RAY LUGO & THE BOOGALOO DESTROYERS: Que Chevere! (My Baby’s Got Latin Soul) (2014) La Tumba De Fu Manchu video

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RAY LUGO & THE BOOGALOO DESTROYERS: Que Chevere! (2014)

If the densely populated global retro funk and soul scene is the musical equivalent of a burgeoning metropolis rife with competition as everyone strives to outdo each other, the global latin boogaloo is more of tumbleweed-troubled hamlet in the middle of nowhere, population one: Ray Lugo. You might expect the lack of rivals to engender laziness or mediocrity but were you to do so, you would be sorely mistaken, for Fania fan Lugo would still stride like a colossus among …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RAY LUGO & THE BOOGALOO DESTROYERS: El Ritmo De Nueva York (2014)

I like to think of Ray Lugo & The Boogaloo Destroyers as the latin boogaloo equivalent of Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings. Both are the sun at the centre of their respective musical solar systems but while Sharon Jones and co. are orbited by myriad rivals, Ray Lugo & The Boogaloo Destroyers to all intents and purposes are the global retro latin boogaloo scene. Not that our Ray allows this to …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM