Boogaloo was the hip, young, sharp suited sound of late ’60s Spanish Harlem: an explosive, bilingual hybrid of soul, funk, R&B and Latin that marked out the faultline between traditional Cuban ‘son’ and the sounds of Nu Yorica. This compilation features 16 killer slices of Afro-flavoured Latin that’ll have you grooving like a loon. Worth buying if only for La Lupe’s gloriously OTT version of ‘Fever’ and Dave Cortez’s deliriously groovy ‘Tighten Up’, as recently sampled on Aguilera’s ‘Ain’t No Other Man’ single. Right on baby!
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