Los Charly’s Orchestra return next week with the 130th release from Imagenes Recordings and a track that pays tribute to Latin fusion culture. That’ll be Nuyorican Disco then, which is about as Latin as a disco biscuit can get, replete with jangly funk guitar, slap bass, retro ‘laser fire’ FX, layers of percussion, fiery Latin horns and Latin vocal motifs courtesy of Andre Espeut and Oswaldo
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Monthly Archives: November 2022
LOS CHARLY’S ORCHESTRA feat. ANDRE ESPEUT & OSWALDO CHACON: Nuyorican Disco
THE WHITE BLINDS: Cal High
I’ve said it before, but sometimes the releases land in the monkey’s digital inbox so thick and fast there isn’t time to keep up – and that’s after the ones that got binned because they weren’t MB material! Such a time is autumn and one release that got overlooked in the deluge is hot new single Cal High from The White Blinds. Like fellow organ trios such as the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio and
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DAVE BARKER: Peace Of Mind (Vinyl 7″)
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Was it only last month that Original Gravity released a brand new 7″ by one early reggae hero and here they are again with another 45 and a different legend in tow!? Blimey! This time on the mic it’s Dave Barker of Dave & Ansell Collins (yes – of Double Barrel and Monkey Spanner fame!) and the track is entitled Peace of Mind. Weighing in at 104 bpm it’s certainly at the
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BRONX DOGS: Mambo Roc (STEPPIN’ TONES Re-edit) Free download
Sha lala la la oh oh-oh! Oh oh! Waaiiittt a minute. I remember that! Maybe not the original (I don’t think I found out where that bit came from) but the massive bit of Latin big beat in which it formed one of the key samples for sure – Bronx Dogs Mambo Roc. Bronx Dogs? You know – DJ Regal (ex-Wiseguys) and Richard Sen – active as Bronx Dogs in the late 90s and early noughties
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MORLACK: VIP’s EP
The time was when nary a month or so went by without a new Morlack release but things have been strangely quiet in our DC Go-go-obsessed friend’s camp for – oohh – over a year. Until now that is, for here is our man with the forty-second (!) release on his Funk Blasters label – the four-track VIPs EP. Strictly speaking it’s not actually new material – mostly anyway. There is one new
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THE ALLERGIES: Sometimes I Wonder
Bristol’s The Allergies have of late been experimenting with their sonic palette in the lead up to their next LP. We’ve had the Latin breakbeat-powered Vamonos featuring Andy C and Marietta Smith back in the summer, house-afrobeat crossover Hypnotise and now latest effort, Sometimes I Wonder. You sometimes wonder too don’t you? You wonder where those
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THE MIGHTY MOCAMBOS: Scénarios LP
Rating: As long-heralded by a series of singles beginning with their Live At Jam PDM! 45 from two years ago (possibly before this LP was even actually a ‘thing’), here, finally, is The Mighty Mocambos’ Scenarios long player – an entity that re-affirms why the word ‘mighty’ appears between ‘The’ and ‘Mocambos’ in the band’s name. Of course, this one is packed with
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