Various Artists - Super Disco Pirata (De Tepito Para El Mundo 1965-1980) - LP Vinyl Record Hub

140g Vinyl, Gatefold, 12-Page Booklet, Number of Discs: 2

How does the founder of an independent music label – whose very survival depends on album sales – justify creating a project highlighting, even praising piracy?

During the 1980s, a group of music dealers and record collectors from Mexico City joined forces to create a series of illegally manufactured vinyl records containing rare and highly-sought hits from Perú, Ecuador, Colombia and beyond. These bootleg compilations – known as “pirata” – were pressed during graveyard shift on recycled vinyl in editions of no more than 500. The anonymous manufacturers may not have realised it at the time but they were helping to consolidate and expand a love for tropical music and dance among the population of Mexico City and beyond. The records became a key element of the sonidero culture that was recently declared as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mexico City.

The double-LP Super Disco Pirata compilation contains 23 tropical floor-fillers sourced from the finest and strangest pirata LPs and includes a large booklet containing extensive notes and photos.

A1    Lucho Burbano –    Afro Oriental
A2    Cumbia Machuca –    Cumbia De Los Bee Gees
A3    Lucho Gavilanes –    El Tequilazo / Canelazo
A4    Carlos Haayen Y Su Piano Candeloso –    Palenque
A5    Enrique Lynch –    La Quinta Sinfonia De Beethoven
A6    Los Pakines –    Venus
B1    La Protesta De Colombia –    Lamento De Cumbia
B2    Sonora Tropical –    Ritmo de Cumbia
B3    Eduardo Zurita –    La 3a De Los Toquecitos
B4    Leon Cardona Y Los Internacionales –    La Noche
B5    El Combo Cienaguero –    El Compae Nuñez
B6    Gabriel Meza Y Su Organo Chévere –    La Luna Y El Pescador
C1    Los Destellos –    Tanto Tienes, Tanto Vales
C2    Los Diablos Rojos –    A Bailar El Son Satanico
C3    Aníbal Angel –    Cumbia Tropical
C4    Camacho y Cano –    Hagan Rueda
C5    Orquesta Rafalo –    Eso Es Con Vela
D1    Alex Acosta Y Su Orquesta –    Cumbia Del Amor
D2    Ramon Ropain –    Malinga
D3    Afrosound –    Platico Chino
D4    Los Destellos –    La China Maria
D5    Los Orientales De Paramonga –    Te Gusta Como Azucar
D6    Francisco Zapata –    Cumbia Candelosa