DISCODELIC Archives - Guerssen Records https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/label/discodelic/ Guerssen Records Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:56:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-isotip-32x32.png DISCODELIC Archives - Guerssen Records https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/label/discodelic/ 32 32 Ritmo Matizon / Pa Gozar (7″) https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/ritmo-matizon-pa-gozar-7/ Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:00:00 +0000 http://guerssen.hl1097.dinaserver.com/product/ritmo-matizon-pa-gozar-7/ Discodelic introduces its fifth launch in its series of exclusive limited editions, the second piece of the trilogy of Afro Latin Nicaraguan music.

 

From Managua, we present you the mythical BWANA, the afro tropical rock ensemble pioneer in its style in Central America, with the themes of his second LP: "Ritmo Matizon" and "Pa Gozar", an incredible continuation of their first LP known worldwide, which includes his international successes such as "La Jurumba" and "La Patada". Interestingly, its second LP was less promoted and is a piece very much desired by latin music collectors, and only intrepid diggers have been able to find an original copy traveling in Nicaragua.

 

BWANA was born in 1970 from the need to unite the bata drums, the African tradition of Palo Mayombe, the more acid and modernist rock of tropical music. The ensemble was led by Roberto Martines (Maguila), a versatile, visionary and creative multi-instrumentalist, who since he was a child has been engaged in spiritual sessions with his family. To complete the idea of BWANA, the perfect connection was Salvador Fernandez (Chava), conga player and great expert of Afro rhythms. The group had massively success in Nicaragua, Colombia, Mexico and Panama, but inexplicably disintegrated in the midway 70s and its members disappeared from the musical map.

 

In 2019 we met Roberto Martinez (Maguila) in Los Angeles, where today he is the high priest of Palo Mayombe and dedicated to healing through spiritual methods and astral travels. He shared with us the complete history of BWANA to know through his incredible vision. We invite you to read the liner notes that accompanied this careful 45rpm edition.

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]]> Discodelic introduces its fifth launch in its series of exclusive limited editions, the second piece of the trilogy of Afro Latin Nicaraguan music.

From Managua, we present you the mythical BWANA, the afro tropical rock ensemble pioneer in its style in Central America, with the themes of his second LP: “Ritmo Matizon” and “Pa Gozar”, an incredible continuation of their first LP known worldwide, which includes his international successes such as “La Jurumba” and “La Patada”. Interestingly, its second LP was less promoted and is a piece very much desired by latin music collectors, and only intrepid diggers have been able to find an original copy traveling in Nicaragua.

BWANA was born in 1970 from the need to unite the bata drums, the African tradition of Palo Mayombe, the more acid and modernist rock of tropical music. The ensemble was led by Roberto Martines (Maguila), a versatile, visionary and creative multi-instrumentalist, who since he was a child has been engaged in spiritual sessions with his family. To complete the idea of BWANA, the perfect connection was Salvador Fernandez (Chava), conga player and great expert of Afro rhythms. The group had massively success in Nicaragua, Colombia, Mexico and Panama, but inexplicably disintegrated in the midway 70s and its members disappeared from the musical map.

In 2019 we met Roberto Martinez (Maguila) in Los Angeles, where today he is the high priest of Palo Mayombe and dedicated to healing through spiritual methods and astral travels. He shared with us the complete history of BWANA to know through his incredible vision. We invite you to read the liner notes that accompanied this careful 45rpm edition.

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]]> She Sold Her Soul / Uhru Sasa (Red) https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/she-sold-her-soul-uhru-sasa-red/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 23:00:00 +0000 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/she-sold-her-soul-uhru-sasa-red/ In 2006, the UK reissue label, Soundway, dropped the first volume of their "Panama!" series. Curated and compiled by Roberto Gyemant, this first compilation -and the subsequent two volumes- unleashed long-lost salsa tunes, sweet soul and funk cuts, cumbias, calypsos, and many other '60s and '70s Latin sounds to an unsuspecting world of music lovers. But noticeably, rock recordings were absent.
As the U.S. began exporting early proto-rock in the 1950s, with the Brits responding in kind with an invasion of their own, rock and roll became the defining sound of the '60s. Mexico was inundated in La Onda, its tide sweeping onto other Central and South American nations, with countless outfits having seen their music rediscovered, cataloged, and reissued over the years. Curiously, no rock recordings have been documented coming out of Panama.
Until now.
While the story is fascinating, much of Panama's rock scene has been largely unwritten. As we came to learn, many bands formed for very short periods of time throughout the '60s and '70s throughout and near the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone, with just a trickle dropping into one of Panama's recording studios to lay down a couple of songs before disappearing back into obscurity, leaving behind only an etching of a moment on a vinyl 45. Of the recordings made and pressed, only a few copies have survived to the present day. Some were only pressed as incredibly limited radio station promos, never receiving a proper public release.
In collaboration with Tamayo Records, Discodelic are humbled to bring you all "Walk On," a series of seven 45s (of which these two are the first) featuring 14 cuts from a dozen rock outfits that played in Panama through the late 1960s and into the 1970s. These reissues will be the first time that any of these recordings will be made available outside of Panama to represent the psychedelic landscape of an era and area long gone. Once all seven 45s are launched, an accompanying book will also be made available that details Panama's incredibly unique and scrappy rock history, as well as in-depth write-ups and interviews with musicians of the bands featured as part of this effort.
We hope you enjoy these recordings as much as we do, and please, stay tuned. Jesus Iñiguez.

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]]> In 2006, the UK reissue label, Soundway, dropped the first volume of their “Panama!” series. Curated and compiled by Roberto Gyemant, this first compilation -and the subsequent two volumes- unleashed long-lost salsa tunes, sweet soul and funk cuts, cumbias, calypsos, and many other ’60s and ’70s Latin sounds to an unsuspecting world of music lovers. But noticeably, rock recordings were absent.
As the U.S. began exporting early proto-rock in the 1950s, with the Brits responding in kind with an invasion of their own, rock and roll became the defining sound of the ’60s. Mexico was inundated in La Onda, its tide sweeping onto other Central and South American nations, with countless outfits having seen their music rediscovered, cataloged, and reissued over the years. Curiously, no rock recordings have been documented coming out of Panama.
Until now.
While the story is fascinating, much of Panama’s rock scene has been largely unwritten. As we came to learn, many bands formed for very short periods of time throughout the ’60s and ’70s throughout and near the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone, with just a trickle dropping into one of Panama’s recording studios to lay down a couple of songs before disappearing back into obscurity, leaving behind only an etching of a moment on a vinyl 45. Of the recordings made and pressed, only a few copies have survived to the present day. Some were only pressed as incredibly limited radio station promos, never receiving a proper public release.
In collaboration with Tamayo Records, Discodelic are humbled to bring you all “Walk On,” a series of seven 45s (of which these two are the first) featuring 14 cuts from a dozen rock outfits that played in Panama through the late 1960s and into the 1970s. These reissues will be the first time that any of these recordings will be made available outside of Panama to represent the psychedelic landscape of an era and area long gone. Once all seven 45s are launched, an accompanying book will also be made available that details Panama’s incredibly unique and scrappy rock history, as well as in-depth write-ups and interviews with musicians of the bands featured as part of this effort.
We hope you enjoy these recordings as much as we do, and please, stay tuned. Jesus Iñiguez.

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]]> African Dream / The Message https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/african-dream-the-message/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 23:00:00 +0000 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/african-dream-the-message/ The Scepters were a band from the Paraíso province, a township just north of the Panama Canal's Pedro Miguel Locks. Guitarist Celso Spencer initiated the group in Paraíso High School in 1967, and it featured Celso as lead guitarist, Lionel Best on rhythm guitar and bass, Lorenzo Anderson on drums, and José James on woodwind instruments. Celso, Lionel, and James all rotated as vocalists. They first got their start performing for American soldiers at different military bases, running through the Teen Clubs circuit, and playing at different high school dances throughout the Canal Zone. The band would mainly perform Top 40 hits of the day, along with covers of rock and roll acts like Santana and Jimi Hendrix, eventually releasing two 45s on the Taboga label, including "Message," which was written by José James and first performed at Panama's first National Soul Music Festival in 1971. They'd continue to tour and perform throughout the Canal Zone until they broke up in 1972.
Conjunto Raza is another of Agustín Leiro's side projects (whose work with Cizaña was featured in the first round of the "Walk On" reissues) and consisted of an ever-shifting constellation of Zonian and Panamanian musicians, all of whom met and played together at The Golden Key bar in Panama City during the early 1970s. Though the roster often changed, their only known 45 single, first released on the Onda Nueva label sometime between 1973 and 1975 (an exact date is unfortunately unavailable), presumably features Leiro on guitar and lead vocals, Julio Sosa on keys, Guillermo Franco on congas, Ruben Lachman on bass, and Jorge Carrizo on drums. Several of the participants of this recording are known to have performed with other rock ensembles throughout the Canal Zone, including Almafuerte and Hot Apple Pie.

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]]> The Scepters were a band from the Paraíso province, a township just north of the Panama Canal’s Pedro Miguel Locks. Guitarist Celso Spencer initiated the group in Paraíso High School in 1967, and it featured Celso as lead guitarist, Lionel Best on rhythm guitar and bass, Lorenzo Anderson on drums, and José James on woodwind instruments. Celso, Lionel, and James all rotated as vocalists. They first got their start performing for American soldiers at different military bases, running through the Teen Clubs circuit, and playing at different high school dances throughout the Canal Zone. The band would mainly perform Top 40 hits of the day, along with covers of rock and roll acts like Santana and Jimi Hendrix, eventually releasing two 45s on the Taboga label, including “Message,” which was written by José James and first performed at Panama’s first National Soul Music Festival in 1971. They’d continue to tour and perform throughout the Canal Zone until they broke up in 1972.
Conjunto Raza is another of Agustín Leiro’s side projects (whose work with Cizaña was featured in the first round of the “Walk On” reissues) and consisted of an ever-shifting constellation of Zonian and Panamanian musicians, all of whom met and played together at The Golden Key bar in Panama City during the early 1970s. Though the roster often changed, their only known 45 single, first released on the Onda Nueva label sometime between 1973 and 1975 (an exact date is unfortunately unavailable), presumably features Leiro on guitar and lead vocals, Julio Sosa on keys, Guillermo Franco on congas, Ruben Lachman on bass, and Jorge Carrizo on drums. Several of the participants of this recording are known to have performed with other rock ensembles throughout the Canal Zone, including Almafuerte and Hot Apple Pie.

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]]> Soul Jeronimo / The Mediators Thing https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/soul-jeronimo-the-mediators-thing/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/soul-jeronimo-the-mediators-thing/ Finally the second drop of our Panama series focus on Psychedelic Latin Rock, two new singles with four obscure groups from early 70s in Panama, Los Misticos, The Meditators, The Scepters y Conjunto Raza!
Discodelic and Groovie Records present two incredible singles / amazing finds of musical archeology. Four recordings made in Panama in the 70s and lost in time, we finally managed to license these Latin Psych Funk gems through Tamayo Records in a deluxe limited edition. These four groups Conjunto Raza, The Meditators, The Scepters and Los Misticos, were groups that barely recorded a single, which were only used for radio stations and forgotten in warehouses, they represent the most underground and forgotten Panama!
"Thank you for supporting Discodelic's "Walk On" series! This is the second sprint of releases, featuring four more obscurities from four more uncelebrated unsung heroes of the Panamanian psychedelic latin rock scene of the 1960s and '70s.

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]]> Finally the second drop of our Panama series focus on Psychedelic Latin Rock, two new singles with four obscure groups from early 70s in Panama, Los Misticos, The Meditators, The Scepters y Conjunto Raza!
Discodelic and Groovie Records present two incredible singles / amazing finds of musical archeology. Four recordings made in Panama in the 70s and lost in time, we finally managed to license these Latin Psych Funk gems through Tamayo Records in a deluxe limited edition. These four groups Conjunto Raza, The Meditators, The Scepters and Los Misticos, were groups that barely recorded a single, which were only used for radio stations and forgotten in warehouses, they represent the most underground and forgotten Panama!
“Thank you for supporting Discodelic’s “Walk On” series! This is the second sprint of releases, featuring four more obscurities from four more uncelebrated unsung heroes of the Panamanian psychedelic latin rock scene of the 1960s and ’70s.

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]]> Bravo Guaguanco / Pa’l Que Lo Quiera Gozar (7″) https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/bravo-guaguanco-pal-que-lo-quiera-gozar-7/ Wed, 06 Apr 2022 22:00:00 +0000 http://guerssen.hl1097.dinaserver.com/product/bravo-guaguanco-pal-que-lo-quiera-gozar-7/ We finish our Nicaraguan trilogy presenting the bravest Guaguanco of Nicaragua, from the beautiful city of Masaya, the Warumo Orchestra!

 

Formed at the beginning of 1976, when four friends started with the idea of organizing the first purely Salsera orchestra in Nicaragua, La Salsa was hitting hard throughout Central America, thanks to the immense popularity of El Gran Combo and its tours of Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua. The label Fania Records had serious intentions of launching a franchise in Managua in association with SISA (Sonido Industrial, SA) and Weimar Serrano saw the great potential, thus, with Javier Peña, he decides to organize himself with friends from various groups such as Los Signos del Zodiaco. , Los Cobanes, Los Lobos and Los Hellers, and they settle down to rehearse in the popular neighborhood of Masaya called "El Barrio Loco" and from there with the influence of Roberto Roena and Ray Barretto they begin to create their own compositions with their particular wild sound to two trombones and three trumpets

 

Although Salsa, Son Montuno and Guaguanco were rhythms that had already been recorded by groups such as Los Clarks, Llama Viva, Grupo Africans and Poder del Alma, the explosive arrival of Warumo revolutionized dances throughout Nicaragua.

 

Warumo's name was a play on words to refer to guaro and smoke (marijuana), since, although they were Salseros, they had a very marked hippie streak from the years of La Tortuga Morada when several members experimented with modern and psychedelic rhythms. in groups such as La Luz Divina and Los Signos del Zodiaco.

 

Warumo's history is very short, since it lasted barely two years, the illusions of getting to tour outside of Nicaragua and launching a second full-length vanished with the beginning of the armed uprising of the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front), the The war began and most of the members decided to flee to Costa Rica, abandoning all their belongings (one of the reasons why there are no more photos of the group). Their only album was not commercialized when the armed conflict broke out, the Audio 8 studios they are expropriated in 1978 and the label does not distribute the disc and the copies are lost or destroyed (same case as the third album of Poder del Alma also released in 1977).
Nowadays, due to its scarcity and high musical level, it is one of the holy grails of the "underground" Guaguanco and has reached very high prices when a copy appears in public auctions.

 

Discodelic is pleased to rescue and preserve these recordings and make them available to new generations. To enjoy!

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]]> We finish our Nicaraguan trilogy presenting the bravest Guaguanco of Nicaragua, from the beautiful city of Masaya, the Warumo Orchestra!

Formed at the beginning of 1976, when four friends started with the idea of organizing the first purely Salsera orchestra in Nicaragua, La Salsa was hitting hard throughout Central America, thanks to the immense popularity of El Gran Combo and its tours of Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua. The label Fania Records had serious intentions of launching a franchise in Managua in association with SISA (Sonido Industrial, SA) and Weimar Serrano saw the great potential, thus, with Javier Peña, he decides to organize himself with friends from various groups such as Los Signos del Zodiaco. , Los Cobanes, Los Lobos and Los Hellers, and they settle down to rehearse in the popular neighborhood of Masaya called “El Barrio Loco” and from there with the influence of Roberto Roena and Ray Barretto they begin to create their own compositions with their particular wild sound to two trombones and three trumpets

Although Salsa, Son Montuno and Guaguanco were rhythms that had already been recorded by groups such as Los Clarks, Llama Viva, Grupo Africans and Poder del Alma, the explosive arrival of Warumo revolutionized dances throughout Nicaragua.

Warumo’s name was a play on words to refer to guaro and smoke (marijuana), since, although they were Salseros, they had a very marked hippie streak from the years of La Tortuga Morada when several members experimented with modern and psychedelic rhythms. in groups such as La Luz Divina and Los Signos del Zodiaco.

Warumo’s history is very short, since it lasted barely two years, the illusions of getting to tour outside of Nicaragua and launching a second full-length vanished with the beginning of the armed uprising of the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front), the The war began and most of the members decided to flee to Costa Rica, abandoning all their belongings (one of the reasons why there are no more photos of the group). Their only album was not commercialized when the armed conflict broke out, the Audio 8 studios they are expropriated in 1978 and the label does not distribute the disc and the copies are lost or destroyed (same case as the third album of Poder del Alma also released in 1977).
Nowadays, due to its scarcity and high musical level, it is one of the holy grails of the “underground” Guaguanco and has reached very high prices when a copy appears in public auctions.

Discodelic is pleased to rescue and preserve these recordings and make them available to new generations. To enjoy!

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]]> Funky Bocas / Baila Muchacha https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/funky-bocas-baila-muchacha/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 23:00:00 +0000 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/funky-bocas-baila-muchacha/ In 2006, the UK reissue label, Soundway, dropped the first volume of their "Panama!" series. Curated and compiled by Roberto Gyemant, this first compilation -and the subsequent two volumes- unleashed long-lost salsa tunes, sweet soul and funk cuts, cumbias, calypsos, and many other '60s and '70s Latin sounds to an unsuspecting world of music lovers. But noticeably, rock recordings were absent.
As the U.S. began exporting early proto-rock in the 1950s, with the Brits responding in kind with an invasion of their own, rock and roll became the defining sound of the '60s. Mexico was inundated in La Onda, its tide sweeping onto other Central and South American nations, with countless outfits having seen their music rediscovered, cataloged, and reissued over the years. Curiously, no rock recordings have been documented coming out of Panama.
Until now.
While the story is fascinating, much of Panama's rock scene has been largely unwritten. As we came to learn, many bands formed for very short periods of time throughout the '60s and '70s throughout and near the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone, with just a trickle dropping into one of Panama's recording studios to lay down a couple of songs before disappearing back into obscurity, leaving behind only an etching of a moment on a vinyl 45. Of the recordings made and pressed, only a few copies have survived to the present day. Some were only pressed as incredibly limited radio station promos, never receiving a proper public release.
In collaboration with Tamayo Records, Discodelic are humbled to bring you all "Walk On," a series of seven 45s (of which these two are the first) featuring 14 cuts from a dozen rock outfits that played in Panama through the late 1960s and into the 1970s. These reissues will be the first time that any of these recordings will be made available outside of Panama to represent the psychedelic landscape of an era and area long gone. Once all seven 45s are launched, an accompanying book will also be made available that details Panama's incredibly unique and scrappy rock history, as well as in-depth write-ups and interviews with musicians of the bands featured as part of this effort.
We hope you enjoy these recordings as much as we do, and please, stay tuned. Jesus Iñiguez.

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]]> In 2006, the UK reissue label, Soundway, dropped the first volume of their “Panama!” series. Curated and compiled by Roberto Gyemant, this first compilation -and the subsequent two volumes- unleashed long-lost salsa tunes, sweet soul and funk cuts, cumbias, calypsos, and many other ’60s and ’70s Latin sounds to an unsuspecting world of music lovers. But noticeably, rock recordings were absent.
As the U.S. began exporting early proto-rock in the 1950s, with the Brits responding in kind with an invasion of their own, rock and roll became the defining sound of the ’60s. Mexico was inundated in La Onda, its tide sweeping onto other Central and South American nations, with countless outfits having seen their music rediscovered, cataloged, and reissued over the years. Curiously, no rock recordings have been documented coming out of Panama.
Until now.
While the story is fascinating, much of Panama’s rock scene has been largely unwritten. As we came to learn, many bands formed for very short periods of time throughout the ’60s and ’70s throughout and near the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone, with just a trickle dropping into one of Panama’s recording studios to lay down a couple of songs before disappearing back into obscurity, leaving behind only an etching of a moment on a vinyl 45. Of the recordings made and pressed, only a few copies have survived to the present day. Some were only pressed as incredibly limited radio station promos, never receiving a proper public release.
In collaboration with Tamayo Records, Discodelic are humbled to bring you all “Walk On,” a series of seven 45s (of which these two are the first) featuring 14 cuts from a dozen rock outfits that played in Panama through the late 1960s and into the 1970s. These reissues will be the first time that any of these recordings will be made available outside of Panama to represent the psychedelic landscape of an era and area long gone. Once all seven 45s are launched, an accompanying book will also be made available that details Panama’s incredibly unique and scrappy rock history, as well as in-depth write-ups and interviews with musicians of the bands featured as part of this effort.
We hope you enjoy these recordings as much as we do, and please, stay tuned. Jesus Iñiguez.

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]]> Funky Bocas / Baila Muchacha (Yellow) https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/funky-bocas-baila-muchacha-yellow/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 23:00:00 +0000 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/funky-bocas-baila-muchacha-yellow/ In 2006, the UK reissue label, Soundway, dropped the first volume of their "Panama!" series. Curated and compiled by Roberto Gyemant, this first compilation -and the subsequent two volumes- unleashed long-lost salsa tunes, sweet soul and funk cuts, cumbias, calypsos, and many other '60s and '70s Latin sounds to an unsuspecting world of music lovers. But noticeably, rock recordings were absent.
As the U.S. began exporting early proto-rock in the 1950s, with the Brits responding in kind with an invasion of their own, rock and roll became the defining sound of the '60s. Mexico was inundated in La Onda, its tide sweeping onto other Central and South American nations, with countless outfits having seen their music rediscovered, cataloged, and reissued over the years. Curiously, no rock recordings have been documented coming out of Panama.
Until now.
While the story is fascinating, much of Panama's rock scene has been largely unwritten. As we came to learn, many bands formed for very short periods of time throughout the '60s and '70s throughout and near the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone, with just a trickle dropping into one of Panama's recording studios to lay down a couple of songs before disappearing back into obscurity, leaving behind only an etching of a moment on a vinyl 45. Of the recordings made and pressed, only a few copies have survived to the present day. Some were only pressed as incredibly limited radio station promos, never receiving a proper public release.
In collaboration with Tamayo Records, Discodelic are humbled to bring you all "Walk On," a series of seven 45s (of which these two are the first) featuring 14 cuts from a dozen rock outfits that played in Panama through the late 1960s and into the 1970s. These reissues will be the first time that any of these recordings will be made available outside of Panama to represent the psychedelic landscape of an era and area long gone. Once all seven 45s are launched, an accompanying book will also be made available that details Panama's incredibly unique and scrappy rock history, as well as in-depth write-ups and interviews with musicians of the bands featured as part of this effort.
We hope you enjoy these recordings as much as we do, and please, stay tuned. Jesus Iñiguez.

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]]> In 2006, the UK reissue label, Soundway, dropped the first volume of their “Panama!” series. Curated and compiled by Roberto Gyemant, this first compilation -and the subsequent two volumes- unleashed long-lost salsa tunes, sweet soul and funk cuts, cumbias, calypsos, and many other ’60s and ’70s Latin sounds to an unsuspecting world of music lovers. But noticeably, rock recordings were absent.
As the U.S. began exporting early proto-rock in the 1950s, with the Brits responding in kind with an invasion of their own, rock and roll became the defining sound of the ’60s. Mexico was inundated in La Onda, its tide sweeping onto other Central and South American nations, with countless outfits having seen their music rediscovered, cataloged, and reissued over the years. Curiously, no rock recordings have been documented coming out of Panama.
Until now.
While the story is fascinating, much of Panama’s rock scene has been largely unwritten. As we came to learn, many bands formed for very short periods of time throughout the ’60s and ’70s throughout and near the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone, with just a trickle dropping into one of Panama’s recording studios to lay down a couple of songs before disappearing back into obscurity, leaving behind only an etching of a moment on a vinyl 45. Of the recordings made and pressed, only a few copies have survived to the present day. Some were only pressed as incredibly limited radio station promos, never receiving a proper public release.
In collaboration with Tamayo Records, Discodelic are humbled to bring you all “Walk On,” a series of seven 45s (of which these two are the first) featuring 14 cuts from a dozen rock outfits that played in Panama through the late 1960s and into the 1970s. These reissues will be the first time that any of these recordings will be made available outside of Panama to represent the psychedelic landscape of an era and area long gone. Once all seven 45s are launched, an accompanying book will also be made available that details Panama’s incredibly unique and scrappy rock history, as well as in-depth write-ups and interviews with musicians of the bands featured as part of this effort.
We hope you enjoy these recordings as much as we do, and please, stay tuned. Jesus Iñiguez.

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