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Sample Track 1:
"Lightswitch" from KiT
Sample Track 2:
"Maria TaJora" from KiT
Sample Track 3:
"Mambo Mexicano" from Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta
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"La Marseillaise en creole" from Lo'Jo
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"Akal Warled" from Imharhan Timbuktu
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"Amassakoul n'Tenere" from Imharhan Timbuktu
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Artist Pick

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Sergio Mendoza says his grandfather was playing in a Mexican military band at the age of 7 in Sonora. That's how far Mendoza's musical roots go back, and his performances at SXSW this year reflect those roots with a vision that would have made his grandfather proud. Mendoza says he's fascinated by 1950s-era big-band mambo bandleader Perez Prado; he faithfully reinterprets Prado's style, but when he adds a surf guitar, the sound becomes fresh and new. It grooves like a runaway train

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