What do you reckon the chances are of an Australian group in 2015 being able to get anywhere close to sounding like the Fania giants of yore in a way that hitherto few aside from Ray Lugo have? The answer is pretty damn close as it happens – say ‘hello’ to Quarter Street, the Melbourne-based four-piece core of Latin-American heritage whose full-length debut
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QUARTER STREET: Fantasia (2015) + Video + title track ltd. free download
PAZ ANTIGUANA: Surfing The Channel (HIPHOPPAPOTAMUS remix) (2015) Free download
Hiphoppapotamus gets on a drum n boogaloo tip with his sprightly remix of Surfing The Channel from Parisian boogaloo outfit Paz Antiguana. Surfing the channel? I do hope they’re not referring to ‘La Manche’ – that veritable surfers’ paradise ‘twixt the UK and France famous for mile after mile of stony beach break and set after set of six inch-high fuel-and-sewage-rich straighthanders
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MORLACK: Boogaloo EP (2012)
“Richie, would you do me a favor and eat my pussy for me, please?” Yeah. That got your attention didn’t it? It’s a sample that certainly got mine when I was listening to the title track at the start of Morlack’s new Boogaloo EP. Boogaloo? Oh what – like the funky mambo/ soul hybrid? Um – no – not exactly. Oh…well perhaps something to do with Electric Boogaloo by Ollie & Jerry then…?
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