Various - La Locura De Machuca 1975 - 1980 [CD]

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Brand New release by Analog Africa. Double LP pressed on 140g virgin vinyl comes with a full color 16-page booklet and CD comes with a full color 32-pages booklet

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One night in 1975, a successful tax lawyer named Rafael Machuca had his mind blown in Barranquilla's 'Plaza de los Musicos'. Overnight he went from a high ranking position in the Columbian revenue authority to visionary production guru of the newly formed record label that bore his name, Discos Machuca, and for the next six years he devoted his life to releasing some of the strangest, most experimental Afro Psychedelia Cumbias ever produced.

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La Locura de Machuca is the story of one man's bizarre odyssey into Colombia's coastal music underground, and the wild, hypnotic sounds he helped bring up to the surface. The Colombian music industry was thriving in the mid-seventies, but while homegrown bolero and vallenato tunes were doing well on the charts, it was imported African records that were setting crowds on fire at the picos - the sound-systems that fuelled neighbourhood parties - and wherever those records were played there were always a handful of groups who were inspired to plug traditional Cumbia directly into the electric currents coming from across the Atlantic.

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It was these obscure bands, who fused Colombian and African rhythms with the swirling organs and psychedelic guitars of underground rock, that fired Machuca's imagination. While the label made its money releasing popularrhits by legends such as Alejandro Durxe1n and Anxedbal Velxe1squez, that money was poured back into a unique run of experimental releases by fringe artists such as La Banda Africana, King Somalie, Conjunto Barbacoa, and Abelardo Carbono, one of the godfathers of Champeta Criolla. When Machuca couldn't find groups to realise his particular vision, he simply created them himself. Drawing on a fearsome roster of musicians associated with the label, he assembled bands that lasted only as long as it took to record an album ,and unleashed the results - complete with arrestingly unusual album covers - under a series of different names such as Samba Negra or El Grupo Folclxf3rico. This unorthodox approach led his longtime recording engineer, Eduardo Dxe1vila, to describes Machuca's productions as the 'B-Movies of Colombian music.'rrThe story of Doctor Machuca and his eccentric exploits tells of one of Colombia's most atypical and peculiar record companies; a defining pillar of Afro-Caribbean psychedelia. His productions have come to represent the roots of Champeta and set the pedigree standards for Afro and Costexf1o avant-garde. The seventeen tracks on La Locura de Machuca, harvested from the darkest, strangest corners of the Discos Machuca catalogue, sound like little else recorded before or since.

Samba Negra - 'Eberebijara'

King Somalie - 'Monkeyxb4s Dance'

El Grupo Folclxf3rico - 'Tamba'

Los Viajeros Siderales - 'El Campanero'

Rio Latino - 'Ayu'

Anxedbal Velxe1squez - 'La Mazamorra Del Diablo'

La Francachela - 'Mosquita Muerta'

El Grupo Folclxf3rico - 'Juipiti'

King Somalie - 'Le Mongui'

El Grupo Folclxf3rico - 'El Tornillito'

Samba Negra - 'Long Life Africa'

La Banda Africana - 'Te Clavo La...Mano'

Myrian Makenwa - 'El Platano'

El Grupo Folclxf3rico - 'Tucutru'

Grupo Bola Roja - 'Caracol'

El Grupo D'Abelard - 'A Otro Perro Con Ese Hueso'

Conjunto Barbacoa - 'Wabali'

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