Recently, my mother had asked me to explain my passion for music created years before I was born. Now I mentioned in the previous post that Ruben Blades, El Gran Combo, and Frankie Ruiz influenced my interest in salsa. However, I now collect from a specific era and rarely listen to those artists (aside from visiting my brother and being stuck listening to the same Frankie Ruiz cd all day). Generally, I’ll collect salsa albums released between ’68 and ’75 (I’ll explain this at some future time). I say albums because most artists had a formula that usually included a guajira and bolero. Through collecting I gained a great deal of appreciation for these forms of latin music, which I believe is what surprised my mother the most. I’m sure I gave her some generic answer about how the music makes me feel when I dance but the true answer came in the form of mixes. I made a bunch of mixes for her that we would talk about on our rides to and from the commuter rail. As I got a better feel for her musical taste, she slowly put aside her Fruko and Frankie Ruiz compilations and began exclusively giving airplay to DJ Walt Presents. Without knowing it, she found her answer when she proclaimed “Uy... esta cancion me facina! (Oh... I love this song!)”
My hope is that through my mixes I can help others discover this wonderful music we call Salsa Clasica! It’s the reason why most of my friends will usually receive random emails proclaiming the dopeness of a song. When you listen to some of these songs, you’ll understand, as my mother did, where my passion for this music comes from.
My hope is that through my mixes I can help others discover this wonderful music we call Salsa Clasica! It’s the reason why most of my friends will usually receive random emails proclaiming the dopeness of a song. When you listen to some of these songs, you’ll understand, as my mother did, where my passion for this music comes from.
With that, I’ll leave you with a song my mother is sure to love! Con La Misma Moneda is off the Quieres Salsa? …Tomala! album by the Venezulen band, Orquesta Los Juniors.
This album is on the top of my list for its hard hitting, rough sound (stay tuned for review). As the name of the album suggests, the cow bells of this song have the “in your face” quality that got my mother hooked. For some reason, Colombians (at least my family) tend to love them some cow bells in your ear! I’m sure to put this song on Mom’s next mix.
Stay tuned for my next mix: Buscando Un Tema
Peace
DJ Walt
Stay tuned for my next mix: Buscando Un Tema
Peace
DJ Walt
1 comment:
I'm liking the cowbell on the track - it's strong, but for some reason, it seems better fitting than some in tracks - maybe it's the sound fitting the round sound of the track? Having a lower pitch really does help I think too - for my ear a higher pitch cowbell really can grate.
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