DUSTY BALLROOM VOL. 1: IN DUST WE TRUST | VINYL RECORD (LP)

Aloha dear Aficionado - welcome to Dusty Ballroom! It was in late 2008 in the heart of Berlin when the three passionate record lovers and partners in crime - Der Staubfinger, Elmo Lewis, and Ilo Pan - decided to launch a new series of vinyl-only club shindigs. Their aim was to break with the usual one-style-all-night-long-fixation that was served at most other vintage dances around at the time. Their ears were spread and minds wide-open for a vast variety of what they call the roots of their musical culture. Together they went on an ongoing trip - traveling back in time, digging deeper on the most dusty and faraway vinylistic shores, exploring heaps of lost treasures, black pearls, and entertaining flotsam - always looking for the perfect beat to hop with. Ever since blending styles ranging from 1920s Charleston, '30s swing and jazz though '40s jump blues, '50s rockabilly, mambo, cha cha, Cumbia, or calypso to '60s surf, big beat, ska, rocksteady, soul, mod, garage, psychedelia, early '70s funk, Afrobeat, boogaloo, Bollywood, and the whole world of mystic exotica they were eager to please a growing crowd of crazy cats, joyful jivers, and dirty dancers. Magic moves, consenting smiles, and some strange liqueur was what they got in return. Almost ten years have passed now and they still can't stop celebrating that steamy vinyl bounce once a month at the hottest venues in town - often supported by the most far-out vintage live bands of our time... Enjoy this wild aural selection of many different styles that should work perfectly for both - your booty shaking needs as well as your listening pleasures! 17 tracks recorded between 1966-1962. Features Enid Mosier & Her Trinidad Steel Band, The Olympics, Bill Black's Combo, Dorothy Collins, Jonah Jones, Gene & Eunice, Sil Austin, The Isley Brothers, The Shirelles, The Duals, Fatso & Flaire, Ruth Brown, Robert Parker, The Soupy Sales Show, Irene Lopez with Rio Gregory & His Band, Jamaica Johnny And His Milagro Boys, and Barbara George.