Nowhereland

April 4, 2008

Joe played 4 songs. Fragile was the last one.

Playlist

Mandali – Africando
Asi Son – El Gran Combo
Nunca Que Quedas – Frankie Ruiz
Cinco A Diez – Azabache
Duele Mas – Grupo Niche
Mary – Joe Arroyo (1)
Don Lengua – Santiago Ceron
Sabor Criollo – Tito Rodriguez Jr (canta: Jose Alberto) (2) *

break (3)

No Me Resigno – Toque De Keda
Mentirosa – Louie Ramirez & Ray De La Paz
Me Dejo – Oscar D’Leon
Ya No Puede Ser – Celia Cruz, Ray Barretto and Adalberto Santiago
Somos Caribenos – Grupo Caribe *
El Apartamento – Willie Rosario (canta: Gilberto Santa Rosa)
Abran Paso – Orchestra Harlow (canta: Ismael Miranda)
Lindo Yambu – Cheo Feliciano
Tres Dias De Carnaval – Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco (4)
Babarabatiri – Tito Puente (5)
El Preso – Fruko Y Sus Tesos (6)
Vete Y Pregona – Jose Alberto “El Canario” (-8%) *
El Abaniquito – Pucho and His Latin Soul Brothers
Fuego A La Jicotea – Marvin Santiago
Vitamina – Sonora Carruseles (-3%)

break (7)

Ven A Medellin – Grupo Gale
Me Libere – El Gran Combo (8)
Para Darte Fuego – Frankie Ruiz
Lamento Boliviano – Toque De Keda (9)

(1) One of the regulars really liked this one.
(2) I danced to this one. Trickier than I expected. Gordon called it tortuous.
(3) Vish played 6-8 dozen songs. Mostly slow to medium paced of standard canon. danced to 2 songs during this time. Vish finished with an unfamiliar Merengue and I opted for Bachata next. I asked Vish for more details of his Lithuania trip. Also a mystery is solved partially - not the same person.
(4) Vish thinks this song is great?
(5) A Tito Puente request! Woohoo! It's probably nothing more than a coincidence, but the dance floor was at its busiest during Tres Carnaval-Babarabatiri-El Preso trifecta tonight.
(6) A request for more Colombian and a question, “Do I know a lot of Colombian music?” Ans. not as much as New York or Puerto Rican. For the last week, I have been doing more Merengue research than anything else.
(7) Vish decided to give another guy a shot at DJing - I can't remember for sure if this was the guy who substituted for Vish on a Saturday last month. He started with Valio La Pena (with same fade finish as that Saturday), then Temba Tumba Timba, then a few amorphous unfamiliar tracks, a standard Reggaeton. It is difficult to introduce new songs and get people to like it right away, and it's harder without a built-in reputation of playing good or at least interesting songs most of the time. He was also using an iPod nano along with CDs - not sure if this was his modus operandi. In any case he had to raise the volume level considerably to compensate for compression whether he was using an iPod or his CDs. Not sure but it might have been a practice run for next 2 weeks.
(8) Vish had been requesting this for a while. Why not with the conditions as is?
(9) I had two other Salsa songs ready to be queued (El Cantante Y La Orquesta and No Tires La Primera Piedra), but Vish asked for a Bachata as the early last song of the night. Vish actually wanted Obsesion, which I don't have.

Total 26 songs. 2 Bachata. 24 Salsa including 3 new.

Vish talked about having a troupe organized by Lee and Shelley in May. More info should be forthcoming at the Club Salsa website.