Label owner of Ya Basta Records, co founder of Gotan Project, DJ, composer and music producer for many artists, Philippe Cohen Solal is a former crate digger. And still a huge fan of cumbia… Look at this top 5. 
 
 
 

Bomba Estereo
Fuego

“The absolute incendiary bomb, if your dancefloor is not on fire when you play this piece, it is that are you in a cemetery.”

The Dead Menems
Taliban del Amor (El Remolon remix)

“From Argentina, this band of experimental cumbia-punk has a name without ambiguity. Here is the remix by El Remolon of the collective ZZK. Ah if the Talibans could groove like that.”

Lito
Cumbia em do minor

“One of the most famous cumbia comes from El Salvador. Thanks to the big composer and the musician Rafael « Lito » Barrientos, when jazz and cumbia couple…”

El Hijo de la Cumbia
Soy el Control

“Highspoted of the sound « nueva cumbia », Emiliano « son of the cumbia » Gòmez began at the age of 12, before becoming this Argentine B-Boy which will create this album. Fundamental.”

The Binary Cumbia Orchestra
La Inconformable (Schlachthofbronx remix)

“Everything, or almost, has been told in the title !”