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Slow speed heist, with lots of pauses for fitchecks, an extraterrestrial mission to another planet party propelled by physical motion, or just a way too faded under the bridge party that popped off on text; these are but three of the scenarios where this anti-obvious genre bending mixtape by DoloRRes & cherry chola feels best fitted for. A true walkabout of latin cross genre pop, this mixtape is a downhill run of vibes, jarring at time, off balance but pure fun momentum. Wanting to know how we can fit into the Jacuzzi as well, we reached out via flip phone to find out more: 

1. SI

DoloRRes: This is one of the earlier tracks we made around April 2023. It’s mainly based around a Coldplay sample of the song “Yes” from Viva La Vida, which is where this song gets its name lol. I opened up a very simple, early version of the beat in a session with Cherry Chola, JUPiTA & bbsanii, we recorded all of our verses pretty much then and there, sanii then took the beat home with them and added a lot of percussive elements and fleshed out the bass sounds. the original mix for this song was fucked though because we had the bass turned up so much that any time an 808 would come in the entire track would duck for a few seconds, sounded terrible live lol. Fun fact: there is an alternate DnB version of this song which landed on an EP by bbsofii (bbsanii & JUPiTA) & Cherry Chola back in July 2024. The first line to open the entire album is an IDF diss. “I stopped using Waze, I cannot support Israel”

Cherry Chola: My lyrics in ‘SI’ are inspired by escaping into my own little world & having my head in the clouds , focussing on the cute things & fantasies instead of trying articulate the complexities of my dark twisted mind. :3

JUPiTA - I love both versions of "SI" dearly! All these songs were created so closely and fluidly. To be honest, this is one of my favorite tracks to play live—the production and hook are so simple, yet each verse creates its own world.

2. AL MENO (ft. Agung Mango)

DoloRRes - This song was also produced and recorded whilst me and Cherry Chola were still living in Melbourne, AUS in 2023. Agung Mango happened to be at my house on the day I think this was just another impromptu session, the beat is basically like 3 seperate ideas brought into one, wanted to production to be very bombastic on this to compliment all these different sections clashing and mixing together, there’s also a sample of a running water tap that loops pretty much throughout the entire song. 

We recorded the whole thing in one session again with this one. I was looking to make a party anthem but with nihilistic and cynical overtones, something intoxicating but grim simultaneously which led to the chorus being like “everytime, in every neighbourhood, those who smoke, those who drink, soon it all ends…”

Agung Mango, in the bilingual spirit, contributed some Balinese lyrics which centre around this theme of sugar and dependency as a metaphor. I spent ages trying to get the synth bass to sound like a lil John track. This is my attempt at a Crunk/Reggaeton crossover 

Cherry Chola - experiencing god through the material world <3 my holy trinity is my diamanté bag, my pink blunt & lip gloss - all things that make me feel bliss & adoration, and I believe worshipping beauty brings us closer to god. also I feel like being a hyper feminine girl who is into beauty sometimes people dismiss u as shallow or empty or put u into a box so the lyrics is kind of saying suck my dick to those people coz I can be many things at once <3

3. DISTAL (REMIX) ft. JUPiTA 

DoloRRes: This is the first song me, JUPiTA and Cherry ever made together, I wanna say March 2023? it’s a remix of the song “Distal RKT” by DNGDNGDNG & Prisma. JUPiTA showed me this song along with a lot of other cumbia-adjacent music from Chile which has this slow, off-kilter triplet rhythm that I loved .So I basically sampled a loop of the track and added in my own drums and then a beat switch in the second half, divided by a short bridge where she lends her vocals. This song was also a flash in the pan kind of session, finished and recorded in one go. A lot of the time with these songs they kind of just take on a life of their own and eventually they finish themselves. I try not to interfere with that.

Cherry Chola: Reminiscing on a time of adventures, playing with fire & being a mischievous kitty. Inspired from all my hotboxing memories and driving around boring suburbia looking for fun <3 

JUPiTA: During this specific session with DoloRRes, I nerded out on Cumbia, especially one of my favorite producers, Dengue Dengue Dengue. In less than two weeks, we had smashed out these songs, sampling tracks that were close to me. That’s what makes collaboration so important to me—being able to fuse inspiration from different cultures and languages to create something authentic in itself. Cherry and DoloRRes’ conversation verse kills me every time—watching them record it was so dope. We were really just coming up with anything. I didn’t lay down much on that song, but it was all I needed to say.

4. Notte In Metro

DoloRRes: This is maybe my favourite song on the project, everything about it is so moody and cinematic and the drums and bass is so dialed in. I love the subtlety and the progression of the sounds.

This was originally a kind of ambient track, probably the first thing I made when I got to Milan, this would have been October 2023, the weather was extremely dreary and I was staying in this room high up above the Darsene river, was listening to A LOT of Space Afrika, Dean Blunt, gothic classical music. So I just was playing around with synth patches and trying to learn how to make a LOG bass on serum cos I wanted to get this specific tone u get on some amapiano records but also a lot of music coming out of the Dominican Republic.

The main inspiration came from taking the metro in Milan all the time, the train makes this very specific sci-fi kind of noise when speeds up and slows down, sounds almost like a ray gun powering on, and also it was raining a lot, so you can hear a bunch of field recordings I took on my phone just from around the city, mainly in the intro and outro of the song where you can kind of make out this phone conversation between me and cherry chola but I thought it would be cool if you only heard her side of the convo at the begging and then my side of the same conversation at the end of the song, as if we are both on seperate trains at the same time.

The chorus contains an interpolation of the song “Megamix” by Jovanotti. The phone call skit was maybe the last thing we recorded for the mixtape. Cherry sent her vocals from Mexico whilst I was back in Australia getting ready to mix the album 

Cherry Chola: inspired by glittery chaotic nights that are messy but dreamy and u feel like ur floating and not even a text from a loser ex could bring u down <3

5. SPINA

DoloRRes: This song came from a session I did with Padova-born and Milan-based producer No Label around like November 2023. I had gone to this club event the night before which was held in the basement of an Egyptian restaurant about 20 minutes out of Milan, it was wild they had a full live band and belly dancers. Anyway I recorded some of the keyboard players solo on my phone, we took that recording, half timed it, that became the main loop for the song. 

No Label also introduced me to this forgotten electronic genre which originated in Italy in the late 90s called Lento which is basically like really heavy hardstyle, slowed down to like 80-90bpm. He’s been resurrecting this kind of stuff for a while in the local scene and he handled the majority of the production on the track, my contributions are mainly the synths around the chorus and some final composition tweaks. I love how monstrous the kick on this song is, this song is soooo kick.

No Label: I randomly met DoloRRes in November 2023 through our mutual friend and producer Juck. He was hanging around Europe at that time, and for me the simple fact that he was an Australian guy rapping in Italian was the most nonsensical thing ever (in a good way of course). I listened to his music and it really was a unique mix of brazy italian language choices, flows and approach to production. After an evening with some other friends in a Moroccan shisha lounge we decided to do a session together, in which we put together this kind of lento-perreo hard arabian beat which later became the beat for “SPINA”. I’m so happy for this international collab (my first one), shoutout to Martino and Cherry!!

6. Capaz ¿Verdad?

DoloRRes: This is a beat I made real quick off some random vocal samples from various packs across the web, finished the first version around Novemeber 2023 in Milan but didn’t finish my verse and everything else with Cherry until like January 2024. This is probably the zestiest song on the project. I was just like let’s have a sexy track on there, and obviously the whole tape is sexy but this 1 stands out. Also the lead vocal sample in this song just felt very alluring.

Cherry Chola: being assertive and bitchy when it comes to what u want, and not wasting time on those who don’t understand(. Id say my lyrics are more like about rejecting people who are too one dimensional to understand duality and appreciate divine feminine energy (kind of touching on the madonna whore complex .. 

7. O IMA

DoloRRes: Whilst I was in Rome around January 2024 I was listening to A LOT of DJ Gudog, I just wanted to make the most obnoxious and fun track I could, a lot of elements from Baile funk and other sounds from Brazil. This is the only track I’ve ever made in this style, it’s super loud and fun and that’s pretty much it. It was made very quickly and spontaneously like most songs on this project, I sent Cherry the instrumental and she sent back the vocals just like that. There’s a kind of N.E.R.D-ish bridge in there with these pharrell-ish basslines when those farty synth bass lines come in. 

Cherry Chola: this is a party song, my lyrics are about cute fun nights out in the city, dancing with friends and not caring about anything else 

8. Ho Qualcosa Da Dirti (Ft. JUPiTA)

DoloRRes: This is kind of a heartbreak song? Maybe a breakup song? I just love the phrase “I have something to tell you” which is the translation of the title. Like you know when your lover texts you being like “I have to tell you something…” and that anxiety you get, I just love the ambiguity of that statement. And the JUPiTA comes in straight with “La Vida es dolor” - “life is pain” 

Instrumentally with this one I wanted to make a straight up old school Cumbia track, there’s this song that I LOOOVE that JUPiTA showed me called “Que Calor” it has these big group vocals and this busy percussion, and that familiar off kilter rhythm, I wanted to make something that sounded like an old record you find on a compilation from like the 80s or 70s. There’s even some “Music from Saharan cellphones” influence. All the guitars and instruments are played by me, the electric guitar is just a nylon string at my dad’s house that I mic’d up and ran thru some pedals. I wanted to play it all live so it has that kind of vintage un-quantised feel. Once I got the vocals back from Cherry I knew JuPiTa had to be on this track considering she inspired me to make it and I think it really fits her big, siren-like vocal. 

Cherry Chola: About moving cities and feeling lonely and having too much time to reflect on past situations, Its about those days spent just trying to pass the time , getting dolled up to do nothing , being in a strange limbo etc 

JUPiTA: My connection to the lyrics of this song speaks to the curse of being an artist and the struggles faced by the Latinx diaspora. For those with a conventional mindset, the uncertainty of this career path can be difficult to understand. At 2am, after an asado, micheladas, and melón con vino, Que Calor is the song blasting at my house—making its play on "la vida es dolor" feel more ironic.

8. Precio

DoloRRes: This is one of the last songs we did. I got obsessed with this haunting synth loop which basically runs throughout the entire song, it’s just this constant loop. This might be tied with “Notte in Metro” for my favourite track on the project. 

I think it just really stands out because of how stark the production is, like there’s only about 5 tracks in the beat, realllllly simple, so I think this song sticks out for its distinct minimalism and it just has this haunting aura that I’m obsessed with. I think the vocals on this track are some of the catchiest and stickiest on the whole project. I also looove how much Cherry is singing on this song, I think she challenged herself vocally doing some more melodic runs, especially her outro to the song where she does these long and soft notes with these whispering backing vocals. Great way to close the album on a really somber note.

Cherry Chola: Coco Channel once said if you’re sad, add more red lipstick and attack 💋 i reference that because I love red lipstick and the way it makes me feel