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In 1969, producer and boogaloo godfather Bobby Marin conceived this undeservedly obscure funky, psychedelic Latin soul gem. Released on Ralph Lew's short-lived Dorado label and engineered by Jon Fausty, Bobby was backed by a top-notch studio band that included Ricardo Marrero, Joey Pastrana,...
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Deluxe hard-cardboard sleeve + OBI + resealable outer sleeve + 2 Page info sheet with Leo Acosta story in English and Spanish by Carlos TropicazaLEGENDARY MEXICAN PSYCH LATIN JAZZ FUNKREISSUED FOR THE FIRST TIMELeobardo Acosta Quintanar was born in Huetamo, Michoacán in 1925. He was a notable...
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YELLOW VINYLDeluxe hard-cardboard sleeve + OBI + resealable outer sleeve + 2 Page info sheet with Leo Acosta story in English and Spanish by Carlos TropicazaLEGENDARY MEXICAN PSYCH LATIN JAZZ FUNKREISSUED FOR THE FIRST TIMELeobardo Acosta Quintanar was born in Huetamo, Michoacán in 1925. He was a...
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First time 7" reissue of this mega-rare Bobby Marin produced Latin funk gem. 'Together People (Pamoja Watu)' sounds like a cross between James Brown's 'It's A New Day' and Manu Dibango's 'Soul Makossa', while 'It's Your Thing' is a heavy Latin funk instrumental version of the Isley Brothers...
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This elusive and lesser-known collector's gem by Oscar Agudelo y el Combo Moderno called "Pa' mi muñeca" is an album devoted to recreating the strength of a musical genre that's been the soundtrack of Colombian life for decades and represents a milestone on the route cumbia had taken by 1966, when...
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Featuring superb drummer Sylvain Krief, Airto Fogo’s sole album from 1976 is one of the best instrumental jazz-funk / rare-groove albums ever recorded in France. Heavy drums, Rhodes, analogue keyboards, deep bass, hot horns, Blaxploitation & Latin touches…Highly recommended if you like PLACEBO,...
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First ever vinyl reissue of this German private press from 1978. Produced and recorded by the group and only sold at local shops and venues. Excellent and perfectly executed Latin-Funk / Jazz-Fusion with heavy Brazilian vibes.Heavy latin percussion / congas / berimbao, electric guitar, sax, flute,...
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El Palmas Music are reissuing a rare 1970s Venezuela salsa record that spotlights the work of enigmatic Caracas guitar maestro, Andrés Moros Given his singular vision on the 1976 salsa masterpiece, Andres y Sus Estrellas, the absence of information on Venezuelan musician Andres Moros, also known...
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We continue on Brazilian soil with our twelfth release. Like our previous protagonist, Eduardo Araujo was part of the movement surrounding the television program "Jovem Guarda," which eventually gave its name to a national movement of artists influenced by the British Invasion and broadcast to...
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PURPLE VINYL, 100 COPIES ONLY!The name of the band and the cover of the disc explicitly reveal the influence: Secos&Molhados. Investing in androgenia, progressive rock and samba-soul, Assim Assado tried to be a response of the small CID label to the enormous success that the Secos&Molhados did to...
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Vitor Assis Brasil is the best Brazilian jazzman ever, praised internationally by renowned Jazz musicians such like John Coltrane, Phil Woods and many others. Vitor has passed very early, with the age of 36, when he was at his peak. Caetano Rodrigues provided this record to Loronixers, which is...
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In 1975, the prolific and multitalented Brazilian comedians Chico Anysio and Arnaud Rodrigues recorded an album based on the protagonist of one of their most celebrated TV series. Sporting a dodgy moustache and an equally troubling haircut, Carioca conman Paulo Maurício Azambuja (played by Anysio)...
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Baiano & Os Novos Caetanos was a band formed by prolific and multi-talented Brazilian comedians Chico Anysio and Arnaud Rodrigues. Satirising Brazil’s Tropicalia movement in the 1970s, the duo took a friendly crack at the likes of Caetano Veloso and psychedelic rockers Novos Baianos, with their...
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Now-Again Records presents catalog-wide reissues of Latin music propellant Joe Bataan’s legendary Ghetto Records.The series concludes with Drug Story - Rare and unreleased material from Joe Bataan and his Ghetto Records vaults, including an entire side of Bataan’s neve-rbefore-issued Latin...
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Negro É Lindo is the eighth album by Brazilian artist Jorge Ben, released in 1971. The title is a translation of the slogan "Black is beautiful" to Portuguese. The album has a song called "Cassius Marcelo Clay" paying homage to boxer and black activist Muhammad Ali. Rather than use overly...
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The long unavailable ninth album by Brazilian star JORGE BEN. Released in 1972, "BEN" comes from one of Jorge Ben’s most artistically important phases, the early 70s. The album has some of Ben’s most famous songs, “Taj Mahal” (plagiarized by Rod Stewart on his song “Da Ya Think I’m...
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During the mid-1970s, Jorge Ben could do no wrong. Known as the father of samba rock, Ben gained an international audience with an infectious singing style marked by bright optimism and funny satire; A Tábua de Esmeralda deviated from the script by delving into the alchemy of the Middle Ages, as...
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This is the one and only Jorge Ben singing and strumming extended versions of some of his most memorable songs, "Fio Maravilha", "Mas Que Nada" "País Tropical", and "Domingas" among others. Recorded live on TV while Brazil was under heavy dictatorship, here is a wonderful set from a 1972...
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Chico Bernardes is a singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist from São Paulo, Brazil. In his first and self-titled record, 'Chico Bernardes' has arranged and recorded all the instruments, with the support of Gui Jesus Toledo from SELO RISCO and owner of Estúdio Canoa, where the recordings...
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Mad About Records is delighted to present Brazilian Soul Boogie all time classic.Limited Edition on 180 gram black vinyl transfer from Master TapesDon Beto was born in Uruguay and became one of the most forerunners of Soul Music in Brazil in 1979, he recorded "Nossa Imaginação" LP wich featured...
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ITEM ON PRE-ORDER. OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE: JULY, 5th. ORDER NOW AND BE THE FIRST ONE TO GET IT. PINK VINYL, 100 COPIES ONLY! "Style, Style is the answer to everything, an original way to face a boring day, or a dangerous day, I'd rather do a boring job with style, than an exciting thing without...
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The edition that marks the start of the brand-new Comets Coming could not be more suitable: it is that Rodrigo Brandão, like his grandfather Herman Poole Blount, dust of stars that the world knows as Sun Ra, may have his feet on the Earth, but he has definitely a sidereal head.Brandão arrived...
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Discodelic introduces its fifth launch in its series of exclusive limited editions, the second piece of the trilogy of Afro Latin Nicaraguan music.From Managua, we present you the mythical BWANA, the afro tropical rock ensemble pioneer in its style in Central America, with the themes of his second...
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Further adventures in psychedelic disco cumbia from one-man-band C.A.M.P.O.S. on the much-awaited second studio album C.A.M.P.O.S. is a one-man tropical electronic psych band consisting of multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer Joshua Douglas Camp. Though C.A.M.P.O.S. stands for Cumbias And...
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Further adventures in psychedelic disco cumbia from one-man-band C.A.M.P.O.S. on the much-awaited second studio album C.A.M.P.O.S. is a one-man tropical electronic psych band consisting of multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer Joshua Douglas Camp. Though C.A.M.P.O.S. stands for Cumbias And...
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Legendary composer, arranger, band leader and double bassist Israel "Cachao" López (1918-2008) is universally recognized as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the history of Cuban music. He was a co-founder of the widely popular mambo style in the late 1930's, and a primary...
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Double bassist and composer Cachao Lopez was one of the greatest personalities in the history of Cuban music. A true innovator who already in the 40's pioneered a new exciting form of dance music subsequently worldwide known as mambo. "Cuban Music in Jam Session'' stands as one of his classic...
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Few have done as much for salsa in Venezuela as band-leader, composer and pianist Ray Pérez. He burst on to the scene in the mid-60s with his group Los Dementes, creating the blueprint for guaguanco, pachanga and boogaloo in Venezuela. When the name salsa began to be used as something of a...
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Now-Again Records presents catalog-wide reissues of Latin music propellant Joe Bataan’s legendary Ghetto Records.Next up in the series - Joseph “Candido” Rodríguez - Candido was mentored by Tito Puente, and his debut features a fantastic mix of fiery Salsa, Latin Jazz and Sweet Latin...
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100% Peruvian psychedelic chicha from 1981! Lorenzo Palacios Quispe "Chacalón" is a myth. More than a musical star, he is both a religious and secular phenomenon for the masses. Every year on his birthday, his tomb becomes a place of fevered pilgrimage where devotees pray, make wishes and ask for...
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This is Erlon Chaves e Orquestra Saint Moritz – "Procura-se uma Virgem" OST (1971), supposed to be one of the most sought after Erlon Chaves LP. This OST was recorded to a Brazilian soft porn movie with killer organ funk instrumental tracks and several funky, erotic & modal tracks, arranged and...
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Chicha Libre' first release in 10 years is an EP recorded in Mexico City and Bogotá with special guests Mexican sensation Son Rompe Pera and Colombian retro-futurist tropical band La Sonora Mazuren. The EP include covers of the classic Tequila! and Caminito de mi Tierra, first recorded by...
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Sleeve Records is back with the reissue of a rare and iconic Cuban album by Los Chikichaka aka "Los Caneyes". All tracks are composed by "Maestro" Juan Pablo Torres. Get ready to enjoy latin psychedelic rhythms that intersect with afro-cuban, jazz-funk, psychedelic, latin jazz and bolero.
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In 2006, the UK reissue label, Soundway, dropped the first volume of their “Panama!” series. Curated and compiled by Roberto Gyemant, this first compilation -and the subsequent two volumes- unleashed long-lost salsa tunes, sweet soul and funk cuts, cumbias, calypsos, and many other ‘60s and...
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Debut album of heavy Colombian salsa by the obscure and short-lived El Clan Antillano. Founded in 1975 by singer Jacky Carazo and radio personality / composer Mike Char and backed by a studio orchestra comprised mostly of Fruko Y Sus Tesos band members. The record has been remastered from the...
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Second reference of Gutifunk Achilisound Discos is a time bomb built in the old way. Conceptually conceived as a sound library LP, Combo Alex Melero has had the fortune of bringing together jazz geniuses such as Jorge Pardo or Chip Wickham and essential rumba figures such as Manuel Malou (Los...
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As the 1950s drew to a close a group of students at Caracas’ Universidad Central de Venezuela caught the tropical music bug and decided to form an orchestra. With the majority of the students coming from the engineering faculty, they were duly christened Conjunto Ingeniería (The Engineering...
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The Scepters were a band from the Paraíso province, a township just north of the Panama Canal's Pedro Miguel Locks. Guitarist Celso Spencer initiated the group in Paraíso High School in 1967, and it featured Celso as lead guitarist, Lionel Best on rhythm guitar and bass, Lorenzo Anderson on...
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180-Gram Vinyl Limited Edition of 500 copies. Described by Matthew Garbutt on AllMusic as "one of Mexico's national cultural treasures", the award-winning drummer, composer, arranger, and bandleader Tino Contreras (1924-2021) recorded and performed internationally for more than 60 years. Blending...
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This Latin 45 is pure dance floor dynamite! A true boogaloo gem that blends Manny Corchado's explosive rhythm with the melodic touch of salsa legend Nelson y sus Estrellas (available here on a 45 for the first time). TRACKLIST Side A CHICKEN AND BOOZE Side B AGUARDIENTE Y POLLO
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After Caetano Veloso broke out with his solo debut, the self-titled 1968 release recognized as the building block for the now infamous Brazilian Tropicalia movement, his friends and musical peers released similar albums, always upping the ante in terms of outrageousness and inventiveness. This...
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Brazilian Space-Age Groove from singer, composer and keyboard player Guilherme Coutinho and O Grupo Stalo.
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Infectious, hypnotic tropical grooves with a ragga kick from Australia’s premier cumbia orchestra. If you like Ondatrópica, Frente Cumbiero, Ska Cubano and Lucho Bermúdez, you’ll love Cumbiamuffin.It was only a matter of time before cumbia hit Australia. After humbly coming to life on...
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Ritmos tropicales hipnóticos e contagiosos con un toque de ragga de la principal orquesta de cumbia de Australia. Si te gustan Ondatrópica, Frente Cumbiero, Ska Cubano y Lucho Bermúdez, te encantará Cumbiamuffin.Era solo cuestión de tiempo que la cumbia golpeará Australia. Después de cobrar...
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Los Dandy’s were a Peruvian cumbia band formed in the 70s by the great Héctor Farfán (Los Beta 5, Los Destellos) featuring the superb vocals of the legendary Oswaldo “Guajiro” Ortega (Los Guajiros, Los Destellos) on most of their songs.This is their rare album from 1985, originally released...
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Los Dandy’s were a Peruvian cumbia band formed in the 70s by the great Héctor Farfán (Los Beta 5, Los Destellos) featuring the superb vocals of the legendary Oswaldo “Guajiro” Ortega (Los Guajiros, Los Destellos) on most of their songs.This is their rare album from 1985, originally released...
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This album marks the debut recording for Venezuela's Velvet label by pianist Ray Pérez and his trombone-led salsa band Los Dementes. Heavy dance numbers and the distinctive vocals of Perucho Torcat make this historic 1967 rarity a sought-after collector's item. Now the LP has been lovingly...
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In the 80s, Dimas “Sam Dimas” Pedroza was encouraged with two atypical projects. One in partnership with the great Larry Francia, another artist released by El Palmas Music, and titled La salsa es con Dimas y Larry. And the other with an orchestra of great artists of the time that El Palmas...
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"Ela", Dom La Nena's first album, was released in 2013. Co-produced with the complicity of Piers Faccini, the album received the highest praise from the international press (New York Times, NPR, Les Inrocks, Wall Street Journal, etc). On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of its release, here is...
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