Colombia!: The Golden Age of Discos Fuentes [Import]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 3, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Soundway
• ASIN: B000MRA4VG
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,661 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Colombia golden age the real deal, March 31, 2008

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beezerminder "beezerminder" (King County, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Colombia!: The Golden Age of Discos Fuentes (Audio CD)

These sound like the original artists, hits from the 60s and 70s that I used to hear at latin parties with all kinds of south americans, not just colombians, who considered a lot of these "classics" for party music. It has a good variety, moving from salsa to cumbia to other rhythms. . .fun. I think colombian music is way underappreciated in northamerica; we mostly hear only NY/PR salsa if any. I like to listen to it while driving or doing something active but I don't think the mix has quite the right flow to be a fantastic party record on its own.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cliché use of spanglish to denote heat, July 7, 2007

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Jonathan Green "defrocked cultural anthropolo... (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Wow, this is a great record! I was hipped to it on The World radio show and bought it as an adjunct to my recent interest in Fania. This may be the best thing to come from Colombia since Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Discos Fuentes offered the best of the local musical styles by top-flight musicians. Classic and ahead of it's time, it's a challenge to figure the exact moment of each impeccably well recorded track. These guys may be South America's answer to Atlantic Records.

I anxiously await volume 2. Please!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars feel good music, November 30, 2007

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A. Smith (metro DC) - See all my reviews
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People always dance to this CD at parties. Even those who never dance tap their feet. We listen to this CD over and over again in the car. We heard about the CD on NPR, and the thirty seconds of the one song that they played was enough to convince us that we needed the CD, and it did not disappoint.