Conch Records
Various - Salsa Explosion! (STRUT)
Available on CD here and 2LP here
Tagged "the Latin Motown", Fania is perhaps most famous for its recordings during the coming of age of salsa from the late 60's to the late 70's, when Latin (often Cuban) dance formats like rumba, guaracha, mambo, son and cha cha fused with big band American jazz and the gritty punch of US R&B in the unique melting pot of New York.
Strut begin their programme of Fania albums with a series entitled Fania Essential Recordings, tracing the development of the many genres featured on the label from Latin soul to boogaloo to descarga. The first instalment, 'Salsa Explosion', provides a handy introduction to the classic Fania sound through some of the label's major artists including Celia Cruz, Mongo Santamaria, Willie Colon, Hector Lavoe, Ray Barretto and the Daddy of the Fania family, Johnny Pacheco.
Tracklisting & Soundclips:
| 01 | Willie Colón | Che Che Colé | clip | |||
| 02 | Héctor Lavoe | El Todopoderoso | clip | |||
| 03 | Fania All Stars | Mama Güela | clip | |||
| 04 | Mongo Santamaria | O Mi Shango | clip | |||
| 05 | Tito Puente & Celia Cruz | Pachito Eché | clip | |||
| 06 | Tito Puente And His Orchestra | Guaguancó Arsenio | clip | |||
| 07 | Ray Barretto | El Nuevo Barretto | clip | |||
| 08 | Joe Cuba Sextet | Do You Feel It (Tu Lo Sientes) | clip | |||
| 09 | Ralfi Pagan | Brother, Where Are You? | clip | |||
| 10 | Eddie Palmieri | Bilongo ok | clip | |||
| 11 | Louie Ramirez | Ahora Es El Tiempo | clip | |||
| 12 | Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco | Cúcala | clip | |||
| 13 | La Sonora Ponceña | Bomba Carambomba | clip | |||
| 14 | Rafi Val Y La Diferente | A Mi Nena | clip | |||
| 15 | Willie Colón | Todo Tiene Su Final | clip |
Upcoming: Nottz - You Need This Music (RAW KONCEPT)
Available on 2LP, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
Grammy-winning producer Nottz, who is among the most successful beat-makers to emerge from the Virginia hotbed of production talent that exposed The Neptunes and Timbaland, is prepped to release his solo debut, You Need This Music on October 12th via up and coming label Raw Koncept. The project will introduce fans to a new facet of his remarkable talent, as he has honed his rhyme delivery to a razor’s edge. Nottz is a fixture among the industry‘s heaviest-hitting producers who got his start placing his first instrumentals on Busta Rhymes’ best-selling album E.L.E in 1998. From that point, he collaborated with luminaries such as Notorious B.I.G, 50 Cent, The Game, Little Brother, Bilal, Royce Da 5’9 and plenty others to amass an enviable resume that he still supplements to this day. Though he has recently dedicated himself to mastering cadence and lyrical structure for You Need This Music, he has still managed to place compositions on upcoming projects by the likes of Rah Digga, Scarface, and the elusive Dr. Dre, who’s Detox boasts Nottz among a very select few guests. It’s work like this that has allowed him to secure his status as “your favorite producer’s favorite producerâ€, his discography including work for legends of the mixing boards like Kanye West, J Dilla, Swizz Beats, Diamond D and Pete Rock. On You Need This Music, Nottz pulls no punches, charging out of the gate over a cavalcade of snares hammered out by Travis Barker, and doesn’t bat an eye before jumping into the next number. He handles the entire production workload, extracting the emotive instrumental elements from vinyl clips with an ASR-10 sampler and adding his own lyrics. So goes the 14 track marathon, the pace kept by energetic verses by Black Milk, Little Brother, Asher Roth and Joel Ortiz and tempered by soulful hooks from Dwele, Mayer Hawthorne, Bilal and Colin Munroe. You Need This Music is unlike most producer-centric albums in that it isn’t merely a collection of songs, but a cohesive album of essential Hip Hop gems. A1. Intro feat. Travis Barker A2. Fair Warning A3. Blast That feat. Black Milk A4. Shine So Brite B1. You Need This Music feat. Dwele B2. I Do It For Yawl feat.Kardinal Offishall & Little Brother B3. How Long Will It Last? feat. Joy Denalane C1. A Dream Come True C2. I Still Love You feat. Mayer Hawthorne C3. Dontcha Wanna Be (My Neighbor) feat.Asher Roth & Colin Munroe C4. No Money Down feat. Terese Cook D1. Never Caught Slippin’ feat.Snoop Dogg & Royce Da 5’9 D2. The Cycle feat. Joel Ortiz D3. Right Here feat. Bilal
Ranil Y Su Conjunto Tropical - Ranil's Jungle Party LP (Masstropics)
Available Here On LP
Deeply funky psychedelic-surf guitar jams from Ranil y Su Conjunto Tropical (Ranil and his Tropical Band). Ranil’s Jungle Party (re-released for the first time by folks at Masstropicas and limited to 1,000 copies) brings back from the past the much loved popular music of Peruvian cumbia.
For the uninitiated, Peruvian (or Amazonian) cumbia was to Peru as Tropicália was to Brazil—a 1960s – 1970s popular music style that mixed (often irreverently) traditional music with those of African and the West. Hailing from the Belen district of Iquitos, nestled within the heart of the Amazonian rainforest, Ranil and Co. were definitely digging on some Western Surf music while keeping alive the traditional highland “huayño†dance music.
On Ranil’s Jungle Party, Ranil and his Tropical Band keep things in a mellow, funky mood with some heavy psych-surf guitar workouts. The result is a style mash-up not unlike that of African “Juju†or “High-Life†music, popularized by the incendiary Stratocaster guitar playing of King Sunny Adé. In fact, think of Ranil’s Jungle Party as King Sunny Adé jamming with some Andes dudes while on vacation in Peru. Dig?
Stand out tracks include “Marlenita†with its highly melodic guitar riff and frenetic percussion and “Chinito rulo†which grooves in an Eastern drone / psych fashion and the beautifully melodic electric 12-string of “Tus cabellosâ€. It’s largely an instrumental affair but Ranil steps up to the mic for “Denuncia a tu Pátronâ€, “El manicero†and “Carboneroâ€.
Masstropicas worked with Ranil on this vinyl LP re-release (his records were originally produced and released by himself on his own label) and we look forward to more in the future.
Track Listing
(click for audio samples)- 1. Andalucia
- 2. Marlenita
- 3. Lamento en la AmazonÃa
- 4. Denuncia a tu patrón
- 5. La danza de don Lucho
- 6. Cumbia sin nombre
- 7. Chinito rulo
- 8. Mambo en España
- 9. Tus cabellos
- 10. El manicero
- 11. Carbonero
- 12. El rondador
Upcoming: V/A - Proximity One : Narrative Of A City LP (PROXIMAL RECORDS)
Available very soon, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz or on (09) 360 1999
Their debut release, Proximity One: Narrative of a City, takes the listener through the musical landscape of Los Angeles as they hear it. With a disregard for popularity and scene, Proximity One juxtaposes established and upand- coming talent and the result is a cohesive and inspired record. Proximity One: Narrative of a City features L.A. staples such as DaMFunK and Daedelus, current beat-makers such as Teebs and TOKiMonsta, and Proximal’s very own Sahy Uhns, Benedek, Lawrence Grey, Wake and BearClaw. With vision, talent and a commitment to the city of Los Angeles, Proximal Records will always be a step apart and a step ahead.
Tracklisting with Soundclips: 1. Benedek - Laser Forest 2. Dâm-Funk - A Day at the Carnival 3. Sahy Uhns - Fire Music 4. TOKiMONSTA - Cigarette Lust 5. Owen Vallis - Trunk 6. Juj - Creep 7. Lawrence Grey - Peaches for the Baby 8. Wake - ButtaBump 9. Shlohmo - Glue Stick 10. Suzuki 8-Ball - Nine-Wing 11. Teebs - Wind Loop 12. Take - Conversations With Yesterday 13. Dead Waiter & Eli Walks - VI 14. BearClaw - Robotrimpin 15. Denny Denny Breakfast - Sea Water 16. Daedelus - Off Angles Edges 17. Dr. Strangeloop - Strange Utopia 18. [Post-foetus] - Chasms 19. Dâm-Funk - A(nother) Day at the Carnival (Sahy Uhns’ Cosmic Song Bird Remix) 20. Sahy Uhns - Proximity One:Mega(re)mix
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