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Los Thuthanaka

With Los Thuthanaka, two siblings – Chuquimamani-Condori, who performed at Rewire 2024, and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, who performs at this year's edition – come together to take listeners into a parallel world of indescribable texture and rhythm. Like being dragged from the wrist by a giddy friend, Los Thuthanaka (2025), the duo's eponymous debut – one of the most impressive albums of the year – takes you into a crowd of sounds, where swirling snare drums, bombos, DJ tags, cheers, and whistles engulf you as the bass drums guide your feet forward. Referencing what they call ayni (or "reciprocity" in the Aymara language) to their community for giving them the gift of music, their huayño and caporal rhythms and melodies are emaciated by crusty noise and buried beneath layers and layers of all-consuming sound – creating a bit-crushed collage of hopeful mayhem and joy that draws on ancestral wisdom and traditional sounds while sounding completely new. Their utterly vibrant and undeniably colourful music sounds like plunderphonic experimentalism adapted for these hyper-active times, with a trigger-happy jester on sampler duties and a masterful prankster behind the percussion.