Customer Reviews

Mania 2050

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Despues que salieron de Sony Discos para ir a Universal habia dudas que Grupomania iba a durar por mucho tiempo, que equivocados. Fue una buena decision por que se mudaron de una casa disquera que va ccuesta abajo con otra que va cuesta arriba en tal de la musica tropical. El disco es bien bailable el mejor tema "Caracolito". Digno de 5 estrellas sin los temas 6 y 12.

This new cd from Grupomania is great. They are always trying new sounds and and their music and beat are on fire. It's hard to listen to this cd without dancing. These guys are great - I can't wait to hear them perform these new songs again in concert.

4 1/2*

Grupo Mania impresses again in this great album. While Latino, their newest album has more variety and distinctivness, this album really grows on you, partly because of the many niceities of the arrangments, but most especially because of the really great singing of the four men. Each of them has a very different voice,which lends variety to the songs. Yet they blend very well. These are among the best voices you can find in merengue.

This is pretty intense album, actually, longer and more "seroius" than Latino. This is an album for those who appreciate complex, hardcore merengue. All the songs are good, and impress more with repeated hearings, even if certain instrumental figures are sometimes excessively repeated. Paricularly noteworthy is Dame una Razon, which exists both in a wonderful merengue, and then, amazingly, is later transformed very creatively into R&B. That version ends with a stanza in English, and it is done perfectly and idiomatically.

Nina a Mujer and Usted de Mi se Rio are other standouts, the later featuring wonderfully subtle singing by Oscar.

Latino has a more broad appeal, but anyone who really appreciates great Puerto Rican merengue and salsa needs to get this ablum.

But I don't think that would be fair, since I have yet to purchase the CD. But by listening to the samples, I can tell that this CD is GREAT! I can gurantee that this will become a part of my music collection soon. I'm not going to waste anymore time writing about it here....I'm buying it!