El Nino Y El Sol (Dig)

Ocote Soul Sounds | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 8, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Eighteenth Street
• ASIN: B000FMHCG8
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #296,951 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Supreme and exquisite recording!, November 6, 2007

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Randall (Guadalajara, Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: El Nino Y El Sol (Dig) (Audio CD)

Very good release from ESL, although it's hard to describe what Ocote sounds like and even harder to know what do they had in mind and what they wanted us to feel, but certainly it was thought to delight the listener as this is a very good recording. Some tracks are a bit short (and odd) but most of them are being executed in supreme way to make me transport to the south cone. Not jazzy sound, not chillout, not hip-hop, not trip-hop, not completely funky nor lame sound...but it's just like if you take all of these into a blender adding a spice of upbeat exotica and afro sound (with horns and flute included), it can even sound just like a mistical tune in some tracks.

I would say Ocote sounds just like if Thievery Corporation-meets-AntibalasAfrobeatOrchesta-meets-Gecko Turner and they are all drinking Absinth in the middle of the mexican desert...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars like if santana had a mpc., June 13, 2007

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Stephen Finkin "Pygmy Twilight" (Ny) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: El Nino Y El Sol (Dig) (Audio CD)

I spin records at a college thats how i found this gem. so good it is like if santana had a mpc. so good where the movie or is this cinematic orchestra style and its made up. i want to see where the hell these ideas flowed from.***************************count the stars

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cool and funky exotica, January 17, 2007

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Peace Brotha (Ohio, United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: El Nino Y El Sol (Dig) (Audio CD)

I was trying to figure out how to explain the sound of this music and I can't do any better than that: "cool and funky exotica." The beats on this record are tight and most have the flair of a South American evening on the town.

These cuts are ripe for DJ's everywhere to sample.

Cool, cool stuff and yet another score for ESL.