New!!! DJ Ren: Se Me Perdio La Cumbia

I grew up listening to cumbia, whether in my house, at parties, in my dreams....I mean cumbia has been a part of my life for a long time. The thing I love about cumbia is that unlike many of the other "Latin" genres, cumbia can sound very differently depending on its country or region of origin.

Growing up Salvadoran, I heard my fair share of cumbia tropical. Anything from Aniceto Molina, Los Hermanos Flores, and La Sonora Dinamita. However, I also listened quite a bit to Mexican cumbia (Celso Piña, Grupo Cañaveral, Grupo Megaton, Grupo Kual, Los Angeles Azules, etc) cause I used to work at the Alameda Swapmeet in a gift shop. Next door there used to be a music store that blasted all cumbia all day long.

My new mixtape, Se Me Perdio La Cumbia (I Lost the Cumbia) is a compilation...or more aptly put, an attempt to compile cumbia of various forms. They may not always gel nicely together but in the end they are family. Enjoy.

To download click here.

DJ Ren "Slowgasm"

It's amazing what parties can motivate you to do. Last week I attended a party where the challenge was to create a baby-making mixtape. I've always wanted to record this type of mix, but procrastination gets in the way.

Right around this time, a friend of mine started a Facebook group asking for a new DJ Ren mix. Now I could've gone the route of John Cusack from High Fidelity and put a series of songs together on a CD and burned them. But for starters, fuck John Cusack, and secondly I could use the relaxation of putting together a mixtape.

The result....my new mix titled Slowgasm.

Let me get something out of the way...yes a lot of the songs are painfully obvious. But I'm going for baby making here not a DJs wetdream.

So with that said use protection unless babies is what you're going for. To download click here.