Roots Of Salsa Vol.1 - Classic Latin Tunes Become Salsa Hits (1 LP and 1 CD)

1 LP, 1 CD

LP (Long Play)

The good old vinyl record.

CD (Compact Disc)

Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.

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Label:: Groovie
UPC/EAN:: 8435008886332
Release date:: 21.9.2017

Product Information

Some tracks have been remastered and restored and some are presented on vinyl after many years. Format and selection was designed for DJs, collectors and general public. Pablo Yglesias -aka DJ Bongohead- compiles to Grosso! Recordings an amazing serie with classics tunes from Caribbean music that became great successes of "Salsa".

"This series is born of my investigations into the music I love, digging deep into the Afro-Antillean songbook from the golden period of Latin music to unearth older - sometimes definitive or at the very least early hit renditions - of tunes that would later be covered by the next succeeding waves of salseros. That is not to say these are the first recorded versions (though some are); indeed, there is a whole other even earlier epoch of recordings, from the 1920s and 0s, which also served as fodder for future generations of Latin musicians." "The mission with this series is to choose recordings from the 1940s and 50s that not only were influential in the 1970s but also have good to excellent recording fidelity and could be an aid not only in advancing people's understanding of the origins of salsa but also serve as a DJ tool to show that there was an earlier version of a hit that the casual salsa fan may not know about. These treasures, some now forgotten and obscure, others still played in some melómano (salsa fan) circles, are representative of the earlier era of compositions and performances that would serve to inspire and shape the movement that would become a transnational symbol of Latinidad from the 1960s through the 1980s, before the next generation created their own vernacular styles for dancing and expressing their identity anew."