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The Red Bull Music Academy is a global music institution committed to fostering creativity in music. We celebrate music, its culture, and the transformative minds behind it. Begun in 1998, the Academy has taken the core principles that underlie its annual workshop for selected participants and applied this curatorial approach to events, lectures, and city-wide festivals throughout the year.
Click the CC icon for subtitles! Follow digital cumbia pioneers Dengue Dengue Dengue! deep into the Amazon in Peru to meet psychedelic cumbia legends Los Wembler's de Iquitos and collaborate on new music. Along with DJ and promoter Alfredo Villar and the Wemblers themselves, the Dengues share valuable insight into the history and evolution of Peruvian chicha and psychedelic cumbia music throughout the journey.
In their 2014 Red Bull Music Academy about humorous visuals, the duo talked cumbia, psychedelic masks, Ayahuasca ceremonies, and more. TOPICS: 08:51 - Their start 09:36 - Cumbia music 28:03 - Ayahuasca 37:00 -Peru in the '80s 1:13:15 - The masks 1:19:56 - Criollo MUSIC: 5:12 - Dengue Dengue Dengue!