Clean, Healthy Stress Relief: Coco Maria's Cumbia DJ Set
<p>It’s hard to get a word or thought in edgewise this week, with the American presidential election still looming over every waking moment. You need a minute? You need 40 minutes? Here’s what I recommend: A quick trip to a sun-soaked June apartment, where Coco Maria is behind the decks with a very chill vintage cumbia DJ set.</p>
<p>I’m no therapist, so this is the best I can prescribe.
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<p>Just let her go to work; she's got this. The energy of this video is a million miles from where I'm personally at, but it's helping immensely.<br></p>
<p>The YouTube channel <em>My Analog Journal</em> has hours and hours of these sets, and I’ll soundtrack those long afternoons in the home office with the band <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC8KjG9SM30&t=4s">Salt Cathedral spinning Afro-Cuban and Latin Jazz</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaM6UJpAyg">Habibi Funk playing Arabic tapes and records</a> or DJ Poly-Ritmo behind breakfast-themed turntables, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQdKyQEaeqk">dropping Brazilian classics</a>. Or, in off-Afropop hours, Turkadelic tunes or French <em>yéyé</em>, you know whatever rises to the mood.</p>
<p>They're great for reading or working or cooking to, so if you're doing something repetitive—counting something up, let's say—take two and call the election in the morning.
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