Latin Blues Band featuring Luis Aviles

Take A Trip / Pussycat

Speed : SP 1004

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  • Artist: Latin Blues Band featuring Luis Aviles
  • A Side: Take A Trip
  • B Side: Pussycat
  • Label: Speed
  • Format: 45s

Condition

Condition

  • Vinyl Condition: VG+
  • Label Condition: E+
  • Sleeve Condition: E+

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Description


Description

Another fabulous Latin Soul dancer starting to emerge as a future big-tune! Don't say we didn't warn you - we adore it!!!

Conceived by Latin / Boogaloo pioneer Bobby Marin, who composed and arranged for all the "big names" of this highly coveted genre.

Latin Blues Band quickly updated their name to the "Moon People" who released an album "Land Of Love" the same year.

The celebrated Speed label specialised in lively New York Latin-Boogaloo supervised by experienced producers and the label owners Morty Craft, Bobby Marin and Stanley Lewis (ex-Cotique). Both sides shimmer with late 60's Latin dance rhythms. Rasping Guiro scrapes, Maracas, Congo's, stabbing horns, aerial trumpets, provided relentless feel-good hip-shaking dance pulses gliding on wave after wave of dance appeal. Chatting, conversational group vocals bounce off each others exuberance, with "Take A Trip" invitations filling the air, riding ever increasingly muscular brass-loaded arrangement.

Just a killer tune! Utterly vibrant, kick-ass, uplifting and oh so danceable, heading in a skyward trajectory as we speak.

The Flipside carries on in the same vein, screaming brass again drives the narrative, of looking for his "Pussycat", an all too familiar innuendo that works so well with Latin pulses.. Both sides deliver solid bustling Latin Boogaloo, which has elevated this previously elusive disc, into a real rarity as global demand grows.

Condition Report

Two totally clean labels, same as the only other copy we have sold, the flipside label is pressed slightly askew of centre, see images. Otherwise all clean and free of writing, stickers, tears or stains. Vinyl reveals soft surface scuffing none of which affect play (listen)

A Side

  • Title: Take A Trip

    B Side

  • Title: Pussycat
  • Year: 1968
  • City: Latin Showcase Productions Limited, 345 West 58th Street, New York, NY 10019

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