Peak Time – Popular Chilean Sounds and Lunar Tapes

Marisol García is a Chilean journalist, music researcher, academic and one of the creators of musicapopular.cl; she has spent nearly two decades sussing out the history of traditional Chilean music and the socio-politics behind it. Her first book, _Canción Valiente_, analyzed politically-committed song forms from Violeta Parra until the end of the Pinochet dictatorship. García arrives on this episode with a cache of Chilean folk, pop and rock from the 1950s until the present day, giving us an overview of the evocative movements that have informed the country's signature sound. Later, we talk to Eggglub, one of the minds behind Lunar Tapes, a Santiago cassette label putting out all manner of psychedelic, new age, loopy and loveable hip-hop beat tapes. Eggglub chats with us about the label's mission, its unique R.Crumb-esque artwork and mining beats from Chile to Greece to Japan.