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Artist:	VINER'S INCREDIBLE BONGO BAND, MICHAEL
Title:	Bongo Rock
Label:	MR. BONGO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	MRB 043LP

Double LP version, as originally reissued in 2006. "Bongo Rock or The Story Of The Incredible Bongo Band features the two original Bongo Band albums in their entirety (Bongo Rock and The Return of the Incredible Bongo Band) The Incredible Bongo Band's cover of track 'Apache' originally made famous by The Shadows is simply legendary in the world of dance music. Not only arguably one of the most sampled tracks of all time and a staple for Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash as they invented the art of DJing at the Bronx block parties of the '70s, it has become an all-time hip hop and breakers' anthem and is revered as the original break of all original breaks with the rhythms of this LP coining the term Breakbeat. Formed by MGM A&R Michael Viner in 1972 to supplement the soundtrack to the virtually anonymous B film The Thing With Two Heads. The IBB went from loose studio collective to an instrumental pop covers consortium, interpreting classics of the day in their own inimitable percussive fashion. B-Movie soundtracks, The Beatles, drummers gone bad, Frank Zappa, Kool Herc... The album has a remarkable story behind it, detailed in Angus Batey's extensive sleeve notes. 'Apache' has been sampled by: Missy Elliot, Coldcut, Will Smith, Goldie, Jurassic 5, Moby, Run DMC, Sugarhill Gang, Beastie Boys and Massive Attack and many many more. A must in every record collection."

Artist:	CORTES E ZE RAMALHO, LULA
Title:	Paêbirú
Label:	MR. BONGO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	MRB 050CD

"Paêbirú is an obscure Brazilian psych concept album about the four elements (earth, air, fire, water) that was lost to time in a warehouse fire in 1974, causing it to become a massively sought-after lost classic, fetching up to $1500 for vinyl copies. This recording of the collaboration between Brazilian artists Lula Côrtes and Zé Ramalho is a wonderfully off-kilter record, full of fantastic hooky and strange tunes that range all over the place, from full-on freakouts to quiet pastoral. The entire range of 1970s hippie Brazilian musician culture is displayed in this record. It's experimental, but it's relentlessly driven towards fun. If you like good music, you will like this legendary album untouched by time. Côrtes, who composes and plays on many of the tracks, seemingly appears only when talking about obscure Brazilian psych reissues, Ramalho, on the other hand, has built a solid career as a Brazilian pop singer and takes on most vocal duties. It's a very atmospheric blend, sung and chanted vocals are no more or less important than any of the other elements, which include classical acoustic and fuzzy electric guitar, piano, organ, flute, sax and a range of percussion. It's free and psychedelic, but just reigned in enough to keep it tense and exciting. The closest comparison might be to combine Amon Düül with Sunburned Hand of the Man and perhaps Double Leopards, if they lived on a commune together in Brazil and recorded while indulging in mass quantities of narcotics. In Brazil from the late 1960s onward, Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben, Tom Zé, and many others blended elements of psychedelic rock, jazz, indigenous folk, with more 'classic' urban styles (bossa nova, samba, etc.) and instrumentation. As much a political identity movement as a cultural, Tropicalia artists as a whole were interested in using artistic expression as removing barriers and as a means of enabling other societal freedoms. Simultaneously, but across the Atlantic, European mystical trance rock of the time, beginning with outfits like Parson Sound and Amon Düül, and continued by Träd Gräs och Stenar and Algarnas Tradgard."

Artist:	VA
Title:	I Like It Like That (Remixe)
Label:	MR. BONGO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	MRB 061LP

"Mr Bongo presents this amazing LP collection of classic originals from the Fania label and their first-ever brilliant remixes. It contains the sought-after and sold out 12" singles, featuring remixes by such contemporary heavyweights as Gilles Peterson, DJ Format, Louie Vega, Bugz in the Attic and many, many more who have enhanced the catalog with their own unique sounds. Like many American stories, the tale of Fania comes from the boroughs and inner city barrios of New York City. Along the way, Fania artists mixed a cornucopia of styles that transcended the boundaries of traditional Latin music and set the path for the genres of salsa, boogalu, Latin R&B, and Afro-Cuban jazz. Radio 1 DJ, Brownswood Records label boss and all-round music guru Gilles Peterson offers up a great mix of Nora Morales, alongside Brazil's electronic trio of the moment, funk carioca outfit Bonde de Role, who have worked with Diplo and have now signed to Domino. Hip-hop pioneer DJ Format produced a storming mix of the Dave Cortez which was a previous sell-out 12". Along with Masters at Work's musical legend Louie Vega's 11-minute re-work of Hector Lavoe, 4 Hero produce a beautiful remix of Ralfi Pagan in their inimitable style. The infamous 'I Like It Like That' by Peter Rodriguez title track is well known from the Odeon cinema ident."

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