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!
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.
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
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.
man that babalu track is awesome, those were the days of latin music
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 11:07 pmcarlos
Does anyone know that last song on the Soy Cumbia mix? So good.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:17 amsuavemente
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
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 8:46 amFélix
Thank you Felix, awesome job.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:40 pmque lindo barrio
and one more thing I think that version of Chambacu is by Aniseto Molina, again thank you for the post
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:53 pmque lindo barrio
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
Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:09 amFélix
The Bobby Capo track is my tune of the week.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:36 pmsweet.
Luke Rowe
Thanks Luke!
Enjoy it,
Fxxxx
Friday, March 20, 2009 12:52 pmFélix
Thanks! Babalu is an old fav I haven’t heard in a long time!
Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:51 pmOfficer Gammelfleisch
Uh, critical: Desi Arnaz, one star of I Love Lucy.
Monday, March 23, 2009 2:00 amkf
Babalú is a delicious song. I can feel it passing his big hands through my body and into my mouth.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:53 amAny idea where can I find it in higher quality?
Moka
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.
Thursday, March 26, 2009 6:17 pmJeremy
no paro de bailar cuando escucho esto
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 6:33 ambuenas vibras! este blog es el mas!
SSSABORRR!