Sonido La Changa | Boiler Room SYSTEM CDMX: Sonidero Special

All eyes on Mexico City. Last year we dropped in as part of our SYSTEM series to shine a light on the city's rich soundsystem scene, handing the mic over the sonideros keeping the culture alive.

Presented by Havana Club.

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[ikercallejasg]

If anybody is wondering what’s happening or does not understand this Boiler Room set, here is something you might wanna know before hand.

The Sonideros started way back, around the 50’s-60’s.
in different parts of Mexico City, initially as some type of “Block Party”
The function of the Dj is not to “mix” songs as in a club but to also entertain the public and send greetings by request (as you can see the guy on the right side of Don Ramón is holding a phone with the requests from different people.)

There are multiple types of sonideros ranging from Tropical Music, salsa-cumbias, to rock music.

The sonideros are always evolving but maintaining it’s roots as a party, later in the 80-90’s the high energy movement started to take more relevance and shifting to electronic music.

Swapping from using just radios or vinyl players to the current digital players as years went by.
You could say this paved the way for the Disc jockey movement before it was even a thing.

Being different from the origins of Hip-Hop and how the electronic music started, it was not intended for Clubs, but for parties with neighbors, family and friends on your block or yard.

So, welcome to our block :)

[JuliocesarRodríguez-oq]

Venia buscando techno obscuro y encontré oro brillante!

[luisrodolfolezamagonzalez]

Creo que no pude encontrar mejor video a las 3:00 AM estando marihuano

[mariomera]

My dad used to listen to Changa Mix tapes. I thought it was the most annoying thing ever. Hearing Changa every 10 seconds not being able to hear the songs without a Changa interruption, the shout outs to people I would never meet. None of it made sense to me. Then it slowly grew on me. I memorized all the times Changa would break the mix and all the different Changa sounds, I would shout out the strangers, I started adding my own shout outs. It became my favorite thing to listen to on the weekends. Seeing them with their own boiler room is unreal.

[jlfl]

The European mind cannot comprehend this.

[Antknino]

El mejor día para Boiler Room, un día cualquiera para Sonido La Changa.

[ulisesperez]

Ellos realmente fueron los primeros Djs en Mexico. La Changa inició en 1968 y ya había sonideros desde los años 50s. Los Djs de música disco, high-energy, italodisco iniciaron hasta los 70s y House en los 80s.

[nicolashuerta]

For those asking about the track list for all the genres he played
Minute:
10: changa Cumbia
20: changa salsa
Rest: Changa

[Soyjorgebostich]

Set list:

0:22 - Guacharaca la Reina de la Cumbia - Gerardo Xique y su Ritmo Bakan
5:26 - Idilio - Willie Colón
12:04 - La Pava Congona · Andrés Landero y su Conjunto
17:34 - Verdades - Hansel Camacho
19:11 - Dímelo - Tito Rojas
25:00 - Vanidad - Rodolfo Aicardi Feat Los Hispanos
32:22 La Cumbia Campanera - Sonido La changa
40:14 - Entrega - Grupo Niche
46:10 - No quiero saber más de tus besos - Frankie Marcos
53:28 - La Charamusca - Sonido La Conga
1:00:38 - LA FILOMENA - DjYimiiProduccer
1:05:46 - Revoltijo De Cumbia - Sonido La Changa

Y puro peñón de los baños, Moctezuma, Candelaria y Mixcoac. 😎🎧🇲🇽 🇲🇽👌
1:10:18 - El Baile de San Juan · Grupo La Chomba.

[julianpalacios]

Colombia y México son uno solo, gracias parceros y hermanos mexicanos. Saludos desde Colombia.

[johny]

We got La changa at boiler room before GTA 6 😭

[tiffanygonzalez]

The unseasoned minds cannot understand how legendary this is

[gentleandkind]

I am absolutely intoxicated by the guy. Great tunes, posi-vibes. Greetings from rural Australia.

[natrompy]

Esto es surrealista, nunca imagine ver al sonido CHANGA... que chingón, mis respetos por que son un referente cultural de la música que se escucha en el barrio popular, el sonidero. y aunque no lo dicen tanto LA CHANGA es orgullo mexicano. Boiler Room solo falta PolyMarch

[rcrd]

As a Mexican I never thought I'd see this OG Dj from Mexico city on boiler room. He definitely deserves more recognition 👏

[RamzyTheDad]

This is pure DJing in it's form. No mixing needed, just straight song selection and party vibing. WOW MUCH RESPECT, OG!!!

[tomekzski]

Boiler room diversifying their portfolio and I aint mad about it

[andresccpm]

La cultura mexicana en muy diversa, ver a un señor de esa edad tocando música desde un mixer, es otro nivel! el gran Ramón Rojo La Changa.

[ddrrafa]

Songlist:

Willie Colón - Idilio
Andres Landeros - La pava congona
Tito Rojas - Dimelo
Rodolfo Aicardo - Vanidad
Aniceto Molina - El Campanero
Grupo Niche - Entrega
Gustavo Palacios - No quiero saber mas de tus besos
Los corraleros del majahual - La charamusca
Guaracha - La filomena
Revoltijo de cumbia -Cumbia con Arpa, Los pajaritos, los clarinetes (Cumbia Mashup?)
La chomba - Tusucheando el anaco (La cumbia de San Juan)

Que sabor!!

[impresionesD]

Historicamente hablando es underground y por lo tanto es merecedor de un boiler room. Pero a la vez es muy surrealistas. Gracias Boiler Room. Cada vez se lucen mas