Just figred out how to record onto this old laptop and thought I'd post something, would of done more but I'm already late to where I needs to be, maybe I'll post more later.
Hermanos Romero ??? 15 Exitos (Oasis)
Years ago I got stuck with jury duty in the city of El Monte. After spending about 4 hours sitting a room doing nothing they excused us for lunch and I went to the outdoor mall across the street from the courthouse. There was some norteno music blaring out of a store with a sign that said ???Musica??? so I went in and asked in my broken Spanish ???esta discos???? Guy behind the counter told me the stopped selling records years ago so I walked towards the door, just as I stepped outside he said ???now we just keep them all in the back???. Thus begun a three-day adventure in which I went through the dead stock of a store for the first time. One of the oddest finds was this Hermanos Romero LP, it looks to be a greatest hits but I???ve never found any info about any albums from them outside of this. The album has your standard norteno/ tejano type vibe but is broken up with instrumental covers of songs like K-Jee and ???Smoke on the Water???. Theres something kind of amazing anout a funky, cheesy horn laden Deep Purple cover.
Listen: DivShare File - Smoke on the Aqua.mp3
Mike Burke ??? Bathing in the Raw (Pajulqr)
Remember when record stores had dollar bins littered with odd-looking records? There was this store in Pasadena that would just throw anything into their bin and I was lucky enough to work across the street. I'd stop in multiple times a week and leave just a few dollars poorer but my crates were always full of new strange private presses. This record is one of those LPs, some weird white boy with a blonde seventies pornstache sitting in a bucket of water with a bunch of keystone cops standing around? Looks questionable, but what makes it go from just being some strange looking boner album to worthwhile is the track ???Don???t Worry??? with its haunting organ and piano melody and his off-key yet charming slow jam vocals.
Listen: DivShare File - Mike Burke.mp3
Saint Tropez ??? Hot n??? Nasty (Destiny)
The third release from Saint Tropez, a group made up of three ladies that look like the bridge between Studio 54 regulars and Robert Palmers ???Addicted to Love??? video chicks. I picked this up based on the strength of it being on the Destiny label; a smaller Los Angeles company that???s rarely led me astray. This album didn't disappoint with a great version of Leon Haywood???s ???I Want to Do Something Freaky To You??? complete with the extended intro that sounds completely different from Leon's but equally as good. The album was produced by the modern soul/ disco duo of Rinder & Lewis and another fun element is the back cover which has an editors note pointing out something about a murder, interpol and gaining clues by buying their other two albums.
Listen: http://youtu.be/ceM1xPlAIkI
Like People ??? ???Sound of Young Los Angeles (SOYLA)
This album is a compilation of local LA groups that were all part of an organization S.O.Y.L.A. In doing an Internet search I found that the group is still up and running in Inglewood. This album was recorded in the early-to-mid-seventies and features artists doing tracks that range from funk to folk. Personal favorites include the two funk tracks ???Cold Duck??? by the group of the same name and ???Ram Shack Pt. 1 & 2??? by the group Invaders Underground. On the sweet soul tip there???s the mellow ???Fantasy of Love??? by The Profits that would fit in perfectly on any of the East Side Story comps.
Listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AvPX-CqtnA
Hermanos Romero ??? 15 Exitos (Oasis)
Years ago I got stuck with jury duty in the city of El Monte. After spending about 4 hours sitting a room doing nothing they excused us for lunch and I went to the outdoor mall across the street from the courthouse. There was some norteno music blaring out of a store with a sign that said ???Musica??? so I went in and asked in my broken Spanish ???esta discos???? Guy behind the counter told me the stopped selling records years ago so I walked towards the door, just as I stepped outside he said ???now we just keep them all in the back???. Thus begun a three-day adventure in which I went through the dead stock of a store for the first time. One of the oddest finds was this Hermanos Romero LP, it looks to be a greatest hits but I???ve never found any info about any albums from them outside of this. The album has your standard norteno/ tejano type vibe but is broken up with instrumental covers of songs like K-Jee and ???Smoke on the Water???. Theres something kind of amazing anout a funky, cheesy horn laden Deep Purple cover.
Listen: DivShare File - Smoke on the Aqua.mp3
Mike Burke ??? Bathing in the Raw (Pajulqr)
Remember when record stores had dollar bins littered with odd-looking records? There was this store in Pasadena that would just throw anything into their bin and I was lucky enough to work across the street. I'd stop in multiple times a week and leave just a few dollars poorer but my crates were always full of new strange private presses. This record is one of those LPs, some weird white boy with a blonde seventies pornstache sitting in a bucket of water with a bunch of keystone cops standing around? Looks questionable, but what makes it go from just being some strange looking boner album to worthwhile is the track ???Don???t Worry??? with its haunting organ and piano melody and his off-key yet charming slow jam vocals.
Listen: DivShare File - Mike Burke.mp3
Saint Tropez ??? Hot n??? Nasty (Destiny)
The third release from Saint Tropez, a group made up of three ladies that look like the bridge between Studio 54 regulars and Robert Palmers ???Addicted to Love??? video chicks. I picked this up based on the strength of it being on the Destiny label; a smaller Los Angeles company that???s rarely led me astray. This album didn't disappoint with a great version of Leon Haywood???s ???I Want to Do Something Freaky To You??? complete with the extended intro that sounds completely different from Leon's but equally as good. The album was produced by the modern soul/ disco duo of Rinder & Lewis and another fun element is the back cover which has an editors note pointing out something about a murder, interpol and gaining clues by buying their other two albums.
Listen: http://youtu.be/ceM1xPlAIkI
Like People ??? ???Sound of Young Los Angeles (SOYLA)
This album is a compilation of local LA groups that were all part of an organization S.O.Y.L.A. In doing an Internet search I found that the group is still up and running in Inglewood. This album was recorded in the early-to-mid-seventies and features artists doing tracks that range from funk to folk. Personal favorites include the two funk tracks ???Cold Duck??? by the group of the same name and ???Ram Shack Pt. 1 & 2??? by the group Invaders Underground. On the sweet soul tip there???s the mellow ???Fantasy of Love??? by The Profits that would fit in perfectly on any of the East Side Story comps.
Listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AvPX-CqtnA
