Radiodiffusion Internasionaal Annexe

♬ Cumbia Arabe

Los Atomos de Paramonga were from Paramonga, Peru. They released six singles during their tenure, all for the Discos Sono Radio label which was based in the capital city of Lima. They were included on VampiSoul’s Cumbia Beat Vol. 1 and Analog Africa’s Saturno 2000 compilations. But beyond that, I have not been able to find much else about them.

When I originally started this blog, the original idea was to find indigenous music that had been contaminated by Western music – primarily rock ’n’ roll. But it’s records like this – a cumbia band trying to sound like like they’re from the Middle East – that I never considered. It hit me when I found a Mexican wrestler movie poster from Egypt. That’s when I realized that there were cultural influences from all over that have been cross-pollinating with other cultures around the world.

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CSatalog number 13270 on Discos Sono Radio of Peru, released 1974.