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Good Bye 2019, Hello 2020!

Good Bye 2019, Hello 2020!

2019 has been a productive and stimulating year for Peace & Rhythm. On behalf of the P&R Crew, we’d like to thank everyone who has supported and worked with us, you know who you are. We put out some great music on the label, and booked, curated and DJ-ed some fantastic music events and parties (as well as working on music releases for other labels) during the last 12 months. Here’s to 2019 and looking forward to lots of new releases, events and partnerships in 2020!

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Halloween hi-jinks from Radio Gladys Palmera, Peace & Rhythm's DJ Bongohead, Adrian Is Hungry and Locobeach

Halloween hi-jinks from Radio Gladys Palmera, Peace & Rhythm's DJ Bongohead, Adrian Is Hungry and Locobeach

Just in time for Halloween and El Día De Los Muertos, the "Dj Bongohead Monstruo Mix – Calaveras y Palmeras" podcast mixtape is up on the Radio Gladys Palmera site.

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Brand new debut album from Locobeach!

Brand new debut album from Locobeach!

Folks we are super hyped for this release from Locobeach - been a year or so in the making and now it's finally here! This dynamic supergroup has forged a sound blending cumbia pop and Latin disco with a psychedelic edge and now it's on wax. Their debut album is aptly titled Psychedelic Disco Cumbia and the official record release party for New York is on Halloween.  Many of the songs on the album strike a unique balance between classic cumbias, Latin dance music, and psychedelic influences. The kickoff track “Dream of the Bell Flower” really gets into the classic cumbias peruanas...

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New 7 inch 45 from Orquesta El Macabeo - Yankee Go Home!

New 7 inch 45 from Orquesta El Macabeo - Yankee Go Home!

The latest effort by Puerto Rico’s salsa rebels Orquesta El Macabeo is a very timely cover version of the Daniel Santos anti-imperialist anthem “Yankee Go Home” appropriately coupled with the title song from their last LP, “La Maldición Colonial” on the flip side. In choosing to reinterpret “Yankee Go Home”, the original of which was released decades ago on the LP “Los Patriotas” (a joint release from Daniel “El Jefe” Santos and Pedro “Davilita” Ortiz Davila) as a daring protest song that sang “truth to power”, Orquesta El Macabeo give a fresh new take on the long, rich tradition of...

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Get the fever!

Get the fever!

After the departure into James Brown afro-Latin-funk territory for Heavy Hustling, the Latin soul adventures of the Boogaloo Destroyers, side projects like the tropical psychedelia concept album Go South/Vaya Pa’l Surby Los Terrificos with Jake Fader and several solo recordings under his own name that had a digital dance culture feel to them, Ray Lugo is back with the full band Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra in what is being hailed as a “return to form” featuring the classic Fela-influenced yet highly original sound forged on earlier records like Love International (2007) and More Consideration(2004). Though not exactly a reunion album—the band haven’t...

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