Turbo Sonidero – Lowrider Kumbias

Dedicated to ESSJ and all the East Sides/Varrios in California and the barrios cumbiamberos in San Luis Potos, Mexico City, and Puebla. Also, to my primo Chuche Salgado from LCG. Thank you to my parents Esther Zepeda Dominguez and Ramon Zepeda for all their sacrifices. S/O to El Rancho Verde and Las Casitas Apartments.

Hua Hsu writes in the New Yorker, Lowrider culture dates to the nineteen-forties, when young Mexican Americans in Los Angeles began lowering their cars to cruise in style. Starting in the sixties and seventies, the sound for these slow, styled-out crawls through the city was the oldie, whether it was the blissful harmonies of soul music or doo-wop. “Lowrider Kumbias is the San Jose producer Turbo Sonideros contemporary tribute to the music he heard while growing up. Just as his forebears tinkered with the hydraulics of their classic American cars, he retrofits classics like Gene Chandlers Duke of Earl or Bren