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Wire playlist: Bogotá’s Chúpame El Dedo in context
October 2025
Juan San Cristóbal Lizama speaks to the Colombian duo Chúpame El Dedo to compile a playlist of music from Bogotá’s lively cumbia scene
Annotated playlists, exclusive mixes, album previews and more.
Juan San Cristóbal Lizama speaks to the Colombian duo Chúpame El Dedo to compile a playlist of music from Bogotá’s lively cumbia scene
Juan San Cristóbal Lizama compiles an annotated playlist to accompany his report on Tijuana’s Static Discos label in The Wire 493
In his Global Ear feature in The Wire 486, Juan San Cristóbal Lizama explores cumbia rebajada – a musical subgenre derived from Colombian and Mexican cumbia that emerged in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. Here, he gathers a playlist of both pivotal and recent examples, some chosen by key players within the genre