El Sonidito

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El Sonidito
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Studio album by
Hechizeros Band
ReleasedDecember 16, 2008 (2008-12-16)
Genre Latin

El Sonidito is a 2008 Latin album by the regional Mexican band Hechizeros Band, best known for its title track.

Contents

Composition and production

The band, which comes from San Vicente, Nayarit, Mexico, [1] described its genre as a variety of Mexican and Latin rhythms involving keyboards and vocals, inspired by cumbia, quebradita, chicote, and genres including ranchera, banda, duranguense, norteño, corridos, and Latin ballads. [2] [3] They later called their genre "electrocumbia" and "technobanda" and likened their rowdy ("reventón") dance music production to Sinaloan rhythm bands with a synthesizer instead of brass. [1]

The album was released on December 16, 2008. [4] The band's first single was the title track, "El Sonidito," followed by "Sunguirungui" in 2009. [1]

As of mid-2009, the band was preparing for a tour of the United States. [1]

Reception

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The album debuted at #44 on Billboard's Top Latin Albums in early 2009. [5] The album first gained traction on public transport in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. [1] The title track became popular in Mexico and the United States, [1] rising to #33 in Billboard's Hot Latin Songs later in the month, [6] reaching #18 in March 2009. [7] The band received a gold record in July for their sales in the United States. [1]

The album's title song, which Billboard described as a novelty, came at a time when regional Mexican radio was playing more upbeat, wacky regional songs following Los Pikadientes de Caborca's "La Cumbia del Río," as compared to the radio's usual love songs and ballads (corridos). [8] The title track received harsh criticism on the Internet, which the band acknowledged on balance with supporters who appreciated their presentation as straightforward and honest. [1] The title track's inclusion in the 2013 game Grand Theft Auto V further popularized it. [9] [10] It had become the celebration track the Washington Nationals baseball team played after winning games by 2019, [9] [11] the year they won their first World Series. [12]

Artists and bands who covered the title track include Chicano Batman and Bruno Mars. [13] [14] [15] A popular parody video created in 2010 edited clips from the German rock band Rammstein to appear as if playing the title track. [16]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."El Sonidito (El Ruidito)"3:21
2."Energía Musical"3:30
3."Sueños Guajiros"3:18
4."Son Indígena"3:29
5."El Escandalito"4:17
6."Sunguirungui"2:57
7."Ordeñando la Vaca"3:10
8."La Máquina del Ritmo"3:05
9."Infidelidad"3:18
10."Te Quiero Tanto"3:50

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Obtiene Hechizeros Band Disco de Oro en EU por su álbum 'El sonidito'". Notimex (in Spanish). July 1, 2009. ProQuest   429001216.
  2. ↑ Sarabia, Martha (December 22, 2008). "Amarga navidad". La Opinión (in Spanish). Los Angeles, Calif., United States. ISSN   0276-590X. ProQuest   368405043.
  3. ↑ Henderson, Alex. "El Sonidito - Hechizeros Band AllMusic Review". AllMusic . Archived from the original on October 16, 2022. Retrieved December 31, 2024.
  4. 1 2 Henderson, Alex. "El Sonidito Review". AllMusic . Archived from the original on October 16, 2022. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
  5. ↑ "Vicente Fernández sigue defendiendo el primer lugar con álbum 'Primera fila': BILLBOARD (columna)". EFE News Service (in Spanish). January 8, 2009. ProQuest   433305812.
  6. ↑ "Aventura defiende primer lugar de Billboard con el tema 'Por un segundo': BILLBOARD (columna)". EFE News Service (in Spanish). January 29, 2009. ProQuest   433274541.
  7. ↑ "'Te presumo' de banda EL Recodo lidera lista de Hot Latin Songs de Billboard: BILLBOARD (Previsión)". EFE News Service (in Spanish). March 19, 2009. ProQuest   433389117.
  8. ↑ Ben-Yehuda, Ayala (February 7, 2009). "Looney Tunes". Billboard . Vol. 121, no. 5. p. 17. ISSN   0006-2510. ProQuest   227265275.
  9. 1 2 Fortier, Sam (September 30, 2019). "Nationals take care of business in season finale, will face Brewers in NL wild card". Washington Post . p. D1, D3. ISSN   0190-8286. Archived from the original on October 10, 2019. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
  10. ↑ Romero, Axel (April 1, 2017). "Soundtrack con toque mexicano". Reforma (in Spanish). p. 5. ISSN   1563-7697. ProQuest   1882779995. Nada como manejar un auto desenfrenadamente en Grand Theft Auto V al escuchar canciones ... "El Sonidito", de Hechizeros Band.
  11. ↑ Hernandez, Juan Carlos (October 2, 2019). "El Sonidito, himno de celebración de los Nationals". TUDN (in Mexican Spanish). Archived from the original on October 16, 2022. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
  12. ↑ Waldstein, David; Hoffman, Benjamin (October 30, 2019). "Nationals Win Their First World Series With One Last Rally". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 16, 2022. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
  13. ↑ Orozco, Gisela (April 10, 2017). "Cumbia, soul y 'El sonidito' con Chicano Batman". Hoy Chicago (in Spanish). p. 15. ProQuest   1944802100. Archived from the original on January 15, 2023. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
  14. ↑ "Bruno Mars toca 'El Sonidito' y se viste de mariachi en la Ciudad de México". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved August 9, 2024.
  15. ↑ González, Jazmín. "Este es el origen de la canción "El Sonidito" que se escuchó en el concierto de Bruno Mars en la CDMX". Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved August 10, 2024.
  16. ↑ López-Cano, R. (January–June 2020). "'The Who live in Sinaloa': videomemes musicales, punctum, contrapunto cognitivo y lecturas oblicuas". Revista Musical Chilena (in Spanish). 74 (233): 151–173. doi: 10.4067/S0716-27902020000100151 . ISSN   0716-2790. S2CID   225602148. ProQuest   2541382275.
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