Guaracha, also known as zapateo or aleteo, is an

electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...

genre from

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, Colombia. The genre has no connection to the traditional

guaracha The guaracha () is a genre of music that originated in Cuba, of rapid tempo and comic or picaresque lyrics. The word has been used in this sense at least since the late 18th and early 19th century. Guarachas were played and sung in musical the ...

of Cuba. The genre began in the 2010s when Colombian DJs, among them Medellín's Víctor Cárdenas and DJ Pereira, began looking within their own culture for inspiration. This eventually led to taking the festive trumpets, tambora drums and accordions of traditional

cumbia Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America, generally involving musical and cultural elements from American Indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Africans during colonial times. Cumbia is said to have com ...

arrangements (all from the Caribbean region of Colombia) and mixing them into

electronic dance music Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as dance music or club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and List of electronic dance music festivals, festivals. It is generally ...

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