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This is a great classic latin soul album from Willie Bobo. He recorded it several years before he moved over to the Verve Record label. It is mostly instrumental and does not have many covers like his later albums.

Willie Bobo is most famous for Spanish Grease which was transformed by Santana but there are gems on this album as well.

The standout tracks are 1) Bobo! Do that Thing which I think is arguably one of the best latin soul songs of all time, 3)He’s that way which is solid uptempo latin jazz and 9) Rigor Mortis. You can listen to sample tracks here!

DJ Zerman purchased the Torq Xponent MP3 Mixer with software so we were working out the bugs last night at South Street Seaport. Initial thoughts, one of the best things about it is the cumulative effect of having playlists stored so you can always go back to them in a jam.  It also forces you to go through and organize those 40000 mp3s you have sitting all over the place so they can be imported into the Torq database.  In my slow switch away from CDs I’ve tried Traktor, Virtual Dj and now Torq. Traktor’s interface is overloaded with controls you don’t need and occasionally crashes, Virtual DJ I don’t have an opinion yet, and Torq seems to be the simplest. It will take a while for me to incorporate computers fully into djing as I think under the gun I’ll still use CDs, but it is time for the change without a doubt.  Probably one it’s best features is the integration with Itunes, your playlists automatically load into the Torq interface so you can manage your music in Itunes prior to events and  I think it resyncs with Itunes.  The downside of course is simply having too much music, and forcing yourself to dump all the songs you’re never going to play under the gun, or  create a separate library which has all your music and a smaller one with just the essential songs.

In trying to figure out the direction of this blog since there are so many out there the only thing to do of course is to post my mixes, or songs at least.  I love the Stepfather of Soul’s blog where he posts one song per day and has a week archive of those tracks available, and all of his mixes as well.  It seems efficient.  This blog probably won’t be as regimented simply because I like so much different music and always want to share it.  It will be a combination of djnyc remixes of tracks, podcasts and the occasion song.  If you have a music blog as well say hello, would love to hear from you!