Actually, you don’t have to e-mail me as long as you supply a working e-mail on this thread.

this one works

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

me too, thx!

Me please. I always feel I don’t know enough about salsa being a latino and really liking it and all!

Aye, I would like this too. My email is here, just make the obvious domain change. Thanks!

Have you heard these releases Ed Morales at Newsday is touting?

“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

Haven’t heard them, no. The new NG2 seems like it might be good but these days knowing that Gilberto Santa Rosa and Victor Manuelle are involved has become a turnoff. I listened to some samples and the horns seemed a little too typical or something. Haven’t heard the Kiuldret either, but it didn’t seem like anything special. I seriously doubt Tego Calderon had these artists in mind when he made those comments, though it would be interesting to no what he had in mind.

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

Put it this way, if I were to get another poppy salsa release from 2006, it probably would be the NG2, but I think I may have culled the best of that already for this year.

hey right here plzzz

Okay jerginsito.

I would like this.

Listening to the new NG2 this morning: I think I probably would have liked this more a few years ago. I wonder how much of my increased pickiness comes from the fact that I haven’t been out dancing much at all for a long time. But, I still think this is just okay. And I wish they’d stop yelling out “NG2.” (That’s the kind of thing that gets on my nerves more these days, maybe because I allow it to.) It’s still probably better than the average recent salsa album, but not by enough.

hi dere

chck yr -ml

thanks

(Re: NG2, “Como Amigo No” is fun because it mixes vallenato and merengue sections in, with shout-outs to Colombia and the Dominican Republic. Not sure how much fun it would be to try to dance to it, but it scores points for standing out a bit. I think Onda Tropical mentioned this song.

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.)

Mostly thinking out loud: I don’t think I’m going to try to follow salsa that much in 2007, and at the same time I’m hoping to get back to dancing again. Get moving again. (That depends on the cooperation of my allergies, but if I get a running start over the next eight weeks or so, which should be pretty tolerable, then maybe it will help carry me through the year.)

Matt have you heard El Clan Dest1no?

Jordan, are you ever going to want one of these. :(

Haha, sure, lay it on me.

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

send here, pls

i would also dig this, if you please.

I’m hoping to get back to dancing again.

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.

jergins, salsa specifically or other types of dancing too? My one (unsolicited) piece of advice about salsa is: don’t let yourself get too crazy about what the right way to do it is. I realize this is a little ironic coming from someone who has taken lots of lessons, but I think that worrying too much about whether to dance on-1 or on-2, whether to dance Cuban style or New York style or LA style (etc.), whether street dancers are the only real deal, and so on. At the moment, lots of people are getting into joining salsa dance troupes and that sort of thing and I think it’s having an adverse affect on the social dancing side of it. (Beware of people who have been dancing for a year, joined a dance troupe, and now think they know it all.)

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

Jordan, the gunit.com e-mail will work or is that a joke?

I never bothered to write any track comments this year because I wasn’t really into doing that. I look at what I usually end up writing and it hardly seems worth bothering with—and I know I’m not going to end up writing anything more interesting this time around.

“This track has Latin roots influences and contains extensive vamping.”

the gunit.com e-mail will work or is that a joke?

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

I would like to hear this.

i use this opportunity to wish you all an ‘appy & salsacious new year y’all.

yeh.

thanks for sending. is there supposed to be an order to the tracks? they’re tagged all scatter-shot.

See the tracklist file that should have been included, if my track names aren’t showing up. Am I supposed to do something fancy to re-tag things? I just click on “re-name” and do it that way, but there’s some other thing I should be doing isn’t there? But you should have gotten a tracklist text file in the folder along with the mp3s. Anyway, if I had included the following tracks, this is the order they would be in, but I’m not saying these are actually the tracks that were included:

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

canta: Jose “EL CANARIO” Albero

Alberto, even

ok the text file is there, i just wasn’t looking for it. cool.

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.

WELL SORRY TO BE SUCH A FUCK-UP OKAY?!

:-)

Seriously, I will experiment.

Does anybody else want this, because I’d like to see if it worked. (I had a hard time figuring out where it saved the playlist. I think I am going to finally abandon Windows Media Player for 2007.)