Helen Gamboa Northern Soul Philippines!

 Jonal Records : 1967!! Pinay Soul Sista!



 Filipina actress, singer and model Helen Gamboa released a slew of 45s in the 60s & 70s covering soul hits of the day. Here's her take on Shirley Ellis' classic northern soul stomper "Shing-A-Ling Time," arranged and conducted by "D'Amarillo" and featured in the Filipino film SHING-A-LING-A-LOO in which she also starred.

Manila Sound Bonanza Vol.1 Now Available!!

MSB Vol. 1

1. Boogaloo Party- J. A & The Jitterbugs
2. Crazy Music- Vilma Valera
3. Do the Popcorn- Helen Gamboa
4. Good Love- D' Howlers
5. Groovin' - Pilita Corrales
6. Mary, Mary- Orly Ilacad & The Ramrods
7. Mr. Big Stuff- Helen Gamboa
8. The Breakdown- The Grandells
9. The Good, the bad, the ugly- Relly Coloma
10. Israelites- Vilma Valera
11. Shake- Eddie Mesa
12. Funky Broadway- Orly Ilacad & The Ramrods
13. Meeny Meeny- Norma Ledesma

Compiled by Dj Arbie Won & Dj Umph
A Cant Stop! Diggin' Produckshun 2011

After months of intense digging and compiling, we're now dropping the 1st installment of our Manila Sound Bonanza series..Volume one puts the spotlight on the lost 45 singles from late 60's and early 70's Soul/Boogaloo era.With dancefloor scorchers from Female singers such as Helen Gamboa (with her own version of "Do the Popcorn),also a toprank groovy original from Vilma Valera (Crazy Music,written by a young Danny Subido circa late 60's). Also from Vilma is a Desmond Dekker original, "Israelites", but done in a uptempo soul style,sure to rip the northern soul scene if there is one here in Manila hehe. Garage bands are also all over the place here, with J.A and the Jitterbugs leading the comp with "Boogaloo Party", from the soundtrack of the movie of the same title..The Jitterbugs are also the backing band for Helen Gamboa in most of her singles. A young Orly Ilacad and his ramrods drops a nice Pinoy version of "Funky Broadway".I like it. Pilita is also here with "Groovin", probably ya'll heard it as the intro song for the last "Kagatan" video..A nice instrumental jam from Relly Coloma,"The good the bad and the ugly" should give the B-boys some floortime..Relly Coloma's albums are usually lounge organ music that your lola listens to while stitching your undies, but in this track he lets the drums up front in the studio and does his Booker T. mode...Closing off the comp is a regular in our sets already, the danzfloor ready "Meeny-Meeny" from fellow Fabulous Four member, Norma Ledesma...
For those who wants a Cd just hit us up and we'll hook you up..
Already in the works is Vol.2, this time charting the local Rock,Psyche and Garage tunes, and other Volume this time going Disco and Modern Soul...

"Do the Popcorn"


"Meeny-Meeny"

New mixtape!! "Solar Funk" Summer 2011 Mixtape

Summer is here in the P.I!! Beaches,roadtrippin,babes and of course good music!! Here's a special treat for this summer, Satisfunkion guaranteed! with some of my favorite summer funk jams for your summa soundcrack!



download here!!

http://www.mediafire.com/?sb47fz56hw8u2kz

bonus..included in the mix is the best summertime version ever!!this is punker than punk!

Vilma Valera "Israelites"

Danzfloor filler!

That's Vilma Valera on the left, counterpart of Helen Gamboa for the Boogaloo queen of the Phils. during the late 60's..



The original vershun!

New Digz! 45' stylee

Ok its been a while since i shared yall sumthing...still tryin to finish that new mixtape but for the meantime,let me share some new(but old) tunes i've excavated from the dusty garages of Metro Manila recently..this time we'll focus on some filipino 45' singles ressurrected for your eardrums..
Ok first off is an artist im really feeling at the moment, and been in steady rotation on my soul and funk sets..Her name is Helen Gamboa.She's a big moviestar back in the 60's and i've just found out that she released a lot of cool singles during that era. Here's one of her slower jams from back in the day..They dont arrange music like this no more so savor it. This one is arranged by D' Amarillo..No doubt the Don Sebesky or Richard Evans of the Philippine studio scene in the 60's and 70's.



Ok next up.Most probably know im also into obscure,cheese,but interesting tunes that never really got their proper shine during their era.. this one i bought it because of the title. "Walkie-Talkie love" is a disco pop (is that moog i hear?)ditty by Nimfa Aguilar.During the 70's they dont have sidekicks and iphones yet so all they have is a walkie talkie to communicate with..ya they probably brought it with them at the disco houses(no texting)..I love this track.



From Soul and Disco now we move to Jazz Fusion territory.. Most of my peeps laugh when they see my Ryan Cayabyab cd in the studio,like i've gone soft on my shit. But i tell em, "wat the funk u think Ryan is just good for Josh Groban and all them symphony shit?!!"Well Mr. C is also a good arranger-producer when he started out in the 70's, but then he made a lot of money so he forgot about his bellbottom roots and just switched onto forgettable stuff. This killer track is from the Pinoy Jazz album (1977-78)which was recently reissued.The intro alone is straight up cough-syrup soundtrack,wha the hell is a Telebong anyways?? Another Pinoy Jazz album came out,by Eddie Munji and these two records are one of the most seminal filipino records that came out in the 70's. ..So let's enjoy Ryan one more time as he goes Bob James style on this track.