All bets are off. The compilation of the year is out and it's a feast of considerable and spicy proportions. Ecuatoriana - El Universo Paralelo De Polibo Mayorga 1969 - 1981. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Then hunt down the record and hear it.
Sounds of the Ecuador Pop Scene between these years. It's utterly fantastic as you might imagine and more. The life work of producer Polibo Mayorga, clearly the Ecuatorian Phil Spector or Joe Meek, these are space age hits which harvest the countries rich ethnic music tradition and shake them up like a cocktail you're sure to regret the morning after.
The mix of local traditions and casio melodies make each track here a thing of wonder, a dream for those like me who spend much of their week hunting through racks and crates for the record they need to complete their collections. Ariba! This is it. Buy it. Then try to find the pretty senorita to romance on the dancefloor to its rhythms. She's somewhere.
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