Amansalocos is a hip hop group with influences of third wolrd life-style, cumbia attitude and electronic dub music.
We are working in having a history.
Yeah. We play live and we wear moustache. naked stuff, lots of excess and fun.
hip hop music in general, punk rock artists from south america and cumbia music feeling.
Amansalocos uses all kind of synth created melodys, acustic music, readymade remixes and noises captured in the third world.
Amansalocos is the name of the new sensation of latin American hip hop music. This duet of "cordobeses" spread their message taking part in one of the newest tendences in music diffusion, using strategically internet possibilities, mainly trough various web sites, this argentinian group offers their complete discography in mp3 format as a gift to music enthusiasts. The label (hundred percent indie) who publishes their EPs, supports this method, wich is also used by other hip hop and electronic artists who cannot afford a big publicity campaign, the so called "independent" are allowed by the net to come closer to their public, in this case to give them music for free. Amansalocos is the new sensation of the Latin American hiphop. They spread "tha message" taking part in one of the newest tendencies in music diffusion, but the message itself its in this case the main key to listening them. But what does make them different to other hip hop latin groups? Some say that their intensity coordinated with "spiritual aggression" by means of certain sense of humor, others agree that their music's, characterized by a primitive simplicity that reminds old punk rock days back when bands like Fun People (Born in the Buenos Aires Hardcore movement) and Flema (referent of lots of punk rockers) with lots more of hip feeling and with new century perfume and flavor of banana country (third world) reality. Amansalocos dont deny their inspiration, but they allways like to make clear statements and "explain" theirselfs. "We are hip hop atheists" they say. In fact, theyre more that attitude from end of the century with the hip hop drum and basses, they add the salty "cumbiero" feeling (with happy ghetto references) raggaton "attemps" and the main concept: "postdictatorship", reflected in all their lyrical proposal. If latin american social reality is characterized by so-called fragmentation, the musical composition of this young Argentineans propose is very realistic and maybe in excess for conservative ears around the world. Mixing all kinds of sounds, electronic synth created melodies and acustic instruments, stealing and remixing music made before (with out permission) and with colaboration of so called "artist losers from argentina" who record guitars with a home computer microphone plus all kinds disloyal sound manipulation Amansalocos is here to stay for long and make a difference in latin hip hop. What does Amansalocos means? Its some kind of compound of words, "Amansar" (some kind of "tranquilizer, to tame") and "Locos" ("crazy"), also makes reference to the truncheon or police stick. "We know that the rock magazines pay to snob journalists so that they lie and say stupidities, adorn with pretty words the absolut nothing." Trying to hit us with their baseball bat, Het is hier erg mooi, You have to listen this group!! In the last decade, not much hip hop duets emerged from south america, and few groups get majors support. Mtv on air let some Chilean and Argentinian (Sindicato Argentino de Hip Hop) groups consacrate and get a considerable place in music charts, also groups like Peyote Asesino seduced with hip hop attitude, but they lacked of this sharp attitude, escorted by musical transgression and the going beyond aesthetic and political clishes that hip hop music usually finds hard to come off from. While I listen to their songs I wonder if they got out the limits of the genre, but cant find an answer, maybe its not an smart question to ask.