Hacha y Machete's "Esto Es el Guaguanco"

Victor and Burju of Hacha y Machete performing to Cheo Feliciano's Esto Es el Guaguanco at their fundraiser.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• hacha
• machete
• victo
• burju
• salsa
• mambo

[Obataladance]

They are not cubans..i wonder fromwhere they come from..just curiosity..

[marcparris]

Victor is Latino. I am not sure from where though. Burju is Turkish.  Both amazing dancers.

[marcparris]

For those who keep writing and telling me that this is not Guaguanco, I know! Esto Es el Guaguanco is the name of the song by Cheo Feliciano!

[otijomfast]

no es guaguanco!

[hazerava]

Sabemos que es guaguanco,y sus raices.Igual que es Salsa,sus cadencias,etc;mas lo que hace EXTRAORDINARIO este video es la adaptacion y capacidad artistica para INTERPRETAR;que NO es un guaguanco,sino el nombre de la cancion.Ellos adaptaron hip hop y otras tecnicas.Eso es lo bello del ARTE?.Porque siempre los artistas y genios son mal criticados?.NADIE,puede decir que estos chicos no son bailarines profesionales y es OBVIO que tambien saben bailar salsa.Personalmente yo les aplaudo,felicito

[super44nova]

@lhaire :) ok to each their own, cuban just resonates with me.. it goes deep to my soul.. same feeling i get when i listen to quality music of old.. and no i didn't present as fact, it was just a simile :D i love pizza too, cheers

[SkullBeneath]

@lhaire

The thing is, the "modern" sound that you speak of, is actually 60s, and 70s arrangements, so, quite old I would say!! "Modern" cutting edge son-derived music (i'm gonna refrain from saying salsa here) is what they call timba in cuba.Its big in europe, but hardly gets airplay in the US because well, everything cuban is banned lol. Also, it's very hard hitting and not traditional at all (fuses jazz,hip hop, etc..) so the "traditionalists" (all the on2s) don't care much for it.

[lhaire]

@sliLIFE I think the "song/singer" is saying Este es guaguanco............not the people dancing to it. They are just expressing themselves to the rhythm of the song..........not necessarily identifying with the words of the song. You should be griping at Cheo for singing a salsa song and calling it guaguanco.

[lhaire]

@SkullBeneath On one hand I can definitely understand their frustration. I would imagine Dominicans feel the same way about the bastardization of bachata into this modern day, side to side, grind fest on the floor by Americans. But, that's what happens. The same thing happened to Jazz and Rhythm & Blues with Rock and Roll, Rap etc. Things get morphed over time and take on their own separate identity. I know and respect the roots...but as a dancer prefer a more modern sound.

[SkullBeneath]

@lhaire

If you name a video "esto es el guaguanco" and you're dancing something completely made up, you're gonna get criticized, simple as that, call the video new york style or whatever. Like someone naming a video ballet and dancing hip hop in it, what's so hard to undersand about that?

[SkullBeneath]

@lhaire

if your opinion on improvement of music is rerecording old tracks over and over (oscar d'leon and fania made a killing with old aragon, benny,matancera and matamoros songs) and making the arrangements SIMPLER (getting rid of the walking bass that arsenio brought to the table, taking instruments such as guiro out of arrangements) renaming the music "SALSA" so that the poor poor people wouldn't have to take time to understand the different rhythms, then i feel bad for you.

[SkullBeneath]

@lhaire

A lot of people prefer the new york derived sound to the original cuban bands, a lot of people prefer modern cuban timba to NY sound. the only fact is that New York sound is more americanized,commerical, less "afro" than the product that comes straight from the island. In cuba these rhythms are culture, in new york and everywhere else theyre a novelty...so you gotta understand where cubans are coming from when people use their music and rhythms and just do whatever with it.

[lhaire]

@super44nova Oh I wasn't referring to "current" salsa. I am talking about salsa that came out of the barrios of New York, PR, Colombia and Peru from the 70s/80s. To "me" (again, my opinion) I think it's better than original Cuban salsa. "Maybe Pizza Hut isn't better but yet more consumed"........but a lot of other things (cars, airplanes, scuba gear....etc) are not only used more - but it is now BETTER. I just hate when people present opinions as facts. Pizza? Now I'm hungry ;-)

[Debbiefiguera]

ellos no estan bailando guaguanco!!!!!!!

[super44nova]

@lhaire i am not sure if Pizza Hut improved the original pizza from Naples. But a heck a lot more people consume Pizza Hut pizza.. same goes to current salsa.