RAY LUGO & THE BOOGALOO DESTROYERS: Mi Watusi – Album (2011)

RAY LUGO & THE BOOGALOO DESTROYERS: Mi Watusi – Album (2011)
Following recent hot boogaloo single Swingy Boogaloo, Ray Lugo is back
in full salsa caliente de New York mode here and channelling the spirits of the likes of Ray Barretto, The Lebon Brothers and king Tito. Honestly, it’s like the golden era of Fania Records resurrected. And why wouldn’t it be since what the man’s done here is cover a ton of old classics with the odd revised set of lyrics and a bit of rearranging here and there?…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RAY LUGO & THE BOOGALOO DESTROYERS: Swingy Boogaloo + Mi Watusi Album update - 2011

RAY LUGO & THE BOOGALOO DESTROYERS: Swingy Boogaloo + Mi Watusi Album update - 2011
Ray Lugo reboots El Gran Combo’s bugalu classic (the imaginatively-titled) El Gran Combo’s Boogaloo with his own lyrics, simultaneously channelling his inner Tito Puente and bringing to mind all those NuYorican compilations from Soul Jazz Records. It’s the sort of thing that, wherever you are, has the power to evoke too-hot summers in the latin-quarter, where vandalised fire hydrants shower Jose Public like there’s no manana and hot-panted Latin Ladies gyrate to the groove until…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM