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I may be completely wrong, but for some reason the second song brings to mind "The White Room"
by The KLF - Bill Drummond is British, but can kind of sound Irish. Another possibility that comes to mind is a band called Looper, whose trademark sound is trip-hoppy music where the Scottish-accented vocalist mainly just does spoken word: Looper was the project of Stuart David of Belle And Sebastian, and Belle And Sebastian's "A Spaceboy Dream" was pretty much the blueprint for the Looper stuff, so I guess that could be it too.
Nope, neither of those are it, Mike K. The man had a deeper voice and the background music wasn't electronic. Thank you for trying, though!
Okay, this is a bit of a wild shot, but is the first one "Arrasando" by Thalia? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn1h3AQk_TQ&ob=av2e
Fast Spanish songs -> maybe something from Heroes Del Silencio?
Here's a sample in case you don't know them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrwVZ4qUTMs

There's this one song I heard on the radio around 2000 (pretty sure it was 2000) in south Texas, right near the Mexican border. I'm almost positive it was in Spanish (EDIT: and the vocalist was male), and it had a very fast beat to it, drum-heavy if I remember right. Here the tune I remember being the chorus
, and this was also in there
. If I remember right there were a few lines that ended in "Gracias, senor" in the non-chorus bits. Any info? It's been bugging me for years.
Another song I'd like to know more about is this one I heard in an FYE, that was basically this old Irish guy... rapping, for lack of a better word. Well, more like spoken word most of the time. In between several lines (what may be considered the chorus) he'd ask "Do you 'something something something', 'something'? Do you 'something something something?" I think. (EDIT: It was not a comedic song in any way; done entirely seriously.) Anyone know an artist who does this, or, even better, the song I'm thinking of?
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