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Sample Track 1:
"Nite Nine" from La Revancha del Burro
Sample Track 2:
"Eso ke es" from La Revancha del Burro
Sample Track 3:
"Artificial (feat. Debbie Harry)" from La Revancha del Burro
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Bio

More About Systema Solar

Tagged by many as Colombia’s most explosive live act, Systema Solar is different in pretty much every way. They don’t play by the usual rules. They’re an audio-visual collective, not a band in the usual sense. Formed in in 2007, six individuals from different cities, with backgrounds in tropical, cumbia, techno, champeta, hip hop, rock, and hacking culture got together. And from there on the magic started.

With live performance, music, costumes and live visuals, Systema Solar is a magical, immersive experience, as audiences at SXSW, Glastonbury, Roskilde, Vive Latino and Lollapalooza Chile have experienced. They call it “berbenautika” —taken from the verbenas, ghetto block parties thrown in little Colombian towns; and nautika, from travelling through that world and beyond. A cosmonautical trip that, through carnival-rave culture, celebrates unity, transforming from within by connecting the dancefloor with the deep power of the Universe.

With an innovative approach towards nu-Colombian music, old school cumbia samples partnered with techno fierceness, carnivalesque euphoria with streetwise politics and humor, shamanic mannerisms with scratching blaze, with hymns like “Mi Kolombia”, “Bienvenidos” and “Sin Oficio”, the self-titled debut Systema Solar (2009) took the band to unrivalled heights within the local scene, becoming a non-stop world touring act ever since.

As a result, it’s taken four years for a second album to surface.

But the time for La Revancha del Burro (The Donkey’s Revenge) has come.

In their upcoming album, Systema Solar take a further step in their future primitive sound, taking Colombia’s Afrocaribbean legacy to new territories, at times sounding like Barranquilla’s Carnival gone EDM rave. This sense of breaking boundaries powers through “Artificial”, where New York’s new wave goes tropicalia as Blondie’s Debbie Harry guests singing over a Dominican bachata.

With a recurring message promoting independence, dignity, DIY and joy, Systema Solar leads to action. Deliberately provocative, their latest single “La Rana” was intented as a campaign to promote global action towards recycling. Specialized in community empowerment and knowledge exchange, Intermundos, their own NGO, gives local workshops on eco-housing, recycling, community radio and alternative schooling in the Caribbean coast of Colombia. With a hardcore regime in Colombia and a long history of bloodshed in the country, people have been afraid to speak openly. But Systema Solar knows they have a public voice, and with that comes responsibility.

For them, It’s not just music: it’s a mission.