China Crisis, “Black Man Ray” (1985)
Sometimes you can’t get a song out of your head so you post it to the Internet.
Silvinha, “Leve a Vida”
The Ralphi Rosario club mix of GloEs’ “WEPA” is charting really high on the ‘mersh Latin DJ charts. I don’t like it nearly as much as the original—which might be the best mambo track out this year (and PHARRELL produced it!), my apologies to Dominican Republic—as it neuters the merengue root for generic/skeevy Miami techno (you can almost feel the shiny silk shirts on your fingertips). BUT it does posit La Gloria as a true later-life dance music diva a la Cher, which I think she ABSOLUTELY deserves. Can’t wait for the full-length to drop and for her to break further out of Latin/old people markets.
Some day I swear to God I’ll get back to listening to everything Gloria Estefan has ever done and writing about how good it is, but until then I’m so psyched she has a new one coming out.
Speaking of which….
I’m dropping out of the twenty-first century over the weekend. If you need me, I’ll be in the 1920s.
