat) or samba de breque. Maracatu has also some pretty nice beats to steal from, just haven’t cracked it to adapt.
So yes, mostly samba, not sure how I’d fit bossa nova (but seems like a fun challenge :D), or maracatu.
This is great! Thanks a lot for taking the time, really good inspiration for me, for some reason my brain works much better with examples, I had tried to adapt a similar pattern but it got nowhere, something clicked by hearing what you’ve made 
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I’m not completely into this, but I loved the slowed down cumbia (cumbia rebajada as I understand) music in the movie 'Ya no estoy aquí’. It seems it’s a pretty local phenomenon in Monterrey (MEX) while the music is mostly from Columbia - please don’t judge me when this is not the complete story. This VICE documentary is very interesting if you like to know more of it.
In my search for more I found this, among some others. I guess cumbia is especially ‘live’ music - which I like also, but I really love this electronic style with deep basses. (So any suggestions with some more of this are very welcome!)
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