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I am a big fan of Calle 13. Although their songs can be a little risque, there is some serious talent in their rhyme composition and imagery. Plus, their beats are just infectious. I would recommend the CD to anyone who knows and likes their unique style.

Pa'l Norte Superb

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Of all the songs, Pa'l Norte stands out, reflecting the sentiments so well described in the documentary of Calle 13 touring Latin America, exploring diverse heritage and history. These themes are totally applicable to New Mexico as well. The compelling video for Pa'l Norte featuring Orishas is so artistic that each scene is a vivid painting, music and visuals perfectly in synch. The mix of traditional imagery with cutting edge lyrics and superb vocals is unique.

None of Calle 13's videos are cliched, there are no moronic women equipped with shaking rears. Calle 13 doesn't have to prove anything, and haven't sold out. These guys are so in control of the images in all their work. They are playful, innovative, in your face, and so creative they should be even better known.

calle 13

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The cd's great came in just in time no scratches of any knid nothing more or less.

Put down that Buena Vista Social Club CD...

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...and pick this up, homeboy! What's that? The Good Old Days, you say? How old did you say you were? Oh, you sentimental old soi-disant avant-gardist! Get with the program! Adorno said it all in the forties, anyway: "culture now imposes the same stamp on everything". So there were these dreams of "authenticity" - you collected every Ocora and Nonesuch Explorer and Unesco LP (now you've really dated yourself). Um...you must have missed that moment when Ocora issued three young French buddies sitting around in a Paris apartment singing and playing a bunch of tunes and issued it, with the usual cover, as "Chansons Yiddish - Tendresse et Rage" (Ocora C 570800). Yiddish? which country is that? When was that? 25 years ago? OK, never mind...The point is - "Pan - Latin", like it or not, is the Latin of today - yes I know Cortijo did it a million years ago...but this is, in fact a better disc than that classic "Time Machine". That always felt a bit forced to me. This, on the other hand, is like someone's I-Pod gone nuts - and yet within its Pan-Global generality it has its own real specificity. No accident that Cortijo, Willie Colon (who brought Puerto Rican trad music to Puerto Rican Cuban - misread Salsa) and Calle 13 all are from Puerto Rico. Is this an American version of Manu Chao? Or Pan-Balkan music? Maybe it's only that - but I like it! More than those other hybrids, that's for sure. It's funny, it's musically brilliant, it makes me feel 100 years old...What else is there?

4.5 stars

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Casi excelente!!! Sólo que no apto para puritanos o personas de oído sensible a los insultos y las malas palabras. Genial para los de mente abierta y que disfrutan de la crítica social.
"Un beso de desayuno" es la que más destaca, por ser la única verdaderamente romántica y extremadamente poética. No por gusto al principio dice el Residente:
"Esto es pa' que veas que yo también puedo escribir cosas bonitas"