SNOWBOY PRESENTS NEW VINTAGE (VARIOUS ARTISTS)
Snowboy is not only a Latin Percussionist, Band Leader, Recording Artist and a DJ of different permutations and era's of Jazz, Latin, Funk and Soul, but also a curator at the 'Vintage' festival in England. As all the bands on here are current, you may be surprised to see Crazy Cavan and the Rhythm Rockers 'Teddy Boy Rock And Roll' are also included. They've recently celebrated 40 years together and Snowboy wanted to acknowledge that achievement. They're still out there doing it too, and that makes them current. Whether you're keen on the term 'Vintage' or not (and some of the artists here are not comfortable with that term), a definition in the Collins Dictionary is “Representative of the best and most typical”. There you have it. You're in for a treat. ~ BBEMusic
PRIVATE WAX (VARIOUS ARTISTS)
Zafsmusic.com continues to bring you the rarest disco & boogie bangers with his new compilation titled Private Wars. 16 scintillating excursions into the deep disco & boogie world of privately pressed & produced gems. Zaf Zafsmusic is a disco weasel of the highest order. He has, by his own admission, got it bad--losing sleep and suffering physical maladies from the want of certain must-have pieces of stamped vinyl. Fortunately, he also has excellent taste and a lengthy history of wheeling and dealing with other similarly afflicted individuals, a history that has allowed him to sift the wheat from the crap, err, chaff, as it were. Taken as a whole, this compilation is perfect party material, filled with feel-good tunes that take things back to that simple love of music that enticed us all in the first place. Zaf deserves our thanks for making his private wax public. ~ BBEMusic
LOS TRANSATLANTICOS - FIRST TRIP
Fusing Latin American sounds with European electronic beats can often produce a bland and rudderless dross destined for derivative lounge compilations and deliriously dull playlists at pretentious after work cocktail bars. Not so with the aptly named First Trip, the superb sophomore effort from the equally aptly named “Los Transatlanticos”. The story of Los Transatlanticos begins in 1996 when the Croatian Born and Berlin Resident Dean Bagar aka Tricky D went on a trip to Bogotá, Colombia, where he met Pablo Gaviria and immediately bonded over a common love for Caribbean music. Before long the synergy between both became such that they decided to form “Los Transatlanticos”, named in reference to both their musical approach and their forced l! ong distance artistic relationship, and formed of mainly Colombian musicians and vocalists. The outcome of the first meeting of Los Transatlanticos is 1st Trip, a musical fusion of the Caribbean and the European which owes more to Manu Chao’s rebel nonconformist spirit than Thievery Corporation’s slick aesthetical perfectionism - to the benefit of the listener and live audience both - made its live debut at the Berlin Worldtronic Festival in December 2011 to rapturous reception, and will surely herald in a very eventful year ahead for these Transatlantic music friends. It’s time to jam. ~ BBEMusic
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