The story of Dengue Dengue Dengue!
Dengue Dengue Dengue! are an audio-visual duo from Lima, Peru. Behind the beautifully crafted handmade masks are Felipe Salmon and Rafael Pereira—producers, DJs, and graphic designers. They explore and utilize rhythms from Latin, African, and Anglo culture, re-creating them in electronic form by mixing old and new, analog and digital, resulting in a unique, instantly identifiable sound accented by their striking hand-crafted visuals. Their musical explorations range from psychedelic Cumbia to dub, from salsa to footwork, from ancestral to techno. With each new release, their sound continues to evolve adding more color, flavor, and texture to their heady and provocative mix.
DDD was formed in mid-2010 and was an immediate hit in Lima thanks to their impeccable audio-visual show, remixing and mashing up their tracks with old Cumbia songs, and modifying Cumbia classics into electronic versions.
They gained international acclaim in early 2011 when the duo began to issue their first original productions on internet music and culture blogs in Latin America, Europe, and the U.S. After that, they started producing the TOMA! Sessions, helping to highlight the growing and vibrant tropical bass movement in Lima by inviting various transcultural musicians and DJs to disseminate sounds and ideas.
Since 2012, DDD has released four full-length albums and several EPs and singles, toured the world, lectured for Red Bull Music Academy, created acclaimed remixes, and have collaborated with several esteemed labels.
The duo created their recording alter ego DNGDNGDNG in early 2020. Deeply influenced by the insurgent bass music subculture in the U.K, Salmon and Pereira offered a nuanced take on it by grafting exploratory Afro-Peruvian/Afro-Colombian polyrhythms, interlocking, time signatures, and (sometimes extremely) variant tempos. Their debut EP, Continentes Perdidos (Lost Continents), appeared in July from Portugal's Enfuchada label and was distributed globally through On the Corner.
