Happy Colors is a Dominican DJ who is a leader among the new generation of latin electronic producers who work across genre boundaries. He embodies the Barrioteca concept bringing together different regional styles and EDM sounds for a modern globalized club community.

Happy Colors will be performing at the Que Bajo Barrioteca Tropical May 9th at Verboten in Brooklyn. Get your tickets at http://nyc.redbullmusicacademy.com/que-bajo-barrioteca-tropical

DJ Guaguis is Ali Gua Gua, the lead singer of the Kumbia Queers a powerful punk cumbia band out of Argentina and Mexico. With Kumbia Queers she as been spreading a unique brand of cumbia villera and sonidera sounds with a strong political message to new audiences across Europe and the Americas for years. As DJ Guaguis, she brings her Jarocho roots and globe trotting experience to the turntables.

She’ll be performing at the Que Bajo Barrioteca Tropical May 9th at Verboten in Brooklyn. Get your tickets at http://nyc.redbullmusicacademy.com/que-bajo-barrioteca-tropical

Pablito Mix is the pioneer of Mexico City’s new cumbiatón genre combining the long tradition of Mexico’s cumbia sonidera culture with the invading forces of reggaeton and dembow.

He is a among the most important DJs of Mexico City’s urban music scene, and he’ll be performing at the Que Bajo Barrioteca Tropical May 9th at Verboten in Brooklyn.

Get your pre-sale tickets now at http://nyc.redbullmusicacademy.com/que-bajo-barrioteca-tropical

Erick Rincon led the Tribal Guarachero movement from the underground clubs of Monterrey as a teenager before breaking the genre into mainstream radio with his crew 3ball MTY in 2011 with the smash hit ‘Intentalo’.

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He’s just old enough be allowed in the club here in NY but he’s playing to massive crowds all over the world and he’ll be performing at the Que Bajo Barrioteca Tropical May 9th at Verboten in Brooklyn. Get your tickets here: http://nyc.redbullmusicacademy.com/que-bajo-barrioteca-tropical

 

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This Wednesday, April 29th at our Dutty Artz Keeps Changing the Mood party at the Knitting Factory, we’ve got DJ Ripley stepping up to the decks to deliver her signature style: using music to celebrate people’s experiences across race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, highlighting the beauty of interconnecting global stories and rocking them into your body on the dance floor.

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