News & Updates — psych

DJ Bongohead's "Rough Guide to Psychedelic Salsa" is out 2/23 on London label World Music Network. Check out tunes new and old, including some highlights from our good friends in Bio Ritmo, Grupo Fantasma and Quantic. Check the link for full track list, some background and pre-order, as well as a very cool video by NYC's La Mecanica Popular. http://www.worldmusic.net/store/item/RGNET1304/ Track List Listen Buy MP3 Grupo Fantasma Feat. Larry Harlow: Naci De La Rumba Y Guaguanco (7:57) Listen Buy MP3 La Mecánica Popular: La Paz Del Freak (3:23) Listen Buy MP3 Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno: Dub Y Guaguanco (4:27) Listen...

What records made your ears happy?

DJs Andujar & Bongohead will bring their Rumba Psicodélica party back to the Quarters on Saturday, December 6th. These two tropi-heads will be spinning from their expansive vinyl direct to The Quarters Sound System. South American psych rock, messed-up cumbias, dark dubs, hard Afro rock, Cuban experimental, Trópicalia, salsa loca, spookaloo, tropical funk, Caribbean electro-derangement, Ethio-groove and other borderless haze. Join us 8pm-1am at The Quarters Saturday 12/6. No cover. Come play some arcade games, drink some brews, eat some food and get your brain mangled. Brought to you by The Quarters and Peace & Rhythm. Poster by Sightlab.

(photo by focalchrome) This is the highly publicized Black Sabbath tribute from members of Brownout and Grupo Fantasma. I have seen both of those bands several times and have been continually amazed by their tight live shows with swingin' horns and rippin' grooves. Intrigued further, I decided to gain access into their world and tried to find out what makes them so sick. I was told to meet them in some late night Texas heat (I took a left at the longhorn, vultures circling). When I arrived on the scene there was a wicked feeling that came over me. The...