140g Vinyl, Gatefold, 12-Page Booklet, Number of Discs: 2

How does the founder of an independent music label whose very survival depends on album sales justify creating a project highlighting, even praising piracy?

During the 1980s, a group of music dealers and record collectors from Mexico City joined forces to create a series of illegally manufactured vinyl records containing rare and highly-sought hits from Per, Ecuador, Colombia and beyond. These bootleg compilations known as pirata were pressed during graveyard shift on recycled vinyl in editions of no more than 500. The anonymous manufacturers may not have realised it at the time but they were helping to consolidate and expand a love for tropical music and dance among the population of Mexico City and beyond. The records became a key element of the sonidero culture that was recently declared as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mexico City.

The double-LP Super Disco Pirata compilation contains 23 tropical floor-fillers sourced from the finest and strangest pirata LPs and includes a large booklet containing extensive notes and photos.

A1 Lucho Burbano Afro Oriental
A2 Cumbia Machuca Cumbia De Los Bee Gees
A3 Lucho Gavilanes El Tequilazo / Canelazo
A4 Carlos Haayen Y Su Piano Candeloso Palenque
A5 Enrique Lynch La Quinta Sinfonia De Beethoven
A6 Los Pakines Venus
B1 La Protesta De Colombia Lamento De Cumbia
B2 Sonora Tropical Ritmo de Cumbia
B3 Eduardo Zurita La 3a De Los Toquecitos
B4 Leon Cardona Y Los Internacionales La Noche
B5 El Combo Cienaguero El Compae Nuez
B6 Gabriel Meza Y Su Organo Chvere La Luna Y El Pescador
C1 Los Destellos Tanto Tienes, Tanto Vales
C2 Los Diablos Rojos A Bailar El Son Satanico
C3 Anbal Angel Cumbia Tropical
C4 Camacho y Cano Hagan Rueda
C5 Orquesta Rafalo Eso Es Con Vela
D1 Alex Acosta Y Su Orquesta Cumbia Del Amor
D2 Ramon Ropain Malinga
D3 Afrosound Platico Chino
D4 Los Destellos La China Maria
D5 Los Orientales De Paramonga Te Gusta Como Azucar
D6 Francisco Zapata Cumbia Candelosa