Website idea (record related)
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Picked up this Juan Pablo Torres album today ( this banger on it
) it's kinda strange album so was looking for some back story and couldn't find anything on the web, allmusic covers some basics on the artist but not on this album. I often see the musicians or relatives of, pop up on youtube comments with a bit of an insight to the recording or artist and thought it would be sweet to have a website or a community that people and players could post stories and anecdotes about records, give a bigger picture to them. Does something like this exist and i'm missing it or has it been tried?
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But from personal trips to Cuba. Finding any of the good Juan Pablo Torres lp's in decent condition is tough. There was a time when it wasn't... But not any longer.
A personal fav of mine...
http://i.imgur.com/ymseRi1.jpg
The store had that one too, might have to check back in
Nice one Danno, its a totally unique sound, love it. Any other artist in this vein i can dig in a bit more? You made some comps i can check?
Essential!
@mickalphabet: are you still in Brazil? You found that JPT around here?
Also this one has the cool disco funk track "Cacao" (not on youtube apparently)
i was lucky enough to pick up both of them (along with some other gems) on a trip to Havana back in 2011. they're in pretty decent condition – not minty by any means but definitely not rinked.
i have major regrets of not buying tons more records on that trip and bringing a box home. i found them at a store that had loads of great cuban funk records, multiple copies of many of them. owner was asking only $5 for each of them too. it was one of the last days of our trip, though, and we only had a little bit of cash left, with no way to get any more money (american embargo related). i could only spend like $50 or $60 so that we could still eat/sleep/get to the airport etc before we left. i probably could've gotten 100 amazing albums from this guy, easy, if i had had the cash available....