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Tuesday, March 17, 2009  12:05 am 

I shall love you under the blue Puerto Rican sky

Felix from Discoteca Oceano is back to take it to the old school, enjoy this timeless music and say thanks at the bottom!

desi_arnaz

I shall begin by thanking Pablo Díaz-Reixa (aka El Guincho) for some of these discoveries.

A couple of years ago, soon after arriving in Barcelona, we went to play in a club, and to make up names in our guest list. Characters from J.G. Ballard like Bobby Crawford. But that’s another story. A song flew over my head. I was lucky when trying to define it to get it back.

Handclaps at the beginning, percussions, the rhythm, the singing it shouting it everytime we get to play it out ‘Yo quiero pedir que mi negra prefieraaaaa, que tenga dinero & que no se mueraaaaaa.

Desi Arnaz was a Cuban actor and musician that left us songs like this ‘Babalú’, undoubtedly the best version of it you shall be able to find.

Desi Arnaz- Babalú

bobbycapo

From Cuba to Puerto Rico. I shall translate the lyrics.

‘I am going to spend my honeymoon in Puerto Rico. I want to dream under the blue Puerto Rican sky. I want to steal the sun from this Antillean sun. To pin it from your chest and feel its splendour mix with your heartbeat. Yes. I am going to spend my honeymoon in Puerto Rico. I want to drag all the stars and make with them a crown to decorate your black hair. I shall love you under the blue Puerto Rican sky’.

Félix Manuel Rodríguez Capó, better known as Bobby Capó, became, with songs such as this, an idol for cubans in the 1940s. The romantic songs that he used to write made him a refuge for people living war times. Songs to sing to your girl as she lies in bed.

Bobby Capó- Luna de Miel en Puerto Rico

zizek

Cumbiaaaaaaaaaaaa. I am obsessed with the mixtape that ZIZEK collective recorded for Mad Decent. The parties that these guys throw in Argentina, mixing cumbia, electro-reggaeton, dancehall and bastard pop are apparently quite awesome. The bass rattles agressive and the drums strike clean and hard.

ZIZEK-Soy Cumbia


labels >> Bobby Capo, Desi Arnaz, Felix


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13 Comments on “I shall love you under the blue Puerto Rican sky”

  1. carlos

    Tuesday, March 17, 2009   11:07 pm

    man that babalu track is awesome, those were the days of latin music

  2. suavemente

    Wednesday, March 18, 2009   5:17 am

    Does anyone know that last song on the Soy Cumbia mix? So good.

  3. Félix

    Wednesday, March 18, 2009   8:46 am

    hey guys,

    glad you like it!

    Suavemente: the last track it’s “Totó La Momposina – Chambacú”. Amazing musician from Colombia. You have to listen “Curura” of her, amazing song as well.

    LOVE-f

  4. que lindo barrio

    Wednesday, March 18, 2009   4:40 pm

    Thank you Felix, awesome job.

  5. que lindo barrio

    Wednesday, March 18, 2009   4:53 pm

    and one more thing I think that version of Chambacu is by Aniseto Molina, again thank you for the post

  6. Félix

    Thursday, March 19, 2009   10:09 am

    Maybe que lindo barrio, probably you’re right. The original composer it’s Toto La Momposina but I never found this version. I will search the Aniseto Molina one.

    Thanks!

    Much Love,

    F

  7. Luke Rowe

    Thursday, March 19, 2009   11:36 pm

    The Bobby Capo track is my tune of the week.
    sweet.

  8. Félix

    Friday, March 20, 2009   12:52 pm

    Thanks Luke!

    Enjoy it,

    Fxxxx

  9. Officer Gammelfleisch

    Saturday, March 21, 2009   8:51 pm

    Thanks! Babalu is an old fav I haven’t heard in a long time!

  10. kf

    Monday, March 23, 2009   2:00 am

    Uh, critical: Desi Arnaz, one star of I Love Lucy.

  11. Moka

    Tuesday, March 24, 2009   7:53 am

    Babalú is a delicious song. I can feel it passing his big hands through my body and into my mouth.
    Any idea where can I find it in higher quality?

  12. Jeremy

    Thursday, March 26, 2009   6:17 pm

    I just got back from a half a year in Argentina, in Buenos Aires, and the music scene there is very strange, there’s so much cumbia that it starts to all mix together in some sort of strange endless dream. Blaring horns, the shuffling beat, becomes hypnotic and overpowering when you hear it for at least two hours a day, It makes this dance hall music into a extremely psychedelic thing. Just listening to that mix made me feel hazy and timeless. Zizek was pretty awesome too.

  13. SSSABORRR!

    Tuesday, March 31, 2009   6:33 am

    no paro de bailar cuando escucho esto
    buenas vibras! este blog es el mas!

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