Recently I found us a bunch of Colombian singles.
It seemed only logical to digitize them and make
another ‘Seven 7 inches’ compilation. Check out
Andres Landero, Nafer Duran, Enrique Diaz,
Juan Mercado, Manuel Caraballo and others.

tracks;

1 Andres Landero – El caracoli
2 Andres Landero – Los ricos estan completos
3 Nafer Duran – Con sentimiento
4 Nafer Duran – El rezo
5 Anibal Velasquez – Dejala que sufra
6 Anibal Velasquez – Lejos de ti
7 Enrique Diaz – De caja negra
8 Enrique Diaz – El porvenir
9 Juan Mercado – La que se traba
10 Juan Mercado – Pelo parado
11 Alejandro Duran – Las sirvientas modernas
12 Alejandro Duran – Vidita mia
13 Manuel Caraballo – La luna pisotia
14 Manuel Caraballo – Dolor profundo

Dear music collectors, vinyl hunters and lovers of tropical
sounds, as some of you may know, I am a fanatic hunter
for all types of lp’s from the old days. As such I tend to
visit the biggest recordfairs we have around, like the one
in Utrecht twice a year. On the last few visits I have met
with the guys from Vintage Voudou. It is a tiny recordshop
in the heart of the Amsterdam redlight-district. You have
to know where to look, right between the windows where
various women offer themselves you’ll find a gate, ring a
bell and go through a small corridor to find two very small
recordshops. One of them is Vintage Voudou, the adress
is Oudekerkplein 26a, only on thursday, friday and satur-
day you’ll find them open. When I got there I met with Alex,
one of the owners, we sat down and had a huge conversation
about our favourite music. I found lots of Colombian albums
at his place, really wonderful. We listened to the music,
smoked a few pipes and spent some hours like that. Alex
then gave me the number of another friend, he told me to
check out the records of Sanjay Agarwal. Sanjay is the man,
he travells to Colombia a lot, meets with the artists and made
a documentary about Colombian music, take a look at the
trailer of his documentary called Colombian Gold.

A few days ago I payed Sanjay a visit in his Amsterdam appartment
and we had a great afternoon listening to lots of Colombian music,
talking about it and some of the hottest Colombian stuff changed of
owner that day. For those who live close to Amsterdam, on saturday
may 18th Alex is going to deejay a Latin-night at Blijburg, a very hip
joint in the Zeeburg area of Amsterdam. Since his buddy Sanjay can’t
make it to join him, I offered to step in, so if you see a chance, pop by
and come have a dance and a drink. Take a look at Blijburg It will be
an evening of latin music, strictly from vinyl, it starts at 22.00 hrs. Be there !
The lp I am posting is one I found at Vintage Voudou and was imported
by Sanjay. One of my favourite groups is absolutely la Sonora Cordobesa,
listen to this lp and agree, sweet porro, jalaito, paseaito and mapalé
you don’t want to miss, get it & spread it !

tracks;

1 Jalaito en monteria
2 El loriquero
3 La mafafa
4 Bocachico sinuano
5 Rosita
6 Nenita linda
7 Tumba cucharo
8 Linda cordobesa
9 No me pongas sebo
10 Santa lucia
11 Cara mona
12 El pascuero

Hello and good morning on this Easterday. I think it’s for the first
time we are having us a white Easter. Even with Chrsitmas we
had better weather, it’s cold and snowing on this 31st of march.
Spring just doesn’t realise we’re already entering april tomorrow.

Winter or spring, we play tropical music all year round so that
makes no difference. Today I’ll spoil you with some ‘Tropical de
Colombia’. From 1975 on Discos Fuentes de Medellin Colombia
we’ve got this wonderful album by Los Corraleros de Majagual.
This supergroup had relations with the most fantastic artists.
On this album alone we find Lisandro Meza, Eliseo Herrera,
Julio Erazo and Calixto Ochoa to name just a few. But they
also hosted Alfredo Gutierrez, Lucho Argain and Nacho
Paredes among many others. Great vocalists, hot
rhythmsection and horns, better don’t miss..

tracks;

1   El vivo y el bobo
2   El pobre pollo
3   El bailador
4   Mosaico
–    Mata de caña
–    Trigueñita
–    La tombola
5   Mosaico
–    Spanish flea
–    La chichera
6   La burrita
7   Palma de coco
8   Mosaico
–    Cartagenera
–    La cola del diablo
–    El machorrito
–    Yo conozco a claudia
9   Pompo del 66
10  Charanga internacional

Once I got acquainted with this type of music, there
was no way of stopping that train. A whole new territory
to explore, the Discos Fuentes 1970’s brought loads of
sweet cumbia. It took some time to find but recently we got
real lucky. Take this here lp, Alfredo Gutierrez joined with
us in 2008 with one album, october 23rd. Always on the
lookout for Fuentes, last fair made me a happy man. At
last, a small pile of Colombian treasure found it’s way
and ended on this fools shelf. Nacho Paredes is the
singer on this one, marvelous voices,
rolling beats & golden accordeons..

tracks;

1   Cumbia sampuesana
2   La amapola
3   Prende la vela
4   Cumbia colombia
5   Guepa-je
6   Cumbia loca
7   La folklorica
8   Cumbia china
9   Panameña
10  Adorada socorro

Good evening, the groove of today is going to be a Colombian
one. On Discos Curro we have us an album with songs by three
groups. Orquesta Melodia, La Sonora Curro and Super Combo
de Curramba. It is not exactly clear what band plays which song.
The cover does not give that information nor does the label of the
record. How ever they organised it, I don’t really care. The music is
so hot, it makes one forget such futilities. So get it and spread it,
it is one of the hottest Colombian sounds I ever heard, enjoy..

tracks;

1   Palenquerita
2   Arroz con coco
3   Jalaito moreno
4   Avivata
5   El tigre pampanilla
6   Pon tu mano en mi corazón
7   Que toque rufo
8   Ah… como no sabia
9   Taki taki
10  La carestía
11  Moncho emiliani
12  No fumo

Thought you would like some good weather music.
This is the happiest latin ever, listen
to another Colompilation..

tracks;

1   Andrés Landero y su Conjunto – La cigarrona
2   Los Corraleros de Majagual – El vampiro
3   Climaco Sarmiento y su Orquesta – La cigarra
4   Comb Sampuesano – La pisinga
5   Lisandro Meza y su Conjunto – Las cosas de la vida
6   Los Hermanos Marquez – Yo conozco a Claudia
7   Andrés Landero y su Conjunto – Cumbia enlaIndia
8  LaSonora Cordobesa – San Carlos
9   Alfredo Gutierrez y su Conjunto – Panameña
10  Los Corraleros de Majagual – La palma de coco
11  Andrés Landero – Mi machete
12  Los Teen Agers – La pata pela
13  Los Corraleros de Majagual – Tres tigres
14  Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros – La compatible
15  Los Corraleros de Majagual – La sampa
16  Pedro Laza y sus pelayeros – El sabanero
17  Los Corraleros de Majagual – Del tingo al tango

For this saturday a re-up and re-post. Anibal Velasquez is still one of
Colombia’s biggest artists. I read somewhere he made over 300 records
a huge amount. Still performing, he turns places upside-down. If you
ever get the chance to see him perform do not hesitate and buy that
ticket instantly. I hope to get that chance myself one fine day.
For now, enjoy this oldie but very goodie oncemore, check # 8.

tracks;

1   Que ojos
2   La caracucha
3   Que se muera
4   Mi barquita
5   La muerte de Anibal
6   Te la vi
7   Palito seco
8   Pobre y viejo
9   Mi suegra
10   La muerte de Bartola
11   La que se fue
12   Mi comadre

Okay, let’s see, Blogger made some big mistake
while updating their website and my two latest posts
got lost somehow. I’m not gonna sit and wait so here
they are once more. In a while they restore them and
we have them two times all of a sudden. We’ll see
what happens. Anyway, enjoy Colompilation 5 again.

tracks;

1 Tonu Zuñiga – El palito de aji
2 Eliseo Herrero – La adivinanza
3 Guillermo Buitrago – Dame tu mujer José
4 Andrés Landero – Cumbia cumbe
5 Calixto Ochoa – Mata’e caña
6 Nora Tatis – Caimán gallizano
7 Juancho Polo Valencia – El sombrerito
8 Jairo Likasale – El sapo muerde
9 Crescencio Camacho – Compadrito
10 Lisandro Meza – Las Africanas
11 Jimmy Pedrozo – Negrito Cayaya
12 El Pibe Velasco – Palenquerita
13 Orchestra Edmundo Arias – Ligia
14 Ramón Vargas – Alegria Costeña
15 Plutarco Urrutia – Esperando a Patricia
16 Julio Erazo – Espumita del rio
17 Nora Tatis – La tabaquera

If you are familiar with Discos Fuentes de Colombia you
know that pretty women go together with their music. So
when I thought about a cover for this collector of Colombian
sounds, the choice was easily made. It’s all about the music
of course and you know I’m serious,
..ahem, let’s dance till dawn.

tracks;

1 Calixto Ochoa – Amor sincero
2 Ramón Vargas – Alegría Costeña
3 Lisandro Meza y Conjunto – El guayacan
4 La Sonora Cordobesa – Pero dame eso
5 Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros – La boquillera
6 Guillermo Buitrago – El amor de Claudia
7 Alfredo Gutierrez – Paloma guarumera
8 La Sonora Dinamita – Feliciana
9 Rufo Garrido – La vaca vieja
10 Andrés Landero – Dejame gozar la vida
11 Los Golden Boys – La negra Celina
12 Clímaco Sarmiento – La borrachona
13 Andrés Landero – Perdi las abarcas
14 Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros – La cosecha de mujeres
15 Alfonso Piña Cogollo – El doctor
16 Miguel Duran – India matea

Did you enjoy that Colombian compilation I called ‘Cumbia Sabrosa’?
You can find it back on may 31, 2008, in our archives. It contained
that hot track, ‘Colombia tierra querida’. Lucho Bermudez was one of
the orchestral leaders that wrote history. Check out this album with
the traditional pretty lady cover. Gaita, porro, merengue, paseo,
cumbia and bolero by one of Colombia’s master composers.

tracks

1 La gaita de las flores
2 Miguelito
3 Lina
4 Lo mas lindo que yo tengo
5 Tierra mia
6 Muchachas Colombianas
7 Maqueteando
8 Hasta luego Medellin
9 Me gustas
10 Mosaico Colombiano