Super Disco Pirata - De Tepito Para El Mundo 1965β-β1980
Label | Analog Africa ββ AACD 099 |
Series | Analog Africa ββ No. 39 |
Format | CD, Compilation |
Barcode | 4260126061835 |
Country | Germany |
Released | Nov 2024 |
Genre | Latin, Funk / Soul, Folk, World, & Country |
Style | African, Cumbia, Salsa, Afrobeat |
The 'Super Disco Pirata' compilation contains 23 tropical floor-fillers sourced from the finest and strangest pirata LPsproduced during the golden age of Mexico City's mobile soundsystems, and includes a large booklet containing extensive notes and photos, It is dedicated to all the sonideros for their ground-breaking roles as ambassadors of tropical music within Mexican society. During the 1980s, a group of music dealers and record collectors from Mexico City joined forces to create a series of illegally manufactured vinyl records containing rare and highly-sought hits from PerοΏ½, Ecuador, Colombia and beyond. At the time, Mexico City's dance-party scene was ruled by the sonideros, a highly developed network of mobile soundsystem operators. The popularity of the sonideros led to a growing demand for tropical music, as their fan base became increasingly hungry for the "exclusive" hits associated with particular sonidos. Additionally record dealers were getting frustrated with the music industry constantly "feeding" them streams of mediocre records and from this frustration came the idea of compiling and manufacturing LPs on which every song was a hit: "no matter where the needle dropped, it had to be a song capable of igniting the party." These bootleg compilations - known as "pirata" - were pressed during graveyard shift on recycled vinyl in editions of no more than 500, they were cheaply produced and sold just as cheaply to people who otherwise wouldn't have been able to afford them. They were played extensively in every corner of Mexico's heavily-populated barrios where, in addition to educating the ears of the youngsters, they also promoted some of the best tropical music recorded in Latin America. According to various first-hand accounts these "piratas" began to appear mysteriously in the early 1980s at various market stalls in Tepito, Mexico City's infamous barrio, a place where one can attend daytime Salsa parties, get any drug imaginable, buyany kind of weapon and, of course, purchase pirated music...
1 | β Lucho Burbano | Afro Oriental | |
2 | β Cumbia Machuca | Cumbia De Los Bee Gees | |
3 | β Lucho Gavilanes | El Tequilazo/Canelazo | |
4 | β Carlos Haayen Y Su Piano Candeloso | Palenque | |
5 | β Enrique Lynch | La Quinta Sinfonia De Beethoven | |
6 | β Los Pakines | Venus | |
7 | β La Protesta De Colombia | Lamento De Cumbia | |
8 | β Sonora Tropical | Ritmo de Cumbia | |
9 | β Eduardo Zurita | La 3a De Los Toquecitos | |
10 | β Leon Cardona Y Los Internacionales | La Noche | |
11 | β El Combo Cienaguero | El Compae NuΓ±ez | |
12 | β Gabriel Meza Y Su Organo ChΓ©vere | La Luna Y El Pescador | |
13 | β Los Destellos | Tanto Tienes, Tanto Vales | |
14 | β Los Diablos Rojos | A Bailar El Son Satanico | |
15 | β AnΓbal Angel | Cumbia Tropical | |
16 | β Camacho y Cano | Hagan Rueda | |
17 | β Orquesta Rafalo | Eso Es Con Vela | |
18 | β Alex Acosta Y Su Orquesta | Cumbia Del Amor | |
19 | β Ramon Ropain | Malinga | |
20 | β Afrosound | Platico Chino | |
21 | β Los Destellos | La China MarΓa | |
22 | β Los Orientales De Paramonga | Te Gusta Como Azucar | |
23 | β Francisco Zapata | Cumbia Candelosa |
Label Code β 18467
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