For fans of: Rare Grooves / Unheard Genre Exploration

What they're saying: Sam Walker-Smart at Clash Magazine gives a great description of the genre spotlighted by Saturno 2000: “Rebajada in Spanish means “to reduce, to lower” and soon became the label for a scene pioneered by Mexican sound system operators who took traditional Cumbia beats and slowed them to create something easier to dance to. The result is at times hypnotic, eerie, futuristic, and utterly bizarre. In other words, it’s fantastic.” And John Lewis at Uncut had this praise for the record as an entry point for discovering Rebajada sounds: “The best introduction to this proto trip-hop is told by Saturno 2000: La Rebajada de Los Sonideros, a 15-track Analog Africa compilation… It’s gleefully disconcerting stuff.”

What we say: Rebajadas are slowed down cumbias from Mexico, a chopped & screwed cumbia if you will. Compiled by the always excellent Analog Africa label.