eXCLUSIVE - eL Stinkeyes - BrOwn AcId mIx vOL. 4 - "lA hiStOriA dE AmOr" (2012)

The art of the Latin American ballads and boleros is almost unrivaled in its strength and emotion. These are just "awful" songs of love and longing. To me the irony comes from the fact that in the land of "Machismo" there are these boys cranking out the most pussy whipped music to exist. I mean, talk about your ultimate break up mix tape you listened to in high school. This newest Brown Acid installation highlights on those vintage psychedelic sounds of said boleros and ballads and also some slow jams as well. Reverberated vocals, twangy guitar licks, warm farfisas, phantom fuzzes, and some strut-worthy basslines.

Now take your left hand and hold your heart and with your right hand clench the air in front of your face. Then proceed to shake that right fist to the lyrics.

 

TRACKLIST:

1.) Rodolfo - Como Deseo Ser Tu Amor

2.) Ana y Jaime - A Veces Quisiera Ser Ciego

3.) Os Brasas - Beija Mi Agora 

4.) Freddy Fender - Como un Errante

5.) Los Angeles Negros - Como Quisiera Decirte

6.) Los Pasteles Verdes - No Te Das Quenta

7.) Sandro - Dame

8.) Ana y Jaime - Historia de Amor

9.) Rodolfo - Te Quiero y Que

10.) Los Angeles Negros - Murio La Flor

11.) Os Brasas - Meu Eterno Amor

12.) Rodolfo - Buscando Amor

13.) Sandro - Palabras Viejas

14.) Los Angeles Negros - Amor Por Ti

15.) Rodolfo - Incertidumbre

16.) Ana y Jaime - Cafe y Petroleo

17.) Sandro - Trigal

18.) Chico Buarque & Ennio Morricone - Lei no, Lei Sta Ballando

19.) Freddy Fender - Desde Que Conosco

20.) Los Apsons - Dime Por Que

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eXCLUSIVE - eL Stinkeyes - Brown Acid Mix Vol. 3 - "eL verAnO sUdOrOsO" (2012)

 

You might have been wondering where I've been these past months. I've been wondering what this giraffe/donkey baby is gonna look like. Fair enough?

No?

Well, how about this? Heavy start on the chicha into psychedelic latin heat, and some good old fashioned latino beat mix. Forgive me if I'm lacking certain information about these artist. These hard drives and stuffed to the nines with files that shuffled around.

TRACKLIST:

1.) Los Mirlos - El Tingotero 

2.) Popi y Su Piranas - Lamento

3.) Los Pakines - Crema de Cerezas

4.) Los Destellos - La Aranita

5.) Los Mirlos - Cumbia y Guitarra

6.) Grupo Impacto - La Farra

7.) Los Mirlos - Lamento En La Selva

8.) Afrosound - Platico Chino Chino

9.) Los Destellos - Azuquito (Great cover of "It Hurts To Say Goodbye.")

10.) Manzanita y Su Conjunto - Asi Asi Asi

11.) Eusebio y Su Banjo - Psicosis

12.) El Timba - Descarga Bontempi

13.) Los Chikicaka - Musica Mulata

14.) Los Comandos - Mas de Ti

15.) Los Belkings - Sinfonia Para Una Manana

16.) Los Pasteles Verdes - Angelito Negros

17.) Los Saicos - Come On

18.) Los Apson - Dime Por Que

19.) Leo Dan - Yo Se Que No Es Feliz

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eXCLUSIVE - eL Stinkeyes - "Psychedelic Passport Mix" (2011)

Finally got my Ableton software back up and running and automatically made this skin tight mixtape of vintage world psyche. Who knows what these guys are singing about? Who cares? Don't really feel like writing out a track list right now but i can tell you get at least 20 jams in about a hour. 

Thats good, BTW.

Take

TRACKLIST:

1.) Novos Bahianos - Globo Do Morto

2.) Fabio - Lindo Sonho Delirante (LSD)

3.) Ana Y Jaime - Nina Nana

4.) M. Ashraf - Life Hai Kuch Dinon Ki (Nevermind)

5.) Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir - Ever Since

6.) Zia - Heleyos

7.) Jeanne Marie Sens - Tape Tape Tape

8.) Tomorrow - The Incredible Journey of Timothy Chase

9.) Alessandro Alessandroni - Devil's Nightmare

10.) Rodolfo Aicardi con Los Liricos - Naila

11.) Los Pasteles Verdes - Baby

12.) Wanda Jackson - Searchin'

13.) Siluetler - Lorke Lorke 

14.) Erkin Koray - Hor Gorme Garibi

15.) Os Brasas - Nao Va Me Dexiar

16.) Mavil Isiklar - Iyi Dusun Tusin

17.) Quarteto Nova Era - De Repente

18.) Rodolfo - Has Regresando Viejo Amigo

Meet Rodolfo - Compiled by eL Stinkeyes

Kids, meet Senor Rodolfo Aicardi. He's a Columbian singer known for his ballads and boleros but also his versatility as well. I got hip to this guy by my old buddy over at Level One Studios.

I was asleep in a van and woke up to this old echoing twangy guitar (dig!) on top of a smooth bolero beat (dig!) and then enters Rodolfo's undeniable voice saturated in some vintage third world reverb. Someone give that man a trophy. 

Incertidumbre by Rodolfo by elstinkeyes

I mean, come on! The guy sits around pictures of himself and plays guitar.

Down below is a compilation hand-picked by yours truly that tries to stay true to his weird fuzzy, psychedelic, hazy ballad period, which by the way was never really accepted in Columbia. 

Disco Fuentes owns his catalog.

VIVA RODOLFO!

Juan Torres - Organo Melodico de Juan Torres

Somewhere between a Mexican baseball game and a seaside lounge Juan Torres holds his eternal residency entertaining lovers and loners with his witty arrangements of classic Mexican standards on his eerily romantic melodic organ. Under the musical microscope, este vato is holding a revolution on Latin American music traditions of the time with his stylized versions of rancheras, boleros, and swanky swingin' 6/8 numbers.

Feliz Navidad

eXCLUSIVE - eL Stinkeyes - "Poder de Chicha 2 Mix" (2010)

Its that time of year folks. We're all gorging ourselves for the winter. Maximizing our fat reserves for the coming months. Would you like more starch with your starch? Seconds? Thirds? Elevensies? Save room for dessert mijo. And the gravy flows like a thick brown iridescent Angel Falls. What better way to say goodbye to the golden warmth of the sun than with one more mixtape of those tropical Chicha jams. I've logged many hours these past few months, searching the dregs, combing the fine mesh of the internet to bring us a new stable of tracks to play into the dirt. I've surprised myself with this years harvest. New names. New faces. New tones. "New." Some of these remind me of the time I traveled in Peru back in 2001. Especially when I was on the northern coast. I definitely remember riding a bus around Huanchaco with the conductor blasting a tiny boombox to the point where it was breaking up and distorting but it still sounded awesome. I had no idea at the time that that was this that I'm collecting these days. I just thought it was some weird sounding cumbias. Having said that, I'll shut up.

Tracklist:

1.) Los Ecos - Aqui en la fiesta (I don't want to spoil the party)

2.) Los Walkers - Siboney

3.) Los Orientales - Tormentosa

4.) Los Destellos - Cumbia de Desierto

5.) Popi y sus Pirasas - Guayaba

6.) Aniceto y sus Fabuloso - Cumbia de Machaguay

7.) Los Mirlos - Tiro al Blanco

8.) Eusebio y sus Banjo - Banjo Pannadero

9.) Jose y sus Antillanos - Melodia Antillano

10.) Los Pakines - Estacion 76

11.) Los Mirlos - Makumba

12.) Grupo Flash - Infierno Verde

13.) Los Orientales de Paramonga - Machete ala Casa

14.) Los Mirlos - Cumbia Thriller

15.) Los Tigres de Tarapoto - El Tunchi Loco

16. Grupo Maravilla - Danza, Bruja, Danza

TOMALA

Pacho Galan - El Rey de Merecumbe

Once again, good ole' fashioned Colombian Brass Band music from the Discos Fuentes label. Basically Merecumbe is "a mixture of native cumbia merengue with the department of Magdalena, and Dominican merengue." That's what this guy said and he invented the genre. 



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Julio Jaramillo - Pasillos para el Mundo (circa 1950's-1960's)

One time during one of my Mexico explorations, I was on the beach in Oaxaca. It was mother's day. I was hanging out in the shade at the cabana I was renting, surrounded by a bunch of little old Mexican women. All of the men were running around cooking, working, serving, etc. The ladies just sat back and relaxed enjoying their day, retelling stories of their youth and the soundtrack for the day was endless cassettes of this man.

Julio Jaramillo is to Ecuador as Frank Sinatra is to New Jersey. King of the pasillos and boleros with a birthday as a national holiday. He leaves behind at least 20 legitimate and illegitimate children. If I was in Latin America in the 50's with a talent like this, I would be getting mad trim as well.

Aqui

eXCLUSIVE - eL Stinkeyes - "Caimán en Celo Mix" (2010)

Technically the air in central Texas should be classified as a solid rather than a gas these days. Hot. Thick. Swampy. Its what our Louisiana neighbors call "Alligator Hot" or something you'd experience in Latin American jungles. That's why I'm not doing shit. My adaptations to my environment are achieving vampirical status. The sun is my mortal enemy and I long for dusk just to remerge from my hermitage and revel in the power of the night, and usually my PM activities are festive in nature and any night can be treated as a "Michelob Weekend." Ergo, this mix. Its got a little afro-beat, a little cuban funk, cumbias, my obligatory chicha tangent and some weirdness as usual. I was gonna call this mix "Browntown"(which is what I refer to any non-western music, specifically Latin America and Africa where music and dance is just like food and drink: essential.) but chose "Alligators in Heat." Sweaty good times.


Tracklist:

1.) Algo Nuevo/Juan Pablo Torres - Y Viva La Felicidad
2.) Mulatu Astatke - I Faram Gami I Faram
3.) Eric Showboy Akaeze & His Royal Ericos - We Dey Find Money
4.) Jovens Do Prendo - Coio
5.) Madman Jaga - Hankuri
6.) Mulatu Astatke - Asiyo Bellema
7.) Gonjasufi - Sheep
8.) Sobanza Mimanisa - Kiwembo
9.) Los Zafiros - Rumba Como Quiera
10.) Los Wawanco - La Burrita
11.) Armando Hernandez Y Su Conjunto - La Zeniada
12.) The Tropical Combo - Quinceanera
13.) Aniceto y Sus Fabulosos - Cumbia de Machaguey
14.) Eusebio y Su Banjo - Mi Morena Rebelde
15.) Popi y Su Piranas - Guayaba
16.) Los Sanders - Linda Mujeres
17.) Los Pakines - Estacion 76
18.) Los Walkers - La Pampa y La Puna
19.) Los Mirlos - La Danza del Petrolero
20.) Kampala Group - La Yuca Raya
21.) Nicanor Lobaton con El Conjunto Gente Morena - El Payande


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A Very Special Request - Los Destellos

One of my favorites from the Chicha scene and also one of the trailblazers of the genre itself. All of this is owed to Enrique Delgado, the band's director and founder. His vision and his unique guitar style molded the Peruvian cumbias that we all love today. Here is all of my Los Destellos I could scrounge up from my hard drives.


Your welcome.

Meet Sandro - Compiled by eL Stinkeyes (2010)

Let's state the obvious. I'm a sucker for anything old and latino. So, in honor of Sandro's passing I compiled my picks from the 4 out of 50 something records he made. "Pintados Por Dios" is worth the download itself. We'll call it "Beat Latino." Here's to The Argentine Elvis. He has officially left the casa.




Meet Sandro

Los Belkings - (I really have no idea what the name of this record is.)

In September 2001, a young eL Stinkeyes applied for his Egyptian Visa. I saved up all my monies, planning on checking out the pyramids and temples, go swimming in the Red Sea, you know the whole "Egypt thing." A couple of days later I wake up to a phone call. It's my mother. She sounds really upset and she asking me if I'm okay. "Of course." I say half asleep. "What do you mean?" "You don't know? Terrorist flew a plane into the World Trade Center and it's on fire." This is just too surreal and I'm still half asleep and I finally convince my mother that there are no terrorist at my front door and hop on my bike to ride down the street to my friends house who has a TV. I didn't have one at the time. This is not a "where were you the day..?" story so I'll fast forward through the carnage and brimstone and get to the part where I got back home later and checked my mail and aside from the normal mail, I received my Egyptian visa. The following week my mother called me daily, begging me not to the Middle East. Me being young and carefree thought nothing of it but through numerous guilt laden trips I finally agreed to not go to Egypt. All for my mother. So my obvious plan B was to go to Peru and see Machu Pichu. Eventually I wound at a seaside town called Trujillo where I got the most awful food poisoning ever. The worst pain ever felt in my entire life. Having said that, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Trujillo's surf rock gods, Los Belkings.



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Las Raices de la Chicha… La Leyenda Continua - Volumen 1 (2010)

Oh internets, how do I love thee. You bring the whole world together while I just sit on my ass and stare at a monitor. This compilation you see before you was sent to me from the source, my new Peruvian friend Wilmer. To summarize part of the text document in the file as well, "Chicha is more than a musical movement. It is a social movement of the mestizos." This is music of the people. I will no longer consider Lima the capital of Peru. Viva Cusco!


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eXCLUSIVE - eL Stinkeyes - Brown Acid Mix Vol 2. - "Vamos ala Go-Go Mix" (2010)

Oh the road of crate digging, analog or digital, it can be rough most of the time and the rewards are few. Listening to hours of middle of the road music just to find that one gem. Culling through the dregs of music history. Its kinda like cleaning up somebody's house after they passed away and going through a bunch of bullshit. 90% of everything winds up in the garbage while you go home with a lamp or something. Well guess what? Who passed away? Psyche rock (R.I.P.) and here is the lamp I'm bringing home to you that's gonna shed some light on the Latin American psyche scene in the 60's.

Now I must admit I'm more of a fan of the gear than the music of the 60's. I like the sound of the recordings more so the sound of the music itself. No, I dont want to hear "Satisfaction" or "Day Tripper" covered in Spanish. No, I dont care if your wearing Syd Barrett's dirty underwear dipped in LSD. Just be a young Latino and give me a hook goddamnit!


Tracklist:


1. Pina y sus Estrellas - Los Extranos
2. Los Flippers - Flipprotesta
3. Los Gatos - Que Piensas de Mi
4. Sandro y Los de Fuego - Peggy Peggy
5. Los Speakers - Borracho
6. Los 4 de la Torre -  Vuelo 502
7. Los Gatos Salvajes - Donde Vas
8. Las Quatro Monedas - Caminando por la Calle
9. Los Gatos - La Balsa
10. La Joven Guardia - Me Siento Solo
11. Los Mentales - La Calla Principal
12. Los York's - Abrazame Baby
13. Los Speakers - Mr. Spaceman
14. Sandro y Los de Fuego - Pintados por Dios
15. Los Monstruos - Hey Monstruo
16. Jeanette - Porque Te Vas
17. Los Saicos - Ana
18. Los Destellos - Guajira Sicodelica


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Juan Pablo Torres - " Algo Nuevo: Con Todos Los Hierros/Super Son" (1977)

One of the premier Cuban trombonist, Juan Pablo Torres, combines his native latin music with funk, soul, jazz, and pure quirkiness. What stands out to me on this record is Torres employing Casio sounding keyboards. Imagine if the original Super Mario Bros. were Cuban instead of Italian. "Extracto de Son" reminds me of the underwater levels of the original Nintendo game. You'll understand it when you hear this. Also, the string arrangements are so dense and dramatic but rhythmic.

The bottom line: this is so funky its hard to recognize all these details in one listen.

I've also included 2 extra tracks from a compilation that wound up on my hard drive somehow.

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eXCLUSIVE - eL Stinkeyes - "Poder de Chicha Mix" (2010)

This mix is strictly chicha. Primarily, chicha is usually a old fermented corn beverage that dates back to the Inca Empire. In the late 60's it referred to a form of peruvian pop music that fused cumbia with electric guitars, fuzz pedals, wah wahs, and farfisa. For a good historical account go here.


Tracklist:


1. Los Destellos - (Unknown)
2. Los Beltons - Cumbia Beat
3. Amor Indio - Amor Indio
4. Los Galax - Lamento de un Galax
5. Juaneco Y Su Combo - (Unknown)
6. Los Henry's - Cumbia del Amor
7. Los Destellos- (Unknown)
8. Manzanita - Serrano con Orgullo
9. Los Iguales - Sara Chaca
10. Juaneco Y Su Combo - (Unknown)
11. Los Yabar Juniors - Marionetas
12. Manzanita Y Su Conjunto - Arre Caballito
13. Los Destellos - Ronda Tropical
14. Los Mirlos - El Milagro Verde
15. Los Destellos - (Unknown)


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EXCLUSIVE - eL Stinkeyes - "Brown Acid Mix Vol. 1 - El Estilo Tranquilo" (2010)

Fact: I have way too much music. Fact: I have way too much time on my hands. So, I am now making mixtapes for the people and I am starting with a laid-back latino psyche-rock compilation.  All of these songs have been pre-approved "choice" by me. I just have a penchant for old shitty recordings, twangy guitars, echo chambers, lush string arrangements, and lost Latin American culture.

Tracklist:

1. Bichos de Candy - Tu Figura
2. The Brazilain Bites - Fas Feliz Assim
3. Os Brasas - Meu Eterno Amor
4. Los Gatos - Viento dile a la lluvia
5. O Terco - Imagem
6. Freddy Fender - Dime
7. Los Pasteles Verdes - Esclavo y Amor
8. Los Zafiros - Corazon Herdido
9. Los Blops - (Unknown)
10. Los Brincos - Sol en Julio
11. Los Gatos - Lo Olvidaras
12. Los Flippers - Las Dunas de la Arena
13. Los Angeles Negros - (Unkown)
14. Los Pasteles Verdes - Caminito
15. Os Brasas - Beija me Agora
16. Los Speakers - El Era un Amigo Mio
17. El Polen - Mi Cuerva
18. Los Nocturnos - Volvere a Buscarte


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Peregoyo y Su Combo Vacana - 1965

"The King of the Currulao"

Currulao is a African rhythm; it is employed in singing about the misfortunes of love, feasts of the saints, or for lamenting the loss of a child. After more than five centuries of neglect, the Pacific coast of Colombia, one of the country's best kept secrets is gradually beginning to shed its isolation and obscurity. This region is a "New Africa": 95% of its inhabitants are of African origin, brought there to work in the gold mines and plantations during the age of Spanish colonization. The presence of Africana in the Pacific region flourishes in myriads of surviving traditions. One of the most accessible is music.

The first orchestra to record in the whole Pacific region was undoubtedly Peregoyo back in the 1960s; for that matter the Combo Vacaná was one of the first to record Afro-Colombian music in the entire country. Peregoyo, a variant of the word "emperegoyado" that refers to a person who always looks sharp and is well dressed and groomed and so naturally a maestro, is the nickname for bandleader Enrique Urbano Tenorio. Their first long playing record was recorded live with a single microphone and released on Disco Fuentes in 1965 when Peregoyo was fourty-eight. To this day, 87 year old Peregoyo is still composing folk melodies of the Pacific coast to the indigenous rhythms of the Afro-Colombian lands.

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