Guest DJ’s ThinkDifferent & Stereo.77(Filtered Sunshine Radio): Unfortunately we could not salvage any decent videoclips of the dynamic duo in action, but there will be a next time.

Hard at work:

Arroz Con Leche crowd doing what they do best:

Here’s a small recap of what happened that night:

Click here to view the embedded video.

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Here’s the photo album!

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Hey all!

Arroz con Leche is proud to announce our panelists for the “Social Media and Latin Music Panel”

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Moderator:

Andres Barreto: PulsoSocial

Founder and President of PulsoSocial.com, online publication and community that reports the latest on technology, social media and entrepreneurship from Latin America. Also created socialatom, a consulting firm for social media marketing and engineering, business development and international marketing that helps U.S. companies reach latin america and viceversa. Previously, founder of Grooveshark.com, an online music sharing community.

Follow at: LinkedIn , Twitter

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Luis Daniel Soto Maldonado: Microsoft

Luis enjoys life with his wife and 3 year old son in addition to the development of the Latin America software industry. His is responsible for technical evangelism to over 4M developers, IT professionals and  students. Luis Daniel leads the Software plus Service transformation and early adoption of new technologies in the region. He leads a group of over 100 evangelist focused on the region.

Follow at: Twitter

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Victor Kong : Cyloop/Hoodiny

Victor has more than 10 years experience in Media and Internet. Prior to joining Hoodiny, he was the Vice President and Managing Director for Latin America & US Hispanics for MySpace. In this role, Victor oversaw the roll-out of in Latin America and the US Hispanic market, opening offices in Miami, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, and Buenos Aires. Before MySpace, Victor was VP Strategy and New Media Development for MTV Networks Latin America. In this role, he was responsible for creating the network’s long-term business plans and finding new growth opportunities. He also was responsible for developing New Media revenue opportunities. Kong also held executive posts at Terra Lycos, where he was the Ecommerce Director in the US, Spain and Latin America, and at McKinsey & Company, Booz Allen and Hamilton and Citibank Latin America. A native of Uruguay, Kong holds a Masters in Business Administration with Honors from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in Economics and International Relations from Stanford University. Currently, he resides in Miami with his wife and children.

Follow at: Myspace

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Juan Cristobal Losada: Sonic Projects

Sonic Projects Inc. is a company committed to the music creation process in all of its aspects. Services ranging from Recording and Mixing to Songwriting, Production and Artist Development.

Founded in 2002 by Multiple Latin Grammy Award nominee and winning Engineer & Producer, Juan Cristobal Losada. Sonic Projects has participated in some of the most successful albums in today’s highly competitive music industry, in both the Latin and Anglo markets.

Follow at: http://sonicprojects.net/

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Carlito-Sway: PulsoBeat

Founder of Arroz con Leche and PulsoBeat. Carlito actively shares his music knowledge on PulsoBeat with other music lovers and helps them in turn find cool bands that at times get lost in the digital world. Having worked as an Audio Tech and Quality Assurance Engineer at many music related companies; Full Sail, M-Audio, Audio-One and The Hit Factory. Expect Carlito to explain things technically and show how to use it in the “Real World,” not only from a music perspective but from a Social Media point of view as well.

Follow at: Twitter, Myspace

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The first of many…

Arroz Con Leche: Social Media and Latin Music Panel

@ Transit Lounge- Friday, October 2nd- HAPPY HOUR from 6pm-10pm (2 for 1 drinks). Panel Starts at 7pm.

The panel will bring the brightest minds from the world of Latin music and the internet savy world of Social Media, to share best practices, ideas, challenges and opportunities surrounding the ever changing environment of music and technology.

RSVP: Facebook

We hope to go beyond the hype and learn how to leverage social media to increase revenue, manage conversations, gain exposure and make it big on the web with entertainment.

• Be informed of new ways  to make money with Social Media

• Panel will discuss challenges and opportunities from piracy, to licensing rights, e-commerce, mobile, marketing and much more!

• Video Premier of  Latin Hip Hop Artist -Ephniko- with his new song “ESO” followed by panel discussion

Format of Panel:

It will be a 40 minute discussion with a moderator and a 20 minute Q&A session with the audience.

Details:

Who: Panelist will be announced soon
What: Industry Panel of Music and Social Media experts
When: Friday October 2nd, 2009- HAPPY HOUR from 6pm-10pm. Panel Starts at 7pm. Social Networking from 8-10pm.
Where: Transit Lounge (Downtown Miami) 729 SW 1st Ave Miami, FL 33130
Why: We see a need for entrepreneurs and artists to learn how to use the new tools of social media to their advantage.

STAY AFTER THE PANEL FOR OUR GREAT NIGHT OF MUSIC WITH GEKO JONES>UPROOT ANDY AND EPHNIKO starting at 11pm!

Uproot Andy: http://www.myspace.com/andygillis

Geko Jones: http://www.myspace.com/gekojones

Que Bajo?! is a DJ Collective & Dance Party that consists of DJs Geko Jones (of Dutty Artz) and Uproot Andy (of Zizek, Bersa Discos).

In past years, whenever Latin and electronics met on a project, it was typically down-tempo stuff or too oontz ooontz ooontz for Que Bajo?!’s taste.

Que Bajo?! has been elevating the bar for dance music by taking influences from Africa, Latin America, & Europe and creating hot slices of a new dance movement they are calling Tropical Bass

What is Que Bajo?!……What does it mean ?????

Que Bajo?! is an outlet for Rare, Unreleased, Obscure Deep Tropical Bass Dance music w/ influences of traditional Afro Latin heat that is fused with the Rhythms and Urban/Electronic Contemporary sounds of Africa and Europe such as Dubstep, Electronica & Kuduro that won’t be heard for another couple of years from now.

Que Bajo?! is also renowned for Uproot Andy’s and Geko Jones’ Original Afro Latin Electronic Productions & Remixes.

Que Bajo?! literally means many things….if u said Que Bajo?! in Puerto Rico, you might be saying whats up. But it can also mean “how low ??? ” as in how low of a person can u be ????   Or it can also mean “how low can u get on the dancefloor” because you will get down and dirty at a Que Bajo?! Party.  However, my favorite is “what Bass ?” as in you’ll never know what type of Bass Que Bajo?! will be cooking up (from which country) as they will make you shake.

Geko Jones

Geko Jones (Pronounced gue-cojones in spanish) originally from Puerto Rico/Colombia via Brooklyn and Uproot Andy originally from Toronto via Brooklyn never realized how similar their taste were since coming from very different backgrounds.

They both met at one of Geko Jones‘ NY Tropical Parties in Brooklyn and realized they were to be destined to start a movement they are now labeling as Tropical Bass.    From Funana to Funky (from London) to Digital Cumbia to Dubstep to Mambo Violento to Garifuna to Kuduro.

When Geko Jones met Uproot Andy, they knew coming together would be a great thing, not just for New York, but for the worldwide Latin and non-Latin club scene.

Combined they have been spurring lots of buzz throughout the East Coast and the West Coast for their explosive Original DJ Sets ranging in fans from true-blue hipsters from Brooklyn to Hardcore Salsa dancers from Washington Heights to Straigh Kwaito Heads from Africa to CEOs to Hood Rats.  They have been breaking barriers and ground by Criss-Crossing scenes ….from hip hop heads to electro heads to salsa and cumbia heads to traditional african music heads all in the same room dancing !!!!!!!!!!

Uproot Andy

They have garnered the attention of Today’s Top Producers and Artists such as Diplo, Toy Selectah, Aterciopelados, Los Amigos Invisibles, Vampire Weekend, Paul Devro, Maluca, BLK JKS, Pacha Massive, Sidestepper, Radioclit, El Guincho, Nguzunguzu, Danger Mouse, Sabo, Nickodemus, Turntable Lab, The Mad Decent Family, Choc Quib Town and the list goes on and on.

Enough TALK! listen to -Uproot Andy Guacharaca Migration tracks

Sonic Projects and Paz came together at the beginning of 2009 to produce just a few of his many songs. Paz began playing guitar at the age of 10 and it wasn’t till he turned 24, that he began his journey as a composer.

With over 200 songs already written he decided to formalize and produce some of these songs onto an EP with the talented Juan Cristobal Losada of Sonic Projects Inc. Some of his influences are Fito Paez, Joe Satriani, Silvio Rodriguez, Juan Luis Guerra and Metallica; and it is from these influences that his songs were born.

His songs “are songs from the soul“, songs that try to transmit “tranquility & well being” as Paz himself states. Thats where his name comes from, in that he focuses on the lyrical content to also bring a positive message, a message of peace. Don’t miss Arroz con Leche on Friday Oct. 2 at Transit Lounge, but before then check out a small preview of some of Paz’ work and a short EPK right HERE.