News & Updates — disco

Jimmy Sabater, the velvet-voiced Nuyorican singer & timbalista with the Joe Cuba Sextet, was the smooth English-tongued half of his lead vocal duo with Cheo Feliciano. Check out such great tunes as the smash hit "Bang, Bang", and "To Be With You" (a classic bolero, which Jimmy also cut a good disco version in '76). A native of El Barrio, he met Joe Cuba while playing stickball and the two joined Joe Panama's band. Eventually Joe Cuba took it over and transformed it into the popular Joe Cuba Sextette. They started making records in the late '50s but it was...

Taking the world by storm: the amazing Locobeach!! Psychedelic disco-cumbia made in Brooklyn NY, from the bastard children of Chicha Libre and Los Crema Paraiso. Members of Los Amigos Invicibles, La Muy Bestia Pop and featuring the talents of Joshua Camp, songwriting talent and creator of the C.A.M.P.O.S. project. This fantastic new outfit is already electrifying audiences around NYC. Locobeach is cumbia pop; latin disco with a psychedelic/spaghetti western edge. This supergroup of a band is comprised of Jose Luis Pardo on guitars/vocals, Neil Ochoa on congas/percussion/electronics, Joshua Camp on accordion/keyboards/vocals and Edward Marshall on bass. Dance music for your...

One of West Africa's (and indeed the planet's) most unique and independent musicians was the Nigerian synth-funk artist William Onyeabor, who passed away earlier this year. Born in Enugu, southeastern Nigeria, he studied cinematography in Russia and upon returning to Nigeria attempted to produce movies but found better luck when he opened a record pressing plant, recording studio, publishing company and record label. In the late '70s and into about 1985, he self-produced several unique, avant-garde records driven by synthesizers, drum machines, sequencers and very funky, groovy psych-disco rhythms. It has been speculated that he acquired all his expensive and...

Peace & Rhythm's DJ Studebaker Hawk is back in Richmond this Saturday, throwing down at the Body Talk party at Continental Divide, 10pm-2am. Body Talk are a Richmond-based DJ collective focused on playing the best in boogie-funk, soul, disco, go-go and electro dance music. 2501 W Main St, Richmond VA 23220 https://bodytalkrva.tumblr.com/ http://www.eatdivide.com/

Out in April, Peace & Rhythm will be dropping the debut single by psychedelic disco-cumbia Latin supergroup Locobeach. "The Devil Is A Charmer", written by Joshua "C.A.M.P.O.S." Camp, will be available as a digital single, the first in a series leading up to the band's full-length debut vinyl LP to be released in late 2017 on Peace & Rhythm. This fantastic group features members and ex-members of Los Crema Paraiso, Chicha Libre, Los Amigos Invisibles, La Muy Bestia Pop and C.A.M.P.O.S...Stay tuned!!