This week’s radio program made us pull all our fav goodies from Mexico to bring you a special cinco de mayo edition, so expect to dance to some mambo rock, some garage rock from Mexico’s city’s rock scene in the 60′s, some very tasty fusions of rock, funk, and mambo from Perez Prado, plus some [...]
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“Tabu, Tabu” “La Ultima Palabra“ “Oye Mama, Oye Papa” Here’s a little record by Sola, released in 1973 on RCA Mexico. I couldn’t find much on her mucical career, the notes tell the story of a nun who first noticed Sola’s voice at fourteen while she sang as she cleaned the halls of her convent/school. [...]
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El Monstro Mix! Listen/Download Just in time for Halloween, a little non-stop mix of bone shakin’ monster themed garage rock, surf, and jerk rhythms from south of the border. Includes tracks by some of Mexico and Peru’s wildest teen punk rockers. Happy Jaloguin from Sonorama!!!! EB playlist: La noche–Los Crazy Birds Hey monstruo–Los Monstruos Pobre [...]
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viVa MeXico!! This week finds us in a little celebratory mood since it’s Mexico’s 200th bday, so we’ve dug through our wax to bring you a little trip through some of the country’s musical past, including some interesting versions of some classic Mexican standards done by a variety of artists. We start things out with [...]
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This week we point our ears just a little south of the border to check out a little slice of norteño sounds from Mexico’s northern regions from the 60′s and 70′s. Fusion has been as much a part of norteña music as much as any other genre. The technobanda sound and Nortec collective’s recent fusions [...]
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Conformism was the rule for Mexican rock in the 60s: the biggest bands were the ones who got to play on TV shows under the shelter of the big record companies of the era: Orfeón, RCA Victor, Columbia and more. Most of the musicians in these bands lacked any musical knowledge. Having seen some Elvis [...]
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