Los Yorks “Ritmo Y Sentimiento” I broke my record player when I was moving the other day. Well, it was a cheap belt driven system and the belt came loose. When trying to reattach it I noticed that the motor was stuck in the active position and then I accidently dropped it. Rather than continue to fuss with it I decided to try to attach the better Numark turntables I had gotten, secondhand, from a friend. I traded, for better of for worse, a Radioshack Mini Moog for them. The moog was pretty awesome but I never used it and I the guy I gave it to is a more talented musican than I whom I know from high school and who will surly get more use out of the damned thing than I ever did. I never really used it. I don’t have much patience for electronic music. It was a cool thing to have but I’d rather have some nice turntables. Unfortunately, I did not realize that this would create a whole new set of problems. First off, my mixer doesn’t work. So I tried to use just one turntable to start. I had a slew of connection and grounding problems that were finally solved on the third pre-amp. Now, after noticing that I got better playback on my records than I’d ever before experienced, I thought I ought to set up the damn thing correctly. Good turntables have a million little things to adjust. I had to look them all up on the internet which often provided contradictory advise. While reading this stuff I became appalled at the damage I had aparently been causing my records this whole time with the crappy little record player I had been using. AAAAAAAA!! So, now my audio playback standards are a lot higher than they were even just two days ago. I have surly fallen into realm of pure madness now. I can hear my future self now, “NO! It’s got to be a Stanton 500-11A or it won’t touch my records!” Outrageous. It does sound better though. I can hear records I’ve owned for years in a whole new light. There are components to the recording I had never before noticed. Instruments I had never before heard. Whatever. Anyway, “Ritmo Y Sentimiento” is an excellent record. The second Los Yorks album I bought. The first was “68” which is also fantastic. I’m a sucker for anything in a different language. It forces me to hear just the sound and approach the music on a purely aesthetic level. Plus, Spanish is beautiful. It’s unusual because most foreign bands, especially in the sixties, would always record rock music in english. Thus, it’s sometimes hard to find international psyche that’s not in english. International Psyche is one of my favorite genres (if a genre at all) and Los Yorks are an excellent example. It features fuzzy guitars but not overly distorted as in later psychedelic. Not much in the way of long psyche jams, this is still pop music just through the psychedelic lens. More experimental then “68” with some backwards guitar and percussion generated through sound manipulation. You know, it occurs to me now that I think I’ve already reviewed this album on tumblr some time ago. Oh well. The older one was probably better. I can’t think of much to say. Honestly, I just thought it’d be funny to complain about my phonograph setup problems in a record review. Whatever. Let’s wrap this up. This album sounds like a cross between Creedence and Love, IN SPANISH!

Los Yorks “Ritmo Y Sentimiento”

I broke my record player when I was moving the other day. Well, it was a cheap belt driven system and the belt came loose. When trying to reattach it I noticed that the motor was stuck in the active position and then I accidently dropped it. Rather than continue to fuss with it I decided to try to attach the better Numark turntables I had gotten, secondhand, from a friend. I traded, for better of for worse, a Radioshack Mini Moog for them. The moog was pretty awesome but I never used it and I the guy I gave it to is a more talented musican than I whom I know from high school and who will surly get more use out of the damned thing than I ever did. I never really used it. I don’t have much patience for electronic music. It was a cool thing to have but I’d rather have some nice turntables. Unfortunately, I did not realize that this would create a whole new set of problems. First off, my mixer doesn’t work. So I tried to use just one turntable to start. I had a slew of connection and grounding problems that were finally solved on the third pre-amp. Now, after noticing that I got better playback on my records than I’d ever before experienced, I thought I ought to set up the damn thing correctly. Good turntables have a million little things to adjust. I had to look them all up on the internet which often provided contradictory advise. While reading this stuff I became appalled at the damage I had aparently been causing my records this whole time with the crappy little record player I had been using. AAAAAAAA!! So, now my audio playback standards are a lot higher than they were even just two days ago. I have surly fallen into realm of pure madness now. I can hear my future self now, “NO! It’s got to be a Stanton 500-11A or it won’t touch my records!” Outrageous. It does sound better though. I can hear records I’ve owned for years in a whole new light. There are components to the recording I had never before noticed. Instruments I had never before heard. Whatever. Anyway, “Ritmo Y Sentimiento” is an excellent record. The second Los Yorks album I bought. The first was “68” which is also fantastic. I’m a sucker for anything in a different language. It forces me to hear just the sound and approach the music on a purely aesthetic level. Plus, Spanish is beautiful. It’s unusual because most foreign bands, especially in the sixties, would always record rock music in english. Thus, it’s sometimes hard to find international psyche that’s not in english. International Psyche is one of my favorite genres (if a genre at all) and Los Yorks are an excellent example. It features fuzzy guitars but not overly distorted as in later psychedelic. Not much in the way of long psyche jams, this is still pop music just through the psychedelic lens. More experimental then “68” with some backwards guitar and percussion generated through sound manipulation. You know, it occurs to me now that I think I’ve already reviewed this album on tumblr some time ago. Oh well. The older one was probably better. I can’t think of much to say. Honestly, I just thought it’d be funny to complain about my phonograph setup problems in a record review. Whatever. Let’s wrap this up. This album sounds like a cross between Creedence and Love, IN SPANISH!

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