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With the compilation New Dimensions in Latin Music, Coco María launched her label last autumn. On 15 May 2026, Disco Chimi becomes the first full-length artist album to appear on Club Coco. Thirteen tracks in 34 minutes, entirely in Spanish. Charlie Chimi – a Cuban musician raised in the Dominican Republic – connects Santo Domingo, Havana and Brooklyn. Not fusion, but oscillation. Merengue, dembow, rock and Afro-disco are not blended but displaced against one another. The result is friction. On »Un Cafecito (Por Favor)«, for instance, a clattering four-on-the-floor stumbles after four seconds into a melancholic Dominican blues. Emerging from high-energy live shows in New York, the album sounds like an urban collective project – raw, humorous, deliberately unstable.
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Everywhere at once
Disco Chimi stages Latin music as a state of motion – between cities, scenes and modes of production. Not identity, but mobility becomes the structuring principle: With »Cachú,« which premieres here today, Chimi oscillates between no wave and the Caribbean; »Que Rico« between reggaeton and Italo disco.When asked directly about the label’s direction, founder Coco María explains: »Club Coco is looking for mobile spaces, studios, and freedom of movement. Collaboration across the world, ideas that need to marinate until we find the right fit and musical partners.« Disco Chimi thus feels less like a debut than a statement of intent.
Disco Chimi
