Do you remember the first song you ever heard that gave you the incessant need to move your body in accordance? The first time a sound hit your ears in a way that was so exciting it left you a changed person?
It's a feeling I became so insufferably cynical towards, I thought that I knew what infectious music was, then Los Thuthanaka showed me something I didn't even have the concept of. Bolivian artists, Elysia Crampton and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton form Los Thuthanaka. A relatively newly formed musical project focused on showcasing the indigenous Aymaran sounds. These rhythms span centuries (even millenia) and have permeated throughout music all over the world.
This debut album, Los Thuthanaka, is a celebration of Aymaran music that eats electronic music alive and leaves it permanently changed within your ears.
My first listen to this album was eerily similar to my first listen to Discovery by Daft Punk when I was 10, I felt fascinated, deeply intrigued and electrified all throughout the entire hour runtime. Somehow, Pitchfork named this their favorite album of the year last year, (how I found it), but that feels like a sheer miracle for the creative decentralization taking place here. Abrasively groovy and unrelenting yet restorative music.
