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Franz in the Park
Franz Ferdinand is a Scottish rock band that formed in Glasgow in 2002. The band chose the name after watching the racehorse Archduke Ferdinand win the 2001 Northumberland Plate. They are part of the soundtrack of the "Alice in Wonderland" (2010) adventure film with the song "The Lobster Quadrille”. Also The Cure’s Robert Smith, Avril Lavigne and Tokio Hotel appear on the soundtrack.
Here is Franz Ferdinand with “The dark of the matinee” live at T in the Park in 2004:
“T in the Park” is a music festival that has been held annually in Scotland since 1993. It takes place on the same weekend as the music festival “Oxygen” in Ireland and they have a similar line-up each year.
At the MNE awards in 2009 an annual show organised by the music magazine New Musical Express, Franz Ferdinand played the Blondie classic “Call Me” assisted by Elly Jackson of La Roux:
Blondie is an American band founded in 1975 by singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. Their first albums contained elements of new wave and punk, but after that they changed their style to a mix of pop, disco and reggae.
Here is Blondie with “Rapture” (in 1980) which was one of the earliest songs containing elements of rap vocals to reach number one in the US. And here live with "Heart of Glass" in 1982:
Rap-O-Clap-O for the Sexteto Electronico Moderno
Joe Bataan is a Filipino-American musician who is influenced by boogaloo and doo-wop. In 1965 he formed his first band after spending some time in prison as the leader of a local Puerto Rican street gang.
In 1973 he released an album named “Salsoul”: listen i.e. to “Latin Strut”. Salsoul was lingo for the musical culture of urban Latinos. In 1974 he co-founded Salsoul Records, a record company which has released about 300 disco 12” singles, including Joe Bataan himself with “Rap-O-Clap-O”, a hip hop hit in 1979:
In 2009 Joe Bataan released a new latin soul album “King of Latin Soul”. He was supported by the Barcelona based latin funk group Los Fulanos. Watch This:
“King of Latin Soul” was recorded for Spain's Vampisoul label. Also for that label Sexteto Electronico Moderno (a South American jazz rock combo) released “Sounds from the elegant world” in 2004, with the subtitle “Groovy night club music from Uruguay 1968-71”. The album has different styles from Brazillian bossa and latin jazz to instrumental soul with a typical Hammond organ sound and vibes. The band often made instrumental covers of soundtracks of blockbuster films. Listen to “Ramblin’”:
The first track of the album is called “Soul Nuevo” and is written by organist Armando Tirelli. Here is Armando with a live performance of that song:
The Delinquent Habits of Chicano Rappers
Delinquent Habits is the name of a Chicano hip hop group. In 1996, the group became internationally known with their single "Tres Delinquentes" selling over one million copies:
This group from Los Angeles originally consisted of 3 members (Los Tres Delinquentes), and they worked with Cypress Hill member Sen Dog and Puerto Rican rapper Hurricane G.
American hip hop group Cypress Hill was the first Latino group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums worldwide. For example, their second album “Black Sunday” with single “Insane in the membrane” went triple platinum in the US, selling 3.25 million copies:
Chicano rap is a fusion style of hip hop music, gangsta rap and Latin which is typically performed by musicians of Mexican descent. The first widely known Chicano rap artist was Kid Frost. He had a big hit with “La Raza”, a track on his debut album “Hispanic Causing Panic” in 1990:
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