Are CDs back yet? If you’re anything like the person who’s writing this, compact discs are still an essential part of your media diet because it’s the only way you can listen to music while you’re driving around in your twenty-year-old Volkswagen Jetta.
These eclectic bundles of drilled CDs from the vault include some of our catalog's heaviest hitters—Clinton, Si*Se, Los Amigos Invisibles, Zap Mama, Susana Baca, Jim White, and, naturally, Luaka Bop’s patron saint Tom Zé. Each bundle comes with a mystery CD (fun!) chosen randomly by us, with joy. We’re shipping these bundles out from New York HQ, exclusively—but you can get some other CDs of ours shipped from Europe through Bandcamp. Find those here.
Your Options, if you so choose:
- The EVERY CALM REVOLUTION UNDER A LASER, HISSLESS...SHALL GRANT YOU RELAXATION AND HAPPINESS bundle: With Luaka Bop 10th Anniversary: Zero Accidents on the Job, Tom Zé's Hips of Tradition, Jim White's No Such Place, and Los Amigos Invisibles's The Venezuelan Zinga Son Vol. 1
- The ALA MOANA HOTEL, COMMERCIAL RECORDING STUDIO, PLEASE. KINA. bundle: With Clinton's Disco and the Halfway to Discontent, Shoukichi Kina's Peppermint Tea House, Si*Sé, and Afro-Peruvian Classics: The Soul of Black Peru
- The WHO'S PUTTING DYNAMITE IN THE HEAD OF THE CENTURY? bundle: With Los Amigos Invisibles's The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera, Adventures in Afropea 3: Telling Stories To The Sea, Zap Mama's 7, and Tom Zé's Massive Hits
- The DID SOME MYSTERIOUS VOICE TELL YOU I'D STILL BE HERE? bundle: With Brazil Classics 3: Forró etc., Susana Baca's Espíritu Vivo, Dance Raja Dance: The South Indian Film Music of Vijaya Anand, and Jim White's Wrong-Eyed Jesus