Guaracha: The Latin American electronic music genre set to boom in 2026.

The bass resonates at the parties in Manrique, Parque Lleras and in clandestine parties in the suburbs throughout Latin America. It is a combination of electronic music with reggaeton, according to Vice, “it can be said that the first thing that sounds is tribal house but after a few minutes one begins to identify some variations in the groove that make the songs more “dungable.”

Some celebrities like Maluma, upon seeing the phenomenon, have released their own songs of the genre. Without much success, experts describe the genre as the decline of electronic music or the rise of fusing it with perreo.

Maluma’s guaracha

Tribal House, circuit, Aleteo or Zapateo?

As the genre has become popular among young people in Latin America, variants and versions have emerged that have tropicalized each of its territories. This is how Colombian guaracha is characterized by more tropical rhythms, with the use of trumpets, saxophone and maracas. The aletao, also called zapateo, uses more synthesizers, being lighter than the Colombian rhythm. And there is also a subgenre called circuit, which is what it is normally called in Mexico or club music.

Fumaratto Ferroso, the most famous in Colombia

Daniel Mateo Quintero Posada presents himself as a standard-bearer of guaracha and explains to El Tiempo that the genre began as a challenge for Latin Americans, in the search for having their own electronic music with Caribbean and tropical sounds and atmosphere. Because in European and American environments, we were recognized as song players. Until guaracha was a bet with the aim of producing his own music.

Alex Barrera, the pioneer

It began in 2000, experimenting mainly with electronics. Tribal-house was his first genre until he decided to mix reggaeton with house, he put a faster beat to the reggaeton and voila mixes: He invented a genre that young people throughout Latin America fell in love with.

DJ Dasten, his origins and popularity

Dasten is followed by 451 thousand people on Instagram. His name is Daniel Ayala, born in 1998 and he has been promoting his events the longest throughout Latin America, especially in Mexico, Chile and Colombia.

Their sound is specifically created to be on a paradisiacal beach in the Caribbean and although it started with private parties in “clubs” its aesthetic and art direction is aimed at pool or beach parties that have a different vibe than what is heard in urban areas or at night.

Other exponents of the genre in Colombia are: Zant-iu, Dasten, Kristian Arango, Iván Miranda, Exotic, Dihousen, Fumaratto Ferroso, Juan Bass, Santiago Chacón, Diego Marín and Dani Mazi.

Antro/tribal/electronic music in Mexico

A mix of cumbia, with reggaeton, electronica and native Mexican sounds. Although it was not born in Mexico, guaracha was enriched by Mexican sounds and instruments, where Colombian DJs have attended and summoned masses of young people from all strata. At the time, guaracha was known as narcobeat because it was listened to by people who obtained their money from suspicious sources, where there were excesses and too much of an underground atmosphere. However, over time, the guaracha has been refined and is now frequented by young university students who want to enjoy the time of their lives with their respective soundtrack in the background. Although guaracha was supposed to be Colombian electronic music, it is surprising to announce that the Latin Grammy-nominated electronic song went to Ela Minus.

Does the Academy still not know the guaracha? Do you know her and you don’t like her? Is it possible that the sound of Ela Minus is simply not for the masses? While the guaracha fills spaces with up to 5,000 people, Ela Minus, alone at home, reaches 2000. Good for the nascent Latin American electronic music, let’s see in 10 years, which type of electronic music wins the most, not in money, not in public but in the evolution of sound and its atmosphere.