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| Compilation album by Various artists | |
| Released | 15 November 2024 |
| Genre | cumbia |
| Length | 75:37 |
| Label | Analog Africa |
Super Disco Pirata: De Tepito Para El Mundo 1965–1980 is a compilation album of bootleg cumbia remixes and rebajadas [es], released by Analog Africa on 15 November 2024.
Background and release
Beginning in the 1940s Mexican sonideros – described by Carlos Tropicaza as "amateur mobile sound system operators, armed with a record player, amp and speaker" – offered a cheaper alternative to hiring a band at quinceñeras and other parties, and they helped to popularise Caribbean tropical music in Mexico. Sonideros grew in popularity, and some started travelling to South America to import records directly. By the 1980s a sophisticated bootleg record industry had emerged in the Tepito suburb of Mexico City, illegally reprinting copies and self-made compilations of tropical music records from across Latin America, predominantly Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. The bootleg records were called piratas, and were printed in runs of less than 500 with bespoke covers, including logos for each sonidero.
Analog Africa head Samy Ben Redjeb travelled to Mexico City in 2019 to finalise the compilation album Saturno 2000. While there he came across the bootleg piratas, and on a later trip in 2022 he bought the records for Super Disco Pirata. Most of the tracks on the album are not the bootlegs that Redjeb found in Mexico, but instead versions recreated from the original tracks to be as close to the bootleg as possible. One exception is "Afro Oriental", of which Redjeb said "no matter how hard we tried, we never managed to make it sound as good."
Critical reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Mojo |   |
| Songlines | |
| Uncut | 8/10 |
In a review for Uncut, Stephen Dalton described Super Disco Pirata as a "variable mix, but well stocked with pungent gems and alluringly wonky oddities." Songlines called the album "sometimes bizarre, but always glorious." Vogue México y Latinoamérica put the album 10th in their list of the best Spanish-language albums of 2024.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Afro Oriental" | Lucho Burbano | 5:39 |
| 2. | "Cumbia de Los Bee Gees" | Cumbia Machuca | 2:40 |
| 3. | "El Tequilazo/Canelazo" | Lucho Gavilanes | 2:42 |
| 4. | "Palenque" | Carlos Haayen y su Piano Candeloso | 2:05 |
| 5. | "La Quinta Sinfonia de Beethoven" | Enrique Lynch | 3:01 |
| 6. | "Venus" | Los Pakines [es] | 3:53 |
| 7. | "Lamento de Cumbia" | La Protesta de Colombia | 3:00 |
| 8. | "Ritmo de Cumbia" | Sonora Tropical | 3:14 |
| 9. | "La 3a de Los Toquecitos" | Eduardo Zurita | 3:23 |
| 10. | "La Noche" | León Cardona [es] y Los Internacionales | 2:09 |
| 11. | "El Compae Nuñez" | El Combo Cienaguero | 2:14 |
| 12. | "La Luna y El Pescador" | Gabriel Meza y su Organo Chévere | 3:23 |
| 13. | "Tanto Tienes, Tanto Vales" | Los Destellos | 4:20 |
| 14. | "A Bailar El Son Satanico" | Los Diablos Rojos | 6:51 |
| 15. | "Cumbia Tropical" | Aníbal Angel | 3:22 |
| 16. | "Hagan Rueda" | Camacho y Cano | 2:41 |
| 17. | "Eso Es Con Vela" | Orquesta "Rafalo" | 2:32 |
| 18. | "Cumbia Del Amor" | Alex Acosta y su Orquesta | 2:55 |
| 19. | "Malinga" | Ramon Ropain | 3:30 |
| 20. | "Platico Chino" | Afrosound | 3:25 |
| 21. | "La China María" | Los Destellos | 3:05 |
| 22. | "Te Gusta Como Azucar" | Los Orientales de Paramonga | 2:40 |
| 23. | "Cumbia Candelosa" | Francisco Zapata | 2:53 |
| Total length: | 75:37 | ||
Personnel
- Yacine Blaiech – graphic design
- Joaquín Contreras Soto – front cover
- Michael Graves – mastering
- Jordan McLeod – audio restoration
- Carlos Icaza, Samy Ben Redjeb – liner notes
- Jesse Simon – text editing
- Brendan James Flannery – translation
References
- ^ Samy Ben Redjeb; Carlos Tropicaza (April 2024). Super Disco Pirata: De Tepito Para El Mundo 1965–1980 (Liner notes).
- Flor Andrea Salazar Lara (2019-04-12), "Movimiento Sonidero: Construcción De Visualidades Alternativas" [Sonidero Movement: Building Alternative Viewpoints], Red de Estudios Visuales Latinoamericanos (in Spanish), retrieved 2025-01-07
- Ennio Bruno (2024-11-14), "Pirati del Messico" [Pirates of Mexico], Il Giornale della Musica (in Italian), retrieved 2025-01-07
- Jacques Denis (2024-12-06), "Disques pirates: La compilation «Super Disco Pirata» sous le soleil de Tepito" [Pirate records: The 'Super Disco Pirata' compilation in sunny Tepito], Libération (in French), retrieved 2025-01-07
- Guillaume Schnee (2024-10-25), "Quand Mexico dansait sur des musiques tropicales illégales" [When Mexico danced to illegal tropical music], Radio France (in French), retrieved 2025-01-07
- Andy Cowan, "Super Disco Pirata (review)", Mojo, no. 374 (January 2025), p. 103
- ^ Mark Sampson, "Super Disco Pirata (review)", Songlines, no. 204 (Jan 2025), p. 53, ISSN 1464-8113, retrieved 2025-01-04
- ^ Stephen Dalton, "Super Disco Pirata: De Tepito Para El Mundo 1965–1980 (review)", Uncut, no. 335 (Feb 2025), p. 55
- Joan Escutia (2024-12-21), "Estos fueron los mejores discos de música en español del 2024" [These were the best Spanish-language music albums of 2024], Vogue México y Latinoamérica (in Spanish), retrieved 2025-01-07