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August 17, 2010One Motivated DeeJay …Nice Shirt!We love DeeJay Dave from Germany, and I guess he loves us too! Pictured below is Dave wearing a gorgeous t-shirt of his own making! That’s right, folks, he’s such a great fan of elWatusi that he created his own line of elWatusi wear! We are very flattered! Keep it going DJ Dave …you’re looking way cool!
July 4, 2010Happy 4th.
May 30, 2010Clueless in BrooklynThe amount of enthusiastic responses to elWatusi continues to be pretty darn overwhelming. We really appreciate all of your emails and helpful suggestions. Every now and then, however, we get an email that is simply too unbelievable not to publish. Here’s one from DJ____@aol.com from right here in Brooklyn, NY:
Somebody please tell me if this guy is joking or what? First off, does he really believe that he’s enlightening us to the fact that illegal downloads take place? But, more to the point, does he really have so little a moral or ethical foundation that he feels the need to actually boast that he has no problem STEALING? Do I really need, in 2010, to wag a finger at this guy and enlighten him to the fact that, in addition to breaking the law, stealing music takes food off the table of artists, labels and everyone else working hard in this industry? And that doing so will simply stifle new releases and innovation? From his email address I assume the guy’s a DJ and makes his living off of the music. Oh, the irony. May 22, 2010The Good, The Bad, The Ugly (and Buxom): LP Cover LoverThe brainchild of Mathew Glass and his friend Tony, LP Cover Lover is a must-see blog of vintage LP and 45 covers. Broken down into organized categories like Big Heads, Bollywood, Cops and Convicts, etc. the site is well tagged and a truck-load of fun. Check out the racey Chicks dig records section. There’s enough cheesecake here to supply a weekend at Junior’s on Flatbush Ave. But there’s also some amazing art, like the covers designed by David Stone Martin (see his Lester Young masterpiece on Norgran Records). Excellent selection of Latin titles, too. Check these links: Bongos and Bagels, Latin, Latin Loco and Cha Cha Cha Mambo. While you’re on their site, buy one of their cool t-shirts. Below is a cross section of random vintage Latin covers…
May 17, 2010Ken, Barbie, Celia y Pacheco: un tributo en plasticoOne of our favorite pastimes is to scour YouTube for weird or unusual videos that have at least some relation to this music. Not that many make the cut, but I came across this cool little tribute to La Reina, Celia Cruz, by pbabyj2000. Aside from the obvious huge amount of labor needed to produce a stop-motion video of this length, I really like her use of stills of Pacheco, India, Ralph Mercado, Tito Puente, Isidro Infante etc., and the fluctuating aspect ratio (keep your eyes on the edges), which gives this piece a extra layer of animation. Hope you like it too. The near-perfect salsa choreography of the dolls is great, but the thing that got me were some of the still images that depicted a few of the above-mentioned icons at Puente’s, now closed, restaurant called Tito’s, on City Island in the Bronx. There you could count on great music and mediocre, overpriced, seafood.  Tito Puente, India, promoters Jack Hooke and Ralph Mercado  India and Tito March 15, 2010« Newer Posts |
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