Recent content by Rudy Meixell

Hector "El Bambino" & Naldo Presentan: Sangre Nueva is one of the better collections I've heard (although most of the best tracks are on the first disc), with a mix of the poppy and the more aggressive. Tego Calderon's The Underdog/El Subestimado, from last year, has a lot of good stuff on it...

Is this meant to imply that reggaeton is some type of salsa? It's not "improper salsa," it's not salsa at all (unless you're using salsa to mean pretty much any type of Latin music, but most people who are salsa dancers don't use it that way). But anyway, it shouldn't be a surprise that...

Sure, I can understand someone feeling that way. I just don't think that it should be surprising or somehow automatically suspect for someone to like salsa and not like reggaeton, or to like roots reggae and not like dancehall. (Reggaeton is definitely growing on me, anyway, but yes, I prefer...

Okay, forget the analogy. (At least when it comes to dancehall. I have read that dancehall at least partly grew out of mento--I hope I have that right--a religious/folkloric genre that hadn't really fed into reggae, but I don't know too much about this, so I'm not going to try to argue that...

Also, for those of us who are mostly not thrilled with entirely electronic music (and I include myself in that group), "world music" (a term I don't like either) provides a lot of alternatives for those of us with reactionary (another term I don't like in this context) taste in music. If I want...

Why would you automatically assume that someone who likes salsa would like reggaeton or that someone who likes roots reggae would automatically like dancehall, to begin with? To me that sounds like a lumping together of styles of music that don't share similar aesthetics. Kind of like asking...