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Culturally, mestizos are folks of mixed Latin and Indian heritage who live along the U.S./Mexico borderlands; Filipino-born Joe Bataan felt enough of that same duality to name his record label Salsoul (salsa plus soul, see) and to name his late-'70s backing group his Mestizo Band. A retitled reissue of 1980's Mestizo, with no bonus tracks and most of the songs edited into lengthy suites, Joe Bataan and His Mestizo Band is primarily a late-era disco record, with only minimal Latin accents on songs like the by-the-numbers opener, "Mestizo." However, by 1980, Bataan was susssed enough to tell not only that disco was dying, but that something new was taking its place: the single "Rap-O Clap-O" was one of the first examples of R&B glomming onto the new sound, a pale rewrite of "Rapper's Delight" that today sounds oddly charming in how naff it is, and that sense of not-quite-rightness is enhanced later in the song's rather pointless reiteration "Rap-O Dance-O," which simply boosts the bass and wah-wah guitar a little louder than the vocals. Still, none of this compares to the album's monumentally odd high point, "I See Your Hiney," which has both the album's most attractive beat and a chorus that warrants quoting in full: "I see your hiney/It's black and shiny/If you don't hide it/I'm gonna bite it." Only during the disco era, folks.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
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Joe Bataan, Composer, MainArtist - Unknown, Composer
© 2017 Salsoul Records ℗ 1973 2013 Salsoul Leyendas
Joe Bataan, Composer, MainArtist - Unknown, Composer - J. Bataan, Composer
© 2017 Salsoul Records ℗ 1973 2013 Salsoul Leyendas
Joe Bataan, Performance, MainArtist - Jocelyn Brown, FeaturedArtist
© 2017 Salsoul Records ℗ 1973 2013 Salsoul Leyendas
Joe Bataan, Composer, MainArtist - Leon Darnelle Bryant, Composer
© 2017 Salsoul Records ℗ 2011 Verse Music Group LLC
Joe Bataan, Performance, MainArtist
© 2017 Salsoul Records ℗ 1980 Verse Music Group
Joe Bataan, Performance, MainArtist
© 2017 Salsoul Records ℗ 1980 Verse Music Group
Joe Bataan, Composer, Performance, MainArtist - Unknown, Composer
© 2017 Salsoul Records ℗ 1980 Verse Music Group
Joe Bataan, MainArtist
© 2017 Salsoul Records ℗ 2011 Verse Music Group LLC
Joe Bataan, Composer, Vocals, MainArtist - Unknown, Composer
© 2017 Salsoul Records ℗ 1973 Salsoul Leyendas
Joe Bataan, Composer, Remixer, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2017 Salsoul Records ℗ 2001 Salsoul Records
Joe Bataan, Composer, Vocals, MainArtist - Unknown, Composer - J. Bataan, Composer
© 2017 Salsoul Records ℗ 1973 Salsoul Leyendas
Joe Bataan, Composer, Vocals, MainArtist - Unknown, Composer - J. Bataan, Composer
© 2017 Salsoul Records ℗ 1973 Salsoul Leyendas
Albumbeschreibung
Culturally, mestizos are folks of mixed Latin and Indian heritage who live along the U.S./Mexico borderlands; Filipino-born Joe Bataan felt enough of that same duality to name his record label Salsoul (salsa plus soul, see) and to name his late-'70s backing group his Mestizo Band. A retitled reissue of 1980's Mestizo, with no bonus tracks and most of the songs edited into lengthy suites, Joe Bataan and His Mestizo Band is primarily a late-era disco record, with only minimal Latin accents on songs like the by-the-numbers opener, "Mestizo." However, by 1980, Bataan was susssed enough to tell not only that disco was dying, but that something new was taking its place: the single "Rap-O Clap-O" was one of the first examples of R&B glomming onto the new sound, a pale rewrite of "Rapper's Delight" that today sounds oddly charming in how naff it is, and that sense of not-quite-rightness is enhanced later in the song's rather pointless reiteration "Rap-O Dance-O," which simply boosts the bass and wah-wah guitar a little louder than the vocals. Still, none of this compares to the album's monumentally odd high point, "I See Your Hiney," which has both the album's most attractive beat and a chorus that warrants quoting in full: "I see your hiney/It's black and shiny/If you don't hide it/I'm gonna bite it." Only during the disco era, folks.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:14
- Main artists: Joe Bataan
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Salsoul Records
- Genre: Electronic Dance
© 2017 Salsoul Records ℗ 2017 Salsoul Records
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