The Cologne-based label Kompakt has always been very keen at the time of selecting their artists. Well known for a microhouse and minimal techno register, they have also many tangent cases which flirt with the label sound but proposing something different and new.
Matias Aguayo is one of these artists, and since 2005 he’s been in the Kompakt catalogue providing a Latin essence to the German label. Known for the single ‘Minimal’ in which its lyrics, ironically, claim annoyance for the excess of minimal releases, this Chilean musician delivers this October his second album called ‘Ay Ay Ay’.
The record clearly shows the process and skills that Aguayo gained since his previous 2005 LP, ‘Are You Really Lost’. The songs are built in a “tribalesque-meets-South-America” rhythmic structure including vocal beats, followed by rather silly, yet funny lyrics, mostly in Spanish. The eleven tracks pretty much continue this path and in some of them like ‘Koro Koro’ or ‘Juanita’ we can find dyes of Afropop like The Very Best or Afric Erotic and more regional Latin sounds.
It seems that Aguayo has settled in a very characteristic sound, and in a peculiar, somewhat ironic writing style. ‘Ay Ay Ay’ may not surprise us with catchy melodies or choruses, instead it proposes with theses tracks rooted in South America.
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