Name: Super Freak
Brand: Pucho and The Latin Soul Brothers

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

L-CUBOP006

Colour

Black

Colour details

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

180-gram vinyl

Format Music US

Limited edition

1000

Release date

2022-11-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Fatbeats

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

780661500612

Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Pucho and The Latin Soul Brothers

Genre US

South American - Latin

Label US

Ubiquity

Black Friday 2022

The opening track on 1972's Super Freak is a brilliant, nearly side-long medley of three tracks from Curtis Mayfield's Superfly: the title track, "Pusherman," and, of course, "Freddie's Dead." Heavy, druggy, and psychedelic, with thick organ and wah-wah guitars, the medley sounds more like the psychedelic soul of War or even Funkadelic than the sparkling Latin jazz of Pucho's earlier albums. The rest of Super Freak is a little lighter in tone, but this is still the most groove-oriented and least overtly Latin jazz-oriented of this group's albums, trafficking instead in shuffling grooves like "Oak Hurst's Art" and vibes-led ballads like "Judy's Moods" and "One More Day." Latin jazz purists may balk, but this later became a classic of the '90s acid jazz movement, which some sources date to the U.K. hip-hop group Galliano pinching a sample from this album's version of "Freddie's Dead" for the 1989 single "Frederick Lies Still." -AllMusic

Super Freak

Music US