{"title":"Discos Fantástico!","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"single-from-1970-1980","title":"Single from 1970 - 1980","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a valley formed by the Huallaga River lies a temperate land located on the eastern slopes of the central Andes of Peru: Huánuco. A little more than seventy years ago, in that land of mountains and starry skies at almost 2,000 meters above sea level, Juan Nájera was born. A multifaceted musician by profession, he did not always have the privilege of being able to dedicate his life to music. For almost ten years he ran a family hardware store in Huánuco and then a mechanic shop on La Marina Avenue in Lima. He was also a truck driver. A decade of military dictatorships in Latin America made the artist’s path very hard in the region, and Peru was no exception. Nájera was only nineteen when his first son was born. He had to make a living and the possibilities for entrepreneurship were slim. But if we go back in history, Juan Nájera was, first and foremost, a boy who dreamed of becoming a musician. Later, he was a boy who made it. Los Darlings de Huánuco managed to cross borders, not only in the capital of Peru, but also abroad. There are many collectors and music lovers around the world who seek and appreciate their songs, musical gems that have toured different latitudes and have\u003cbr\u003emanaged to position this band from the Peruvian countryside in the most remote places on the planet. In a country characterized by its centralism, where opportunities in the countryside are much scarcer than in the capital, where the foreigner is greeted with more warmth than the local, and where getting ahead, especially in the musical field, implies an extraordinary effort, Los Darlings de Huánuco managed to take their sound to where they never thought it would be possible. From the Andes to the skyscrapers, from the heart of Huánuco to the immensity of other continents.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Discos Fantástico!","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":53721317835083,"sku":"R9670-4676","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/DarlingsdeHua_nuco.jpg?v=1761314029"},{"product_id":"ritmo-satanico","title":"Ritmo Satánico","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Peruvian cumbia band Los Diablos Rojos was born within the quincha and adobe walls of Cañete Chico with a proposal very different from what all the musicians of the time were working on: an instrumental tropical music style of their own. Even Enrique Delgado (Los Destellos), Beto Cuesta (Los Ecos) and Berardo Hernandez (Manzanita y su Conjunto), who all found a source of income in música criolla, did not limit themselves to working for hire. They were all crossing the same bridge, the bridge of tropical music. Above all, the sense of renewal was the incentive for this bet. If they wanted to change the paradigm, they would not do it by copying styles they had already heard many times\u003cbr\u003ebefore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday, Los Diablos Rojos are known around the world for a unique tropical sound that has transcended passing fashions and managed to hold its own in an era marked by transience and oblivion. Over the years, they have become the forerunners of a trend that has been developing for half a century and is gaining more and more praise and recognition. They have become a musical reference for other contemporary tropical music bands that have found in Los Diablos Rojos, above all, an example of creativity and resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Discos Fantástico!","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":53721352307019,"sku":"R0476-8438","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/LosDiablosRojos.jpg?v=1761314532"},{"product_id":"carreteando-vol-i","title":"Carreteando, Vol. I","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the story of Los Sanders, many sources can be found to understand the emergence of “chicha”, a style associated with the life of migrants in the city that saw its heyday in the 1980s, but also to understand the connections between youth music, “new ola”, and rock with tropical rhythms. Los Sanders serve as a bridge between periods and styles, and their ability to adapt to musical genres and reinvent them has given them a unique style. Los Sanders de Ñaña reflect a Lima that was transforming, giving way to a new face and a new urban soundtrack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the universe of Peruvian tropical music, one can distinguish a wide variety of styles. One of the most unique is known as the “carretero” style, also referred to as the “Carretera Central” sound, which alludes to the sound developed by a series of musical groups that became known during the 1970s in the areas surrounding this major highway. At that time, this area received a large influx of migrants from the provinces who came to the capital in search of a better future. The initiators of this carretero style were Los Sanders de Ñaña, and following them, other groups emerged, not only creating a unique style but also establishing a circuit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Discos Fantástico!","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":53721398346059,"sku":"R0476-8439","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/LosSanders_Cover.jpg?v=1761314699"},{"product_id":"arrollando-con-alegria","title":"Arrollando Con Alegría","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo talk about Grupo Alegria is to propose an approach to the origins of Andean cumbia. 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Two of them were Augusto Bernardillo and Victor Guzman, who founded Grupo Alegria in 1979\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe popularity of Grupo Alegria in the chicha scene reached levels never seen before: they sold out stadiums and coliseums in concerts comparable only to those of Soda Stereo and Indochine in Lima in the late 80s. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"... 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At a time when being from the Andes often meant invisibility or shame, Los Shapis stood tall—joyful, loud, and unapologetically themselves. Their visual style, stage presence, and bold self-representation challenged Lima’s cultural hierarchy and inspired a wave of artistic and social change. More than just a band, Los Shapis became the voice of a movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmerging from the Andean highlands in the early 1980s, Los Shapis sparked a cultural revolution in Peru with their vibrant fusion of huayno, cumbia amazónica, and electric guitar riffs—an explosion that defined chicha music. Their sound was a bold declaration of identity: psychedelic, emotional, and provincial. With anthems that gave voice to the struggles and dreams of Peru’s migrant communities, Los Shapis became icons of integration and resistance. Now, for the first time on high-quality vinyl, their trailblazing debut is reissued for a new generation— restored, remastered, and ready to electrify the global dancefloor once again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Discos Fantástico!","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":53721501696331,"sku":"R0042-1254","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/LosShapis_Cover.jpg?v=1761315655"},{"product_id":"sensual","title":"Sensual","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Sensual” , her debut album, is one of the greatest gems of Venezuelan bolero. The backing of the Porfi Jiménez Orchestra and his arrangements made “Sensual” one of the most successful albums of its time. The selection of the twelve songs on the album was also a success. Although the years of the bolero's greatest splendor seemed to have passed, the bolero continued to spread throughout Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRediscovering \"Sensual\" almost 60 years after its release, and listening to it on the same magnificent vinyl format that Estelita Del Llano used to launch her solo career - which continues to this day - is a pleasure for the original audience and a revelation for new ones all over the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy 1963, great Latin American artists such as Lucho Gatica, Felipe Pirela, Bienvenido Granda, Leo Marini, Benny Moré, Tito Rodríguez, Toña La Negra, Blanca Rosa Gil and the so- called queen of boleros, Olga Guillot, had enriched the musical landscape, giving personality to the bolero. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat year, in the midst of a new panorama, a bolero star was born from the depths of Venezuelan radio: Estelita Del Llano.“Sensual”, her debut album, is one of the greatest gems of the genre, with arrangements and orchestration by Porfi Jiménez.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe backing of the Porfi Jiménez Orchestra and his arrangements made “Sensual” one of the most successful albums of its time. 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