Los Chijuas – from Mexico, 1968.
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Hi, i saw your link on my Sotano beat e-mail. Your web it’s great and we could find the way to some collabotrations ! Los Chijuas are not what you could say straight garage from Mexico, i like more Los Yaki or Los rebeldes del Rock. Well, don’t forget to look on my page, because we have some nice mp3 too.
Thanks to Mr Ed (myspace) and Chas and garagehangover here I found El Rico’s Sotano. Yes you’re right, so cabrones y chingadores, sotano is indeed Spanish for basement.
I’m real gone on Latin American beat groups or “locos del ritmo a-go-go o ye-ye” (big beat rhythm crazies), aka Latin American “garage bands”.
Now, if garage bands was not a term used in musical circles and sewing clubs in England, Canada, the U.S., Australia and Botswana, it definitely was not a term used in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Peru and the rest of Latin America. While cats and chicks were hip and flipped to the big beat and the beat groups, los jovenes de America Latina (Latin American youths, and Spaniard youths too) were hip and flipped to la musica a-go-go or la musica ye-ye. You can figure out what that means in English. Music. Music a. Musica. Ok? (Oh, the French also called it ye-ye!) It wasn’t till the late 1970s that 1963-1969 (mostly, 1965-1967) beat groups came to be known as garage bands. And then when the revivalists discovered that there had been similar scenes in Spain and Latin America, especially Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Argentina, those bands were then also called garage bands, Latin American garage.
Puerto Rico’s main garage band, I mean beat group, grupo ye -ye, were LOS SONSETS. Now Chas, how do I get their music on here for all you no-counts to listen to? I could find out more about them and send you the story and then I guess you would put it on here. Till then … Look up the compilation Gamma Gamma Knee Cappa (something like that) for THEME ONE by Los Sonsets. It’s basically The Rolling Stones’ version of Everybody Loves Somebody with jungle noises (not that we have jungles in Puerto Rico coz we don’t!).
So I’m digging the pics of these lean mean and nasty chingadores in these Peruvian beat groups. IS IT POSSIBLE TO DIG THEIR SOUNDS THAT ABOUND, sounds they played to get to many Venus mounds??
Hola, thanks for your words. I see you liked the peruvian Beat bands photos in Vinylhead’s gallery. There some Mp3 too, and we’re going to post more Latino garage& beat music-a.
Otherwise this Blog is very cool and we have a link to it in our Vinylhead blog.