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Willie Colon - Idilio

This a great track, often described as salsa romantica, and perhaps less played than Willie Colon's more famous of La Murga, Che Che Cole and El Malo.  There are so many different directions you can go when spinning salsa, most of it depends of course on the crowd, how many people can dance salsa, if there are more couples or more single people, Idilio is a good choice for a mid tempo track but perhaps less recognizable than La Murga. 

Tips for djing Salsa

There are so many different styles, tempos and eras with Salsa music that it's important to ask people exactly what they like to dance to if you will be spinning salsa at their event.  Often if they love salsa but their guests are not as keen on it you have to play more well known tracks from Willie Colon or Tito Puente, and often slower tempo particularly if they can't really salsa but like to fake it.  The event we dj-ed Sunday there were several guests there who loved Jimmy Bosch and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra but were less keen on the Tito Puente tracks, which is different than what we expected. As always the best nights are the ones where you can move between many different styles/ genres of music which is what we did, we eneded up playing country, Detroit funk, soul, disco, salsa, merengue, bachata, cha cha cha, Cuban son, Nigerian funk, roots reggae, latin jazz and latin soul.

Here are some of their favorite salsa tracks

We'll be spinning a few of these at the Scorpello event.

Willie Colón/Ruben Blades Homenaje a Levoe
Oscar D'Leon Mi Mujer es Una Bomba
Willie Colón Idilio
Ray Barretto Guarare;  Descarga la Moderna;  Cocinando Suave;  Ahora Sí;  Son con Cuero
Spanish Harlem Orchestra Cuando Te Vea
Johnny Polanco y Conjunto Amistád La Receta
Sonora Ponceña Fuego en el 23 (4:44 version);  Nanara Cai;  Canto al Amór
Cal Tjader Tumbao;  Alonzo
El Gran Combo Por Siempre
Eddie Torres (Dance City album) Pa' Gozar;  Caraván;  Tú Me Estas Volviendo Loco
Tito Puente Gozar Timbero;  Swinging the Mambo;  Oye mi Guanguanco;  El Cayuco;  Ran Kan Kan
Jimmy Bosch El Avión de la Salsa;  Cocosito

Last night at Flute Bar Grammercy

Last night was excellent, we went very late until about 4 am. Alexandra was from Venezuela and Joel was from London so it was an amazing opportunity to play all kinds of music from Manu Chao to Wilfredo Vargas to Ray Barretto to Willie Colon, it helped that they had great taste in music.  Below our a few photos of Alex and Joel dancing on the bar at the after party while we were spinning.  Will post some more photos tomorrow. 

Here's a list of some of the tracks for below

Depois Do Carnaval -  Azymuth            
Tudo Que Voce Podia Ser  - Azymuth            
Hot N' Cold    Basement Jaxx            
Watch Out Now - Beatnuts            
I Know You Got Soul - Bobby Byrd                      
Viejo Socarron - Eddie Palmieri            
Águas De Março - Elis Regina E Tom Jobim            
Congo Man - Ernest Ranglin                     
Quitate Tu - Fania All-Stars            
Usted Abuso - Fania All-Stars            
Nappy Root    Funkadelic            
You Can't Miss What You Measure - Funkadelic
Barato Total - Gal Costa            
I Get Lifted - George McRae            
Happy Friends    The Greyboy Allstars            
Jungle Strut - The Greyboy Allstars                   
Lowdown Popcorn - James Brown            
It's A New Day - James Brown                              

It's Dancing Time - Mr Scruff & Quantic            
Suena Tu Bongo - Ocho            
La Cosa Se Pone Fuerte - Ocho            
Spottieottiedopaliscious - OutKast                     
The Heart's a Lonely Hunter - Thievery Corporation
Ran Kan Kan    Tito Puente            
Timbalero    Tito Puente
Che Che Cole - Willie Colon   

Willie Colon - The Player

This album is on the Ipod today, favorite tracks are Malo, The Hustler, Che Che Cole, La Murga y Siembra.  Willie Colon has some of the best classic album covers in addition to some of my favorite Fania latin music.