If you don't know who Dave Nada is, hes a great producer from Washington DC. Feezyduzit promo had one of its best shows with DJ Craze and Bird Peterson (who is a kiler dj and producer as well) for the Loft's 1 year anniversary. Nada crowd surfed and danced his way to one of Dallas's best shows of 08. So earlier this year he was doing this reggaeton/cumbia thing with slowed down big room house hits. He even put out an EP for this sound on Tittsworths label, 'Riverside' being my favourite remix.
I thought of this and slowed down one of my favourite disco jams of all time Candido's 'Jingo'. This was actually a take on Nigerian drummer Olatunji's 'Jingo', which was on 1959's 'Drums of Passion'. Carlos Santana also covered this song on his first album and still plays it to this day.
from various reference sources this is what ive come up on his bio:
Candido Camero (born April 22, 1921) is a Cuban-born percussionist (mainly Conga and Bongo) who backed many Afro-Cuban and straight-ahead jazz acts starting in the 1950s. He is credited as the first person to use the congas in jazz music.
Early on he had recorded in his native Cuba with Machito. He moved to New York in 1952 and started recording with Dizzy Gillespie. During 1953-54 he was in the Billy Taylor quartet and in 1954 he performed and recorded with Stan Kenton. He also enjoyed some hits during the disco era, most notably with the Babatunde Olatunji penned track "Jingo" which he recorded for Salsoul Records, which released from his Dancin' and Prancin' album. It peaked at #55 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1981. On January 15, 2009 he was the surprise guest at Zinc, a jazz club in New York's Greenwich Village.
He was honoured with the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award in 2008.
If you are interested music listener or any form of dj, you should really check out this guys discography. I can't tell you all the secrets here(i'm sure many djs already know and respect his work), but to me the guy also nailed the deep jazzy house sound before the style existed (or house existed for that matter) on the song on 'Thousand Finger Man'. What is even kooler is that he made 'Jingo' and TFM in his fifties. Funk never dies fo' real!
Its amazing this dude is still alive and kicking(as far as i can tell).
I did an edit of this song, with some backing flavor from every reggaeton producers favorite riddim, dem bow. Most people think reggaeton is from mexico, but its roots of popularity are more in Puerto Rico. The actual drum beat is from reggae producers Steely and Clevie from Jamaica.
i call it Jingo-aton
JINGO-ATON by FEEZY33
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