Argentine Breaks, Beats, and Murder

Danno3000

I've been feeling this record ever since I came across my first copy in Montevideo last May. I have it on good authority that it's fairly typical of the beat sound popular in early 70's Argentina, but I think this is leagues beyond anything else people compare it too.Cool story: On the boat from Montevideo to Buenos Aires, a very fat man told me that the band went to Spain and killed themselves. A couple of days ago Soulstrut's favourite Porte??o, Jorge Lopez Ruiz, gave me the real story: the band leader moved to Spain at the time of the military coup (76). In 2003, he was found dead in his apartment in Madrid , hanged with a t-shirt and a plastic bag on his head. Ok, the band didn't commit suicide en masse, but this story is almost as weird. http://www.waxingdeep.org/music/tios2.mp3http://www.waxingdeep.org/music/tios3.mp3http://www.waxingdeep.org/music/tios4.mp3

Garcia_Vega

I found this record in Puerto Rico, all those songs that you posted are on the LP too. I always thought the record was from Ecuador because the album is titled "Desde la Mitad del Mundo" (From the middle of the world), and because that picture is from a statue in Ecuador that divides the northern and southern hemispheres.

Garcia_Vega

This doesn't have beats or breaks in it, but what Argentine record thread would be complete without a mention of Las Mosquitas. The first all female beat group in Argentina, these ladies rocked it with more poppy sounds than Afghanistan. Their spanish cover of the Ronettes' classic "Be My Baby," or in their case "Tu seras mi baby," is next level, so bad its good type joint. They also helped break in the ye-ye sound, and have a song called "Siempre Bailo con la Mas Fea" (I always dance with the most busted chick!)
I don;t think they killed themselves or anyone else, but their record might drive you to murder.