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¿Un Ritmo Latino? Trying to Identify this Rhythm...

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Khalaq
(Senior Moderator)

When I first heard Never Ever by Tokyo Girls' Style, I thought the rhythm sounded Latin in origin, but I couldn't identify it. I just don't have enough experience with Latin music to be able to sort through all of the busyness of the background. I tried doing a little research online, but still couldn't find an answer. To me, it sounds like some kind of Samba variation.

Anyhow, I thought I would ask here on SteamGifts in the hope that we have some percussionists who recognize this beat.

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xarabas
(Junior Moderator)

Uhhh, what made you think of Latin at first? There are only two associations I get when listening to that link back and forth: synthwave and pop music from the '80. I just don't hear anything Latin there, hmmm

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Khalaq
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Uhhh, what made you think of Latin at first?

My first impressions were that it reminded me of Miami Sound Machine.

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pripkun

Just the sound of classical guitar and some batucada-like percussions. That gave you the idea of samba

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Khalaq
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Exactly. I'm not sure it actually is Batucada, however. That is simply my best guess.

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IovoI

Sounds like anything from early Enrique Iglesias to me

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Khalaq
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I might be wrong, but the instruments all sound synthesized. Talk about "generic".... The Japanese do a lot of sythesized music, so I suppose it wouldn't be unusual were it actually so.

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SaidAlsoKnowAs

it's little bit same music in the jesus scene of the big lebowski movie

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FG10

The guitar sounds like Flamenco to me.

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JonathanDoe

I think you nailed It.

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Khalaq
(Senior Moderator)

Sounds like it, doesn't it? What is your impression of the percussion?

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FG10

It does have a 90s Spanish feel to it at times (mostly at the beginning) but seems a bit generic to me, it's probably just to make the song sound more modern and playable at clubs.

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JonathanDoe

Well I feel like there's some spanish guitar vibes there but that's just me, when I listen to the track the first thing that comes to mind was this:
https://youtu.be/7qbEt_lSib4

I listened to this guy once and had to ask, great spanish guitar musician
https://youtu.be/Y5ERHDKgKZI

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kalil

It sounds a bit like this old song from Enrique Iglesias maybe n_n
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sye_VxmNZA

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oAxleo

Latino here.

I'm not a musician but I don't hear anything distinct or famous. Sounds like relatively generic or average fair 80s/90s latin music (which did include a lot of synth depending on the artist, say like something by Azucar Moreno like "Noche de Abril"). Not sure that helps.

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dchawk

Good
nice

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Khalaq
(Senior Moderator)

I'm not a musician but I don't hear anything distinct or famous.

If I understand what you said, there is nothing you can recognize as Samba, Salsa, Conga, Rumba, or any other well-known Latin rhythms. If that is true, then I guess that answers my question.

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oAxleo

Not sure if that was meant to sound sarcastic.

My context was a comment on finding a similar sounding song that happened to be famous or at least very similar, not on genre. For genre, you’d likely need a musician and they’d likely land at some sort of hybrid, if any at all as it’s likely something else at its core with influences of something Latin.

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Khalaq
(Senior Moderator)

I was not being sarcastic. As I mentioned in my OP, I have been trying to identify the rhythm used (i.e. the percussion section), not the style of the song. I apologize if I was not clear about that. Neither one of us are drummers, but I suspect that you are correct in it being some sort of hybrid, possibly something related to the Batucada.

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oAxleo

No worries, just thought I'd pretext in case I was answering while being tone deaf.

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MeeMesmo

That intro is a Spanish guitar

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StrawberryCrisis

I'm from Latin America but the beginning of the song sounds more like flamenco to me

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StraussVanDor

There is a lot going on in this track, but nothing Latin enough for me.

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