Beck vs. The Mae-Shi
The remixed Beck album Guerolito is out today and along with it’s sibling Guero is sure to see a top placing on my forthcoming Tinymeat Top Ten of 2005 list
From LA’s Mae Shi and Brad Beeck comes this tasty tidbit not found on the album
“Que Onda Guero (Team Shi Latino 96.3 Remix)”
Brad explains it like this.
So much of Beck’s ’90s output was a mythologizing of the 80s Los Angeles he grew up immersed in –lowriders, mariachi, turntables and microphones. Sure, it’s patronizing at times – “Odelay” was his gringo approximation of “orale,” as in “orale vato” – but for some, it’s the perfect whiteboy synthesis of pre-Rodney King Riots Los Angeles.
However, the sound of the city has changed. With this remix, local L.A. surprise punks The Mae Shi have tried to capture the sound of a summer in Los Angeles
in 2005 – the sound of Daddy Yankee selling out Staples Center, the sound of narcocorridos booming from the car next to you as you drive down Pico Blvd. This year saw a new radio station take over the streets of Los Angeles, Latino 96.3, a bilingual station “blazing reggaeton and hip-hop.” In the hot windows-down summer of 2005, the station was impossible to ignore, and its rise in public presence coincided with Daddy Yankee’s newfound ubiquity (as well as his ability to sell out Staples Center).
“Que Onda Guero (Team Shi 96.3 Latino Remix)” is The Mae Shi’s attempt to capture the sound of 2005 in the same way Beck captured the sound of 1985.
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Holy shit. The narcocorridos are something I’ve been following, but the combo with reggae is not. I am so in the Beck mindset and life…can’t wait to experience Mae Shi.
I too am a Beck follower. He is alright for a Scandinavian “white-boy”.
You and me both. He’s totally got the moves.
I won the “coolest sister in the world” award twice by taking my brother to see Beck on both his 16th and his 18th birthdays.
I heart Beck so hard.