{"id":33331,"date":"2020-11-22T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=records&p=33331"},"modified":"2020-11-22T05:48:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T10:48:42","slug":"shika-shika-5-years","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/shika-shika-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Shika Shika: 5 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Five years is a milestone that\u2019s noteworthy enough, especially for an independent label in trying times. Based in Berlin, the imprint is operated by Robin \u201cEl B\u00faho\u201d Perkins and Agust\u00edn \u201cBarrio Lindo\u201d Rivaldo, a pair of producers in their own right, English and Argentinean respectively though archetypal global citizens in truth. For the last half decade, they\u2019ve curated a catalogue of cool, comfortably lightweight downtempo jams that consistently impress with their character, their quality, and their artful balance of rawness and refinement. The equatorial heat and humidity is consistent, as the label taps talent focused in or on the cornucopia of musical cultures spilling from the coastlines of the Caribbean. Percolating percussion is ever present, and it\u2019s in there that one here\u2019s the proverbial \u201cartist\u2019s hand\u201d, as well as in the frequent raspy flutes, clattering marimbas, and plucking of guitar-like things. Perkins and Rivaldo close out 2020, a year that saw among other things the label\u2019s excellent endeavour for endangered birds<\/strong><\/a>, with a double LP looking back over their best moments. The lovely cumbia \u201cCanario\u201d (birds, always the birds!) by Mexico\u2019s Karen & Los Remedios is this writer\u2019s pick of the pack, it\u2019s from their Botanas<\/a><\/em><\/strong> EP of this past fall, though the numbers here are uniformly above average (that doesn\u2019t make sense, mathematically, does it\u2026). Here\u2019s to another five years of fine music ahead, and many more after that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n