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Via SXSW.com: “Alice is reported to have a new album ready in time for SXSW with Quantic, (aka/Will Holland,) recorded with his band Combo Barbaro in Colombia. And Quantic has been announced as confirmed for SXSW, too.”
http://sxsw.com/node/9801 Read more
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MTV Hive talks Cumbia’s past, Quantic’s ‘The Original Sound of Cumbia’, Cumbia as influence in music with producers: Toy Selectah, JD Twitch, Uproot Andy as well as Mad Professor’s project with Colombian group (and Quantic-collaborator), Frente Cumbiero. And a great clip of Joe Strummer praising Andres Landero.
“Cumbia hasn’t suddenly become hip; cumbia was always hip.” – Will Holland Read more
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“Vintage Recordings of Colombian Cumbia” || Anchor Marco Werman speaks to Will Holland about the record hunt and where the sounds of cumbia come from. Read more
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The Original Sound of Cumbia (The History of Colombian Cumbia & Porro As Told By The Phonograph 1948-79 compiled by Quantic) – is OUT NOW. Read more
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“…he has preserved forever not just a time and place but a feeling. Gentle but impassioned, these CDs put history not in the museum but firmly in the middle of the dancefloor.” – Daily Telegraph
“The Original Sound of Cumbia: The History of Colombian Cumbia & Porro As Told By The Phonograph 1948 – 79” is OUT NOW via Soundway Records Read more
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Oliver Wang recently had Quantic by his LA studio for podcast #18 of his Soul Sides series, ‘The Sidebar’
“Quantic has had a remarkably prolific and diverse career over the last decade, all now captured in the new 32-song double-CD anthology, Best of Quantic. With that in mind, I asked Will about his history as a producer, beginning in his early years, recording sample-based beats for TV licensing, up through the formation of the Quantic Soul Orchestra, with his collaborations with Alice Russell and Spanky Wilson, and into his major shift into Afro-Latin styles of the last five years.” Read more
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Quantic premiered “Left & Right” ft Alice Russell on the Los Angeles Times Pop Hiss section…more from this collaboration soon! Quantic’s ‘Best Of’ is out now!
“It’s quintessential Quantic, an amalgam of old sounds and new ideas, dust meeting digital and yielding its own unique haze.” – LA Times Read more
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Check out this piece leading up to Quantic’s SOM-BAR show in San Francisco tonight!
“I wanted to really explore the side of music from Barranquilla and Panama City where you have bands playing soul, funk, salsa, cumbia, boogaloo … not necessarily one genre,” Quantic says. “What I appreciate in this music is that there’s tremendous diversity — culturally, ethnically, racially — and so many different rhythm experimentations.” Read more
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Read this in-depth interview with National Geographic touching on Quantic’s roots, his discovery/development with Latin music, the South American accordion greats he learns from, contemporary Colombian music camaraderie and future steps.
“It was just a natural evolution. I’m not a diehard salsa fan, I just like rhythm — something that South America has in abundance.” Read more
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Check out this review of Quantic’s ‘Best Of’ in Pop Matters…
“Because his catalog is so vast, it would be hard for a curious listener to figure out just where to begin in order to appreciate Quantic’s work. That’s why ‘The Best of Quantic’ is superb: It’s so perfectly chosen and sequenced that this is the Quantic album to begin with.” Read more
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“A mammoth retrospective of the producer’s wide spectrum of sounds… a hugely impressive body of work” – BBC Read more
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Will recently sat down with CMU for their ‘Same Six Question’ series to talk about the upcoming release of Quantic’s ‘Best Of’ (Out September 5th ROW; September 13th in USA) on Tru Thoughts… Read more
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Stream “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)” at Prefix Magazine and learn a little bit more about the release…. Read more
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‘Dre En Cumbia’ from the June 13th release ‘Hip Hop En Cumbia’ was recently featured on NPR’s Alt.Latino program… Read more
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Check out this Taschen ‘Funk & Soul’ photo book… Read more
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Check out this interview done on a recent visit to Chicago… Read more
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