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THE FANIA LABEL Fania Records has often been referred to as the Latin Motown, and for good reason. Just as the soul sounds emanating from Hitsville U.S.A. defined the city of Detroit, the numerous salsa superstars that dominated the Fania roster would help to stir the percolating cauldron that was New York City in the 60's through the early 80's. Founded in NYC in 1964 by the Dominican musician Johnny Pacheco and Italian-American lawyer Jerry Masucci, this unlikely duo proved to be an inspirational match. With their extraordinary list of musical luminaries performing multiple hybrids of salsa, boogaloo, Afro-Cuban jazz and Latin R&B, the dance clubs, street corner concerts and car radio airwaves of Spanish Harlem and the Bronx pulsated in a perpetual groove. Six 70's Singer-Songwriters
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My Bloody Valentine are an overdriven-guitar led quartet at the heart of which
is the uncompromisingly singular, songwriting-meets-esoteric-production vision
of singer/guitarist Kevin Shields. The band, which emerged in the late Eighties
from London’s live scene and the UK music press-supported independent labels
Diaspora, is best known both for two hugely influential, genre defining
albums – 1988’s Isn’t Anything and 1991’s
Loveless – and the disorientating, ear-melting volume of its
live performances.
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