Picking It Up Again: L.A.'s Latin American Ska Scene

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  • Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
  • Though it may not enjoy the alt-rock radio dominance it had in the mid-1990s, ska ain't dead. In fact, it's enjoying quite the renaissance in south Los Angeles, where a community of Latin American musicians and fans are bringing global sounds and a DIY ethic and aesthetic back into the music. We met scene figurehead Clemente Ruiz to get an inside perspective on how a new generation is making ska the sound of their culture.
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Комментарии • 46

  • @TheGoodContent37
    @TheGoodContent37 7 лет назад +18

    I mark this day as the day I found your insanely awesome channel in the ocean that is youtube. Now excuse me, I'll continue to binge watch all your videos.

  • @leapintothewild
    @leapintothewild 7 лет назад +5

    It would've been nice to extend the video so we could actually HEAR the music you were talking about...

  • @nedisahonkey
    @nedisahonkey 7 лет назад +10

    Ska and Soul are the best music genres of all time. Im so obsessed I have a tattoo of Jimmy cliff from the harder they come on my leg haha

    • @nedisahonkey
      @nedisahonkey 7 лет назад

      First wave Ska only though. There is some decent later Ska but it's just a shallow shadow of an imitation compared to the originals.

    • @iamhughmun
      @iamhughmun 7 лет назад

      Ned Gold no rock and metal are

    • @nedisahonkey
      @nedisahonkey 7 лет назад

      iamhughmun Nope you're wrong there. Good genres but not the best.

    • @iamhughmun
      @iamhughmun 7 лет назад

      Ned Gold to me rock and metal are the best jazz is second then blues

    • @nedisahonkey
      @nedisahonkey 7 лет назад

      iamhughmun Haha that's the beauty of opinions! But seriously if this is your first exposure to Ska you should branch out, old Ska hardly sounds like this. My favorite band is Toots and the maytals or you could listen to the best soundtrack of all time, which is the soundtrack for the film The Harder they come

  • @TowersPreston
    @TowersPreston 7 лет назад +19

    Someone send this to Bruce Greene ASAP

  • @ThisRainbowLife
    @ThisRainbowLife 7 лет назад +4

    Wow right! I forgot all about ska... This was an awesome video!

  • @sehajt
    @sehajt 7 лет назад +10

    where's Bruce Greene from +Funhaus when you need him

  • @enriquerivero2951
    @enriquerivero2951 6 лет назад +2

    Ska is well and alive in Latin America...

  • @justazael1553
    @justazael1553 7 лет назад +1

    La Maldita Vecindad used to be the best. One of the most famous song was Pachuco

  • @movingforward9555
    @movingforward9555 7 лет назад

    Great! the 90's are back.

  • @lindaragsdale6958
    @lindaragsdale6958 3 года назад

    I was hoping to find MMFM, but this is cool thought maybe MMFM had an influence to the other bands.

  • @kevinvicks5349
    @kevinvicks5349 7 лет назад

    Absolutely love it.

  • @sabinoortega1234
    @sabinoortega1234 5 лет назад

    Hey Clemente remember "follow me home foo"

  • @redemptiongoes6030
    @redemptiongoes6030 6 лет назад +1

    He’s not wrong :) .

  • @ApagaLaLuzz
    @ApagaLaLuzz 7 лет назад +1

  • @AldoOjeda
    @AldoOjeda 7 лет назад +3

    I think latin americans, from Argentina to the latin community in USA, took Ska and made it their own, bigger and better.

  • @lewisperez6469
    @lewisperez6469 7 лет назад

    That's my block lol but good vid

  • @sudareya
    @sudareya 7 лет назад

    What is the band name at first in this movie?

  • @2robot1
    @2robot1 7 лет назад +1

    I see a lot of people in the scene hate that clemente guy.

    • @BlahBluBlu69
      @BlahBluBlu69 7 лет назад

      compLex with a capital L why?

    • @2robot1
      @2robot1 7 лет назад +2

      Not too sure honestly, i just heard a lot of people say fuck that guy from a lot of promoters and bands, i know of one incident where he told a band one their members couldn't play his skawars event or whatever its called cause one of the band members said something bad on his event page.

    • @robz75rr
      @robz75rr 6 лет назад

      At the end of the day he’s doing what’s keeping the ska scene alive in legit ways here in LA

  • @esclavodelgrind
    @esclavodelgrind 5 лет назад

    “Ska with Latin flavour” is almost like a mock

  • @ThesiKCOne661
    @ThesiKCOne661 7 лет назад

    What is SKA

    • @lewisperez6469
      @lewisperez6469 7 лет назад

      siKC One The Great I would say like reggae and punk but I'm not sure but it's live 🔥

    • @nedisahonkey
      @nedisahonkey 7 лет назад +3

      Lewis Perez Only second and third wave Ska has punk influence. Basically Ska is a form of popular music in Jamaica that directly led to the genre of reggae. For instance Bob Marley and the wailers were originally a Ska band.

    • @nedisahonkey
      @nedisahonkey 7 лет назад +1

      siKC One The Great Youre also likely to br familiar with Sublime who are a third wave Ska band.

  • @yeltsincutt6861
    @yeltsincutt6861 7 лет назад

    Who's that on the lower left with the striped shirt @ 0:57 ??😭🔥 beauty.

  • @Anthony419o
    @Anthony419o 7 лет назад

    Go to Africa and make one vid

  • @shauntourkhan8295
    @shauntourkhan8295 7 лет назад

    2

  • @NPGLAMB
    @NPGLAMB 5 лет назад +1

    Voodoo glow skulls started it.

  • @shilpakuhikar5403
    @shilpakuhikar5403 7 лет назад

    ho

  • @tomjiang546
    @tomjiang546 7 лет назад +1

    first like

  • @hudson6940
    @hudson6940 7 лет назад +1

    First

  • @Lu-cg9lo
    @Lu-cg9lo 7 лет назад

    Fun fact Ska, Reggaeton and Hip Hop have Jamaica to thank for the music