{"id":15736,"date":"2014-08-01T10:01:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T15:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/?p=15736"},"modified":"2016-03-30T11:34:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T16:34:47","slug":"colombian-music-sidestepper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2014\/08\/colombian-music-sidestepper\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian Music Friday: Sidestepper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s August and it&#8217;s Friday: the <strong>first day of the month and the last of the working week!<\/strong> The Perfect Storm of wonderfulness! It doesn&#8217;t get much better than that: <a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2014\/07\/august-in-colombia\/\" target=\"_blank\">August is an amazing month to travel in Colombia<\/a>, so <strong>we&#8217;ve got that to celebrate<\/strong>; and Friday is generally acknowledged as a pretty good celebration day. So, to sum up, we&#8217;re all pretty happy here at See Colombia Travel towers, so we thought we&#8217;d bring you some fun music to brighten your day too!<strong> Introducing&#8230;Sidestepper.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sidestepper were born in 1996, as a collaborative project between <strong>English DJ Richard Blair and Colombian singer-songwriter Ivan Benavides<\/strong>. They are seen by many as the originators of &#8216;electro-cumbia&#8217;, and their former members have included members of <strong>Bomba Estereo and ChocQuibTown,<\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2014\/07\/colombia-music-pernett\/\" target=\"_blank\">Humberto Pernett.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their music takes influence from popular Colombian folkloric genres such as <strong>salsa, cumbia and bullerengue<\/strong>, as well as electronic music like dub and drum &#8216;n&#8217; bass. We&#8217;re going to spoil you with TWO videos from the group. <strong>The first is for their song &#8216;Deja&#8217;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ns_HUjOWBo4\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoy it?! Good, here&#8217;s another.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7qCNuvyPZpM\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully those songs have <strong>brightened up your Friday<\/strong> and got you ready for a fun weekend, and an amazing August. If you like Sidestepper, the good news is that August is going to get even better: <strong>the band will play Bogota&#8217;s Rock al Parque<\/strong> which takes places over <a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2014\/07\/bogota-rock-al-parque-lineup\/\" target=\"_blank\">three days from August 16-18<\/a>. See you there down the front!<\/p>\n<p>Chris<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It&#8217;s August and it&#8217;s Friday: the first day of the month and the last of the working week! The Perfect Storm of wonderfulness! 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