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Topic: Los Amigos Invisibles


In the News (Sat 28 Nov 09)

  
  International Spotlight - LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES
Los Amigos Invisibles are comprised of vocalist Julio Briceño, percussionist Mauricio Arcas, keyboardist Armando Figueredo, guitarist José Luis Pardo, drummer Juan Manuel Roura and bass player José Rafael Torres.
In a crusade to convince the owne rs of forgotten discoteches that dance is not only salsa and merengue and that electric guitar is not the same as Punk, Los Amigos Invisibles start to conquer the club scene in Caracas thus offering their friends a way to party.
From now on music is now longer a hobby and becomes the profession of the band members, they start to tour around the world and to listen to new acts and new styles of music; in between we find of course Masters at Work's "Newyorican Soul" which becomes a permanent addition to their CD holster.
www.umusicpub.com /spotlight.aspx?id=1539   (572 words)

  
 The World: Global Hit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Los Amigos Invisibles lead singer and co-founder Julio Briceno says it's Venezuelan slang for a sex party.
Los Amigos Invisibles began their career in Caracas, just three friends, in the early nineties.
But Los Amigos Invisibles deal with that in their own particular way: by writing funny, funky, and randy tunes.
www.theworld.org /globalhits/2004/08/09.shtml   (722 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Los Amigos Invisibles
Like the Simpsons and their different personalities, each Amigo brings a different sensibility to the family's musical dynamic and overall identity.
For Wednesday's show at the Edge, Los Amigos are likely to preview songs from The Venezuelan Zingason, which came out overseas on July 14.
Los Amigos Invisibles perform at 7pm on Wednesday (Aug. 13) at the Edge, 260 S. California Ave., Palo Alto (650.289.0222).
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.07.03/amigos-0332.html   (639 words)

  
 Los Amigos Invisibles - Arepa 3000, The Venezuelan Zinga Zon Vol. 1 Review
Los Amigos Invisibles - Arepa 3000, The Venezuelan Zinga Zon Vol.
Los Amigos Invisibles - The Venezuelan Zinga Zon Vol.
Although their style is a bit retro they manage to keep relevant with all the samples used even with all the sexual references.
www.musicemissions.com /display_review/959   (395 words)

  
 clevescene.com | News | Los Amigos Invisibles
Based in Caracas, Los Amigos Invisibles hosts underground club nights, plants its tunes on Venezuelan radio, and records clever, over-the-top music.
These invisible friends are clearly tuned into house, hip-hop, and techno (though the CD fortunately lacks the cold feeling that techno can project).
They are so versatile and witty, one wonders how they'll translate their unique, expansive take on the groove to live performance.
www.clevescene.com /issues/2000-09-21/playback2.html   (249 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: Los Amigos Invisibles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Oddly enought, Los Amigos Invisibles (hailing from Venezuela) have outdone many English-speaking musical forms, tossed in some spot-on Latin ones and generally come up with an album that sparkles with quality from beginning to end.
Two tracks are clearly about masturbation (the funk-jam "Masturbation Session" and the Latin hyperkinetic merengue "El Baile del Sobón." Lewd crude and always funny, Los Amigos Invisibles show some real wit, musically and lyricaly, for a knockout punch.
Los Amigos Invisibles sing, play and act as if it's still early in the Sexual Revolution and maybe you should lob a Molotov cocktail or two.
www.ink19.com /issues/october2000/wetInk/musicLM/losAmigosInvisibles.html   (337 words)

  
 Plan 9 - Los Amigos Invisibles : The Venezuelan Zinga Son Vol. 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Plan 9 - Los Amigos Invisibles : The Venezuelan Zinga Son Vol.
Los Amigos Invisibles - The Venezuelan Zinga Son Vol.
Los Amigos Invisibles presents their album VENEZUELAN ZINGA SON VOL.
www.buymusichere.net /rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=12&upc=76648524394   (86 words)

  
 Los Amigos Invisibles News
For 15 years, the little Venezuelan disco band that could, Los Amigos Invisibles, has thrilled audiences with sweet dance music - funky and chic with a cheeky retro kitsch in the visual department.
Los Amigos Invisibles -everyone's favorite Venezuelan disco love-funk ensemble- have spent the last two years elevating their status as global scenesters and dance music afficianados by...
For the Caracas, Venezuela, rock/funk band Los Amigos Invisibles, the British music magazine Melody Maker was like a window to the world.
www.topix.net /who/los-amigos-invisibles   (436 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Venezuelan Zinga Son, Vol. 1: Music: Los Amigos Invisibles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Los Amigos Invisibles has a loyal cult following in the Americas and Europe, and even though in 2001 its members decided to move to Brooklyn to be closer to their producers, sound engineers, and intellectual mentors (which include David Byrne), they still make almost daily appearances at their website, and are on constant tour.
If you are unfamiliar with Los Amigos Invisibles, and all you have to go on are Amazon's song samples and this review, please, take my word: this is a musical experience that goes beyond the cliches of a "latin" or "samba" sound.
In this new work, Los amigos Invisibles, not only show his particular sound of Acid Latin Jazz, but they expose his maturity and versatility in each of the songs.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001XAPXS?v=glance   (1271 words)

  
 Los Amigos Invisibles - tribe.net
Los Amigos Invisibles in SF on April 15 topic
Los Amigos Invisibles at the conga room in L.A. Nov 25 2005 photo flag
Reminder: Los amigos invisibles concert in SF this sat.
tribes.tribe.net /amigosinvisibles1   (67 words)

  
 Los Amigos Invisibles : AREPA 3000
"[Los Amigos Invisibles] has taken the rhythmic sass in salsa, the bass-heavy fun in funk, and even the note-bending bile in acid-jazz, and mixed it all up to produce an infectious beat.
Mixing house, funk, and Latin elements with nods to hip-hop, drum 'n' bass, and lounge, Los Amigos' versatility is worth their weight in vinyl.
Expect more of a dance vibe from the Amigos when they board their 1986 custom Venezuelan spaceship for a U.S. tour.
www.luakabop.com /losamigos/cmp/info_new.html   (948 words)

  
 JamBase | Los Amigos Invisibles | Bio
Los Amigos Invisibles -everyone's favorite Venezuelan disco love-funk ensemble- have spent the last two years elevating their status as global scenesters and dance music afficianados by remixing Beastie Boys, Basement Jaxx and Fantastic Plastic Machine, and collaborating with Dimitri fron Paris.
The results can be heard in the airy vocals of Una Disco Llena, the effortless jam of Venezuelan Zinga Son, the smoking percussion of Calne, the extended Bacchinalian dance groove of Bruja and on the album's tribute to rare disco - a cover of Touchdown's '82 dance hit: Ease Your Mind.
"Los Amigos Invisibles have taken the rhythmic sass in salsa, the bass-heavy fun in funk, and even the note-bending bile in acid-jazz, and mixed it all up to produce an infectious beat.
www.jambase.com /search.asp?bandID=16820&display=bio   (427 words)

  
 Kennedy Center: Millennium Stage Artist Details: Los Amigos Invisibles
Their 1995 debut album, A Typical and Autoctonal Venezuelan Dance Band, was a hit in their homeland, due in part to their relentless touring and a series of underground dance parties the band hosted at clubs throughout Caracas.
Soon after their arrival in New York, Los Amigos Invisibles signed with David Byrne's (Talking Heads) Luaka Bop and quickly released their US debut, The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera, in 1998.
The electric and eclectic Latin dance outfit Los Amigos Invisibles calls its music gozadera (party music)— a combination of euro-dance, disco, jazz, rock and electronica.
www.kennedy-center.org /programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=AMIGOINVIS   (227 words)

  
 Los Amigos Invisibles Downloads :: calabashmusic.com
Now they kick off the summer of '03 with a brand new album, Venezuelan Zinga Son, a hot slice of new Latin dance produced by house music legends Masters at Work.
Los Amigos Invisibles present an harmonic convergence of catchy-chorus pop and after hours bump 'n' grind - all combined with that certain Latin flavor that makes you horny.
Los de Abajo endeavour to present Mexico in its crazy-quilt...
losamigosinvisibles.calabashmusic.com   (363 words)

  
 Salsa Fusion Band ~ Los Amigos Invisibles at SOBs Salsa Club ~ New York City ~ 2/26/04 - justsalsa.com
Los Amigos Invisibles played at the SOBs Dinner Club New York City on February 26, 2004.
All of the tables and chairs had to be removed from the club to make room for the over capacity crowd.
Los Amigos Invisibles are a Venezuelan fusion band that plays some intense music.
www.justsalsa.com /newyork/clubs/sobs/2-26-04   (179 words)

  
 Los Amigos Invisibles: The New Sound Of The Venezuelan Gozadera ---Ink Blot Magazine
I knew I'd love Los Amigos Invisibles from the very first words on the album: "Güelcome to a new sound of the Venezuelan gozadera, a fusion of different elements of Latin dance and sex culture." Who wouldn't go gaga for a line like that?
But I know my new love is true, because Los Amigos are just so damned smooth.
José Luis Pardo, the main songwriter, is one hell of a guitar player, and the actual songs are so well-constructed that I can't stay away for long.
www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Los_Amigos_Invisibles.htm   (566 words)

  
 Tower Records - Arepa 3000: A Venezuelan Journey Into Space - Los Amigos Invisibles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Los Amigos Invisibles includes: Jose Luis Pardo (guitar); Armando Figueredo (keyboards, background vocals); Juan Manuel Roura (drums).
Like Dr. Octagon, Los Amigos Invisibles have skipped the banality of Y2K and set their sights on the next millennium on AREPA 3000: A VENEZUELAN JOURNEY INTO SPACE.
The hipster boys from Caracas have followed Sun Ra's travel advice and loaded their hormonal South American blend of acid jazz disco/funk/lounge/house on a rocket ship, bound for grooves of a higher order.
www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=1905812   (466 words)

  
 Los Amigos Invisibles: Arepa 3000: A Venezuelan Journey Into Space ---Ink Blot Magazine
Los Amigos Invisibles: Arepa 3000: A Venezuelan Journey Into Space ---Ink Blot Magazine
But my beloved Invisible Friends have found the oft-rumored/never-glimpsed Fourth Path, and Arepa 3000 demonstrates what it is: Make an album exactly like your last one EXCEPT that this one is a concept album about the first Venezuelan manned space mission.
Los Amigos Invisibles New Sound Of The Venezuelan Gozadera
www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Los_Amigos_Invisibles_Arepa.htm   (479 words)

  
 Los Amigos Invisibles : The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Los Amigos Invisibles : The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera
Listeners tired of hearing Latin dance music riddled with drum machines and cheap synthesizers will be enchanted by The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera, as Los Amigos Invisibles are fully committed to playing all their own instruments.
Arto Lindsay - Noon Chill; Los Palominos - Te Seguire; Presuntos Implicados - Siete; Grupo Límite - Canta con Limite; Grupo Límite - Baile del Millon; Grupo Límite - De Corazon Al Corazon; Mercurio - Tiempo de Vivir; Manu Chao - Clandestino; Los de Abajo - Los de Abajo;
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,334374,00.html   (261 words)

  
 YouTube - Amigos Invisibles en Guadalajara.
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Los Amigos Invisibles - Esto es lo q hay-1
www.youtube.com /watch?v=TzurDgND9sc   (115 words)

  
 VH1.com : Los Amigos Invisibles : Artist Main
VH1.com : Los Amigos Invisibles : Artist Main
A performance-oriented Latin dance band from Venezuela heavily indebted to funk and disco (with a dash of acid jazz), Los Amigos Invisibles made a big splash in their homeland in 1995 with their debut album, A Typical and Autoctonal Venezuelan Dance...
Radio VH1 stations that play Los Amigos Invisibles
www.vh1.com /artists/az/los_amigos_invisibles/artist.jhtml   (211 words)

  
 LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES : BIOGRAPHY | V2 MUSIC : UNITED STATES
Los Amigos Invisibles —everyone's favorite Venezuelan disco love-funk ensemble— have spent the last two years elevating their status as global scenesters and dance music afficianados by remixing Beastie Boys, Basement Jaxx and Fantastic Plastic Machine, and collaborating with Dimitri from Paris.
Now they kick off the summer of '04 with a brand new album, Venezuelan Zinga Son, a hot slice of new Latin dance produced by house music legends Masters at Work.
Infused with the albums warm summery beats and early '80s keyboard sounds are the street sounds of Caracas, and a bit of nostalgia for the warm weather and easy life of the Caracas that the Amigos once knew.
us.v2music.com /site/actbio.asp?ID=108   (288 words)

  
 Los Amigos Invisibles
Following up on their American debut (The New Sound Of The Venezuelan Gozadera), Los Amigos Invisibles ditch their rambunctious melange of Latin-tinged disco and funk, and instead set up a neo-jet-set front, co-opting every imaginable sound from dance destinations from here to Goa.
It’s almost like having Arling and Cameron consolidate the entire back catalogue of Brazil ‘66 into a small handful of well-crafted songs.
But on the other side of the coin, for every delightfully breezy gem on this album, the Amigos deliver half-baked, white-bread numbers, that deliberately play on Americans’ ongoing fetish for homogenized, limp "Latin" music.
www.citypaper.net /articles/092800/mus.dq5.shtml   (165 words)

  
 KEXP 90.3 FM - where the music matters
Los Amigos Invisibles mix funky retro dance sounds from the 70s with jazzy keys, psychedelic rock guitar, pop vocals and Latin rhythms.
Originally from Venezuela, now based in Brooklyn, Los Amigos Invisibles heat up the KEXP studios with a smokin' live set of neo-retro Latin-jazz-funk.-M. Myers
KEXP is licensed to the University of Washington Copyright 2005 KEXP All rights reserved
www.kexp.org /aspnet_client/KEXPViewMediaGroup.aspx?rID=2717&pID=528&fID=539&artist=JR   (102 words)

  
 newtimesbpb.com | Music | Los Amigos Invisibles
Primal salsa funksters Los Amigos Invisibles deliver again, making good on the promise of Zinga Son's swinging first track, "Rico Pa' Goza."
Channeling everything sexy from the 1970s -- bossa nova, funk, and classic salsa -- the Invisible Friends team up with seminal house duo Masters at Work for a sound that shimmers like beads of sweat under disco lights.
But don't let the smooth grooves fool you; Los Amigos are as naughty as ever.
www.newtimesbpb.com /issues/2004-06-10/music/shortcuts2.html   (173 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The New Sound Of The Venezuelan Gozadera: Music: Los Amigos Invisibles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Starting off with "Ultra-funk," and continuing with "Mi Linda," the pace is set: jammin' funk rhythms that even a dead person can tap a beat to.
I know that the Amigos' lyrics are humorous and even vulgar at times, and maybe that was what they wanted to do in between many of the 19 total cuts.
Especially when there are bands like Los Amigos Invisibles, producing such great music, with this edgy sexy style of play.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000062VC?v=glance   (918 words)

  
 Los Amigos Invisibles : AREPA 3000
On their 1998 U.S. debut, New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera, South American swingers Los Amigos Invisibles came off as hipster dorks in serious heat.
Sounding as stylized as their terry-cloth pool wear and chest-flashing polyester shirts, the sextet spun slobbering funk and disco flashbacks into anal sex-obsessed valentines.
Arepa 3000 couldn't be a more surprising follow-up, a post-testosterone cold shower that–save for the adolescent elecro groan-a-thon "Masturbation Session" and the hot-neighbor peep show "La Vecina" – replaces slimy sexcapades with dreamy love hangovers, doggie-style decrees with swooning pleas.
www.losamigosinvisibles.com /cmp/spin_2000.html   (288 words)

  
 YouTube - Los Amigos Invisibles - Superfucker
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Los Amigos Invisibles @ Cabarete, República Dominicana 2005
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 Los Amigos Invisibles: Ponterte en Cuatro
Los Amigos Swapmeet is an indoor swapmeet located at East Bakersfield CA offering merchandise, and free entertainment.
A sexy cowgirl is hotter than a pistol and she's about to go off, thanks to the funky disco sound of her invisible friends.
They're anything but invisible here, however as the don obnoxious Devo-esque yellow jump suits.
www.ifilm.com /ifilmdetail/2667778?cch=   (228 words)

  
 Los Amigos Invisibles - AOL Music
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