El Tipo Este Y Al Quetz La Revancha De La Manana

1st album of the new label Pura Vida Sounds founded by Guts - El Tipo Este is a pioneer of Hip Hop in Cuba and founder of Obsesion, one of the most notable band of hip hop movement in Cuba - Al Quetz is a french beatmaker. He did collaborations with Guts, Onra, La Fine Equipe...On this Caribbean island that is Cuba, El Tipo is a pioneer of Hip Hop. The founder of Obsesion group with he has committed three albums, traveled Europe, Latin America, United States. He has invested the mythical scene Apollo Theater of Harlem, shared the stage with The Roots, Common or Kanye West, integrated the Gilles Peterson’s band for the Havana Culture Tour. In the world of beatmaking, Al Quets (originally known as Quetzal) is a figure. An instrumental designer who cut, loop, program, cadence, compose. A name marked by 5 albums and collaborations with Onra, Guts, La Fine Equipe ou Milk Coffee and Sugar. Between the French beat maker and the cuban MC, there’s thousand of kilometers but a desire to connect so strongly that no force could have prevented the meeting. So, rather than exchanging digital files, Al Quetz preferred swallowing on the same frequencies. Together they drew on all the musical currents of the island and around, absorbed Afro-Cuban sounds, added the freedom of jazz, the metronome of hip hop grooves, smoking iddims and heavy bass of the Jamaican neighboor.