Salsa y Mas 2005-06 mix available now

and the few of your suggestions from the old rolling salsa thread that i have actually gotten hold of have been totally fuckin awesome

so i wd love a copy

"CRUCIAL SONIDOS. Recently Tego Calderón insisted that a new wave of salsa music was slowly emerging in Puerto Rico. Even if he wasn't specifically referring to two new releases from Sony Discos by NG 2 ("Al Fín!") and Kiuldret ("Corazón Enamorado"), they seem to be the tip of that iceberg. Both albums are done with an anti-romántica flavor, and Kiuldret, who features a duet with young salseros N'Klabe on her album, seems positioned to give La India a run for her money as the queen of salsa." http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/ny-fflat5005525dec10,0,3896643.story?coll=ny-music-print

I think my "I've been listening to this genre for eight years now, and I'm not going to cut it so much slack any more" module is kicking in. That's what seems to happen. Not that I haven't been critical before, but I'm just feeling a lot pickier about it. From the less commercially slick side of things, there have been yet more albums featuring mainly covers of old classics (involding the usual suspects), and while they may or may not be good, I'm not going to go buying them automatically.

The new El Gran Combo album, Arroz con Habichuela, has a couple songs I really like. I'm still making up my mind about the rest.

Actually the recent Latin CD that I'm most interested in buying at the moment is this rumba one (which is either all female or mostly female): http://www.camajan.com/catal1/7162a.htm

That blog also has up a new song by Elvis Crespo and his old band-mates Grupo Mania (I didn't know that). I like it.)

I've actually been listening to a little more Latin(-jazz) stuff, saw Eddie Palmieri the other week and got some Conrad Herwig records.

i've made it a sorta-resolution to learn this winter and spring. I'm spending a couple months in an unfamiliar city and I'm thinking it might be a way to both meet people and learn something.

The rest of you: I will let you know in a bit. I was out for a while.

It's actually gmail but the first half is correct.

01 - Michael Stuart - Mayor Que Yo
02 - Sonora Carusseles - Al Alacran
03 - Isidro Infante [canta: Jose "EL CANARIO" Albero]: Pegaso
04 - Juicy & Eric - La Paga
05 - Guayacan Orquesta - A Cali
06 - Monchy & Alexandra - No Es Una Novela
07 - Alfredo de La Fe/Fruko - Somos los reyes del mundo
08 - Galera 7 Sur - Azuquita Mami
09 - Sos Lazaga - Chango
10 - Mayito Rivera - Negrito Bailador
11 - Andy Montanez [w/ Voltio] - En Mi Puertorro ["Locos por Mi Habana"]
12 - Andy Montanez [w/ Daddy Yankee] - Se Le Ve
13 - Michael Stuart - Noche de Travesura
14 - Tego Calderon - Chango Blanco
15 - Ismaelito Rivera y Rafaelito Cortijo - Buena Gente [I think that was the one. . .]
16 - El Gran Combo - Arroz con Habichuela

Alberto, even

whatever mp3 player software you're using probably has a way to create a playlist file ( .fpl or .m3u or something like that) from what you're listening to. in other words, you open these songs, arrange them in the order you like, and then save or export a playlist file. then other programs can read it to know how to arrange the files. but whatever, it's not a big deal.

:-)

Seriously, I will experiment.