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Dominick Martin aka Calibre is the 1st exclusively Irish Drum and Bass artist. Classically trained in violin, he dropped this for drums and began playing in various bands, before finding early Detroit techno and house. His inspiration around that time is said to wander around the likes of Kenny Larkin, Carl Craig, Juan Atkins, the Orb. His brother introduced Calibre to drum and bass and jungle, which at first he couldn’t follow the pattern as he felt it was too relentless and 'beaty', and so at that point he preferred four to the floor drumbeats from the US house style....

Adolescent's Orquesta, known informally as Los Adolescentes, is a salsa romantica group from Venezuela that was initially popular in the mid- to late '90s with hits including "Anhelo" and "Persona Ideal." A decade later, after a new lineup was assembled, the group proved popular once again with hits including "Se Acabó el Amor" and "En Aquel Lugar." Adolescent's Orquesta is essentially the group of Porfi Baloa (piano, keyboards, bass), who is not only the group's producer but also its musical director and primary songwriter. The original lineup of Adolescent's Orquesta was comprised of Wilmer Lozano, Williams Lozano, Armando Guiñan, and...

Welcome to the second volume in the Vampi Soul series of tropical Peruvian music of the 60s. The casual music enthusiast might not think that Peru was a hotbed of tropical music in the 1960s and 70s. But with it's indigenous tradition of Afro-Latin percussion on the coast, and an obsession with mambo in the 50s, Peru was actually the perfect place for the Cuban and Nuyorican sounds of son, boogaloo, and guaracha to take root. The proximity of Columbia and Venezuela made sure that cumbia was popular as well. The MAG label producer Manuel A. Guerrero Silvestre captured this...