Fun video! We spent most of January in CDMX and I started to hear that "cochones, lavadores..." recording in my sleep. There are remixes - dance music - with that recording. I couldn't find them today ... but anyone looking to drive themselves crazy can find the remixes on line.
Thanks! Haha, yes there are many remixes online, when I was working on this video, I played back that so many times, I got it stuck in my head for weeks! Lol
The sound of tamales oaxaqueños my favorite. I always know that there is a guy in my neighborhood who always glad to give me some tamales for 40 pesitos🥰
This brought back good memories for me. I was so surprised by the steam whistle thing that makes the plantains because when I originally heard that in CDMX I had no idea what that horrendous noise was! Great video keep up the good work!
It is great to see this video on the sounds, but how about the smells? Take the metro from Pino Suarez south and you can smell cilantro when you pass under Merced. Forever the smell of burning paper at the underground metro stations (watch the mice scurrying about between the tracks). The smell of the shoe-shiners The smell (stench) when a garbage truck goes by. The delightful smell of a bakery. And last, the sulphur-like sewage smell at Caballito, which is built over a ventilation shaft. Must be all the frijoles. Love that city!!!
This is great idea! I also can distinguish different smells in many cities in the world, but it would be very challenging to show smells in the video and I'm not very posting to poetically describe them.
When you are in a quiet neighbourhood you often hear a mechanical squeaking noise from about a block away ... it will be a place where they make tortillas: a large lump of maiz flour goes into the machine and torillas come out via a conveyor belt at the other end... in between is an oven to lightly toast the tortillas. Lots of moving parts that maybe could use some shot of DW40. In Guatemala the tortillas are mostly made by slapping a small amount of flour between the palms of the hands, making a very distinct sound. On Calle Francisco Madero where you filmed much of the video there is a small boy playing an old beat-up guitar missing several strings... he randomly hits the remaining strings and sings tones just as random.... not very musical ...... and on the same street often an old man striking the strings on a (just as old) violin... just random sounds and terribly out of tune. I always give him a peso. And how about the bells on the numerous churches? Or the woosh of the metro when you happen to stand on a street over the ventillation grilles? Or the flute playing blind man on the metro?
Thank you for all your ideas about the sounds in CDMX! I only saw guys on three wheeled bikes selling fresh tortillas. I think I tried to select the most distinguished sounds as church bells or metro sounds are in the other cities as well. This is very nice of you to give them a peso even though they don't show much of a talent.
Man I have a poor recording of the junk collector and no recording of the tamale guy. I can use the wav file for my Tesla! Could you share the recordings?
Not really, I wouldn't say you can all the time hear bells. But for example in Coyoacan there are many churches of different saints and in the time of celebrations of these saints people launch a lot of fireworks. This is very annoying that for whole week of celebrations, any time day and night you will hear explosions.
As Mexican is very funny to watch this video... the foreigner vision of my own country. Personally I don't like the sounds of trash bell, camoteros and "fierro viejo"; specially if I am trying to concentrate on work.
@@AndriiZhulidov si vives aquí te acostumbras , 😎 es natural , incluso te llega a extrañar que no pase la basura o el de los tamales hasta tu domicilio cuando no tienes nada en la.nevera 😁
OMG I stayed there for 3 weeks and I had to use ear plugs and noise cancelling headphones! Couldn’t sleep while staying at my cousins house. Dogs barking 24/7!
I liked your video but I don't like the strange noises as it would seem irrational to comprehend why after so many decades people are still whistling and playing their instruments on the street as it was no evolution of social care, protective measures for the people or better working conditions so it is a sad stigma, people condemned to work for peanuts with no incentives and other wealthier people using their services at no expense
Thank you! I understand what you mean. It is hard to explain, because due to many social and economical factors countries have different pace of development and prioritize different things. If you will look at this from another side, this is a cultural experience. This is unique to Mexico and people live with this and rely on this services. It all works for Mexico and Mexicans are proud of their culture. Maybe one day, all these things will disappear from the streets and everything will change, but for now this is real live in this country.
@@AndriiZhulidov I can assure you, talking to Mexicans here in the city, not everyone finds it cute or endeering. Mexicans get distracted and annoyed by it too.
