Summer 1974 in NY city... do you feel it? "Electric" latin funk at its best

Cortijo & his time machine - La Verdad (1974)

Pure late 60s NY funky latin groove !

Kako & his orchestra - Live it up (1967)

Feeling like New York Chinatown in 1977? Here you are, from a Latin Funk perspective !

Jose Mangual - Chinatown (1977)

I love this latin funk cover of Tighten Up by Archie Bell and the Drells... enjoy

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Orchestra Harlow presents Ismael Miranda

Horsin' Up (1968)

Sounds of the 70s presents

a new compilation of rare out-of-print tracks

from my secret vault

Crossed notes, a soulful melodic blend

Manu Dibango - Lakisane

Monguito Santamaria - Crying Time

Labi Siffre - Doctor Doctor

James Last - I Can't Move No Mountains

Mascara - Golden Years

Johnny Hammond - Fantasy [The Visioneers Beat Drop]

Isaac Hayes - Part-Time Love

Darongo - Let My People Go

La Clave - Soul Sauce

Ismael Rivera - Bamba Cure

Tipica 73 - Baila que Baila

Fania All Stars - Noche

enjoy

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Joe Bataan is one of the most talented Latin-Soul crooner from the 60/70´s
One of his best song is a cover of the Nina Simone To be young, gifted and brown song.

In this moment of political campaign in the USA, I could not help the direct reference to Barack Obama and share this amazing track:

Joe Bataan - Young, gifted and brown

For those who want to dig deeper, another amazing compilation (with comprehensive inliner notes and photos) from
FANIA remastered series

Sounds of the 70s presents another summer 2008 selection

UNDER THE DUST... GOLD - hand digged solid sound gemms

a new compilation of burried tracks
out-of-print, promotional use only

1	Juan Pablo Torres	Ey! ...Op.1
2	Roberto Roena	Traicion
3	Joe Bataan	Es Tu Cosa
4	Dianne & Carole	The Fuzz
5	Benitez And Nebula	Viejo
6	The Soulful Strings	Soul Message
7	S.O.U.L.	Burning Spear
8	Crystal Image	Gonna have a good time
9	Davis, Tyrone	A Woman Needs To Be Loved
11	Donny Hathaway	Tryin' Times
12	The New Swing Sextet	Honeybee
13	Roy Ayers	If You Love Me
14	Caetano Veloso	Jorge da Capadocia
15	Sebastiao Tapajos	Belem

I hope you will enjoy the wierdest latin intro I could imagine !
pure 70s madness

I like this mix a lot, the groove is right, play it mixed in your mp3 player

I hope to enlighten your summer evenings until the next compilations in september

peace, love, take care of mother nature and keep fighting ignorance (it´s BIG), greediness, that both ruins this world


here

Sounds of the 70s strongly recommends

Benitez and Nebula
double album cd : Night life / Essence of life
Vampisoul records


I recently discovered this latin rock/funk/soul project and bought the superb VAMPISOUL re-edition cd.
My advise : if you liked this blog and all the stuff in it, you sure will love this band

the dustygroove review (below) is right : TREMENDOUS albums !!!

2 tremendous 70s albums from Eddie Benitez -- both of them a great mix of jazz, funk, and Latin soul! Eddie's style here is totally great, and very unique -- a laidback approach to the groove that has echoes of the Chicano soul coming out of LA in the early 70s -- but which is often a lot more fluid, and with strongly jazzy overtones on guitar. Most numbers feature great organ or keyboards -- really setting up the flow of the record nicely -- and there's almost a Santana-inspired quality to some of the tracks -- but one that really goes back towards Latin music much more strongly, thanks to lots and lots of heavy congas and percussion! CD version features 19 tracks from both albums -- with titles that include "Nightlife", "Viejo", "We Are The One", "Hey Girl", "Dreams Can Come True", "Love's Way", "Waiting For Your Love", "Anyone", "Essence Of Life", "Latin Thing", "Hermano", and "Nueva Generacion".

This re-issue cd is from the highly respected VAMPISOUL label (spain), that has released a lot of amazing and remastered 70s material

so naturally i will not post it, but rather invite you to get the real cd sound and the superb cd-pack these guys released.

To give you feel of the album and convince you, here is one sample track : Eternal life

cd on sale at:

Vampi soul
Dusty groove
Amazon.com
Ebay..
etc..