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.

Desi Arnaz- Babalú

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.

ZIZEK-Soy Cumbia