Cult Cargo Belize City Boil-Up

• Lord Rhaburn – Disco Connection
• Harmonettes – Can't Go Halfway
• Jesus Acosta & The Professionals – Guajida
• Lord Rhaburn – More Love Reggae
• The Web – Rated G
• Harmonettes – Shame Shame Shame
• Soul Creations – Funky Jive Part 2
• Lord Rhaburn – Boogaloo a La Chuck
• Professionals – Theme From the Godfather

• 1. Lord Rhaburn – Disco Connection
• 2. Harmonettes – Can't Go Halfway
• 3. Jesus Acosta & The Professionals – Guajida
• 4. The Web – The Same Old Me
• 5. Professionals – A Part of Being With You
• 6. Lord Rhaburn – More Love Reggae
• 7. Professionals – The Back Stabbers
• 8. The Web – Rated G
• 9. Harmonettes – Shame Shame Shame
• 10. Soul Creations – Funky Jive Part 2
• 11. Lord Rhaburn – Don't Fight It
• 12. Nadia Cattouse – Long Time Boy
• 13. Lord Rhaburn – Boogaloo a La Chuck
• 14. Professionals – Theme From the Godfather
• 15. The Web – Things Are Going To Work Out All Right
• 16. Soul Creations – Funky Jive Part 1

Top compilation of 1970s music from Belize in Central America that fuses North American funk and soul with afro-latin and reggae influences! There is some really top notch stuff on here such as Disco Connection by Lord Rhaburn, and the album has been lovingly compiled by the folks at Numero with extensive sleeve notes and photos, all in a lovely slip case. The vinyl comes in a lavish gatefold! Very highly recommended! Samba Soul. Afro-beat. Reggae. What were once loose-fitting descriptions for American influenced homegrown R&B, are now but common parlance in the lexicon of genre classification. These regional movements all yielded monumental sonic innovations that returned to America with tidal force, eventually flooding the world with third world treasure. The music of Detroit and Memphis were quite possibly America's largest cultural export of the 1960s, spawning imitators with every radio wave that whispered "I've got sunshine..." or "Sittin' in the morning sun..." into the fertile ear of the uninitiated. For every Nigeria there were ten Ghana's, and every shiny Brazilian soulster had his counterpart in Peru, Argentina, and Columbia. Good news travels fast, and as the gospel of American soul hit the beaches of Trinidad, the Bahamas, and in this case, Belize, it was as though the Gods had not just spoken, but sung. A Cargo Cult is what happens when one culture begins worshipping the byproducts of another. Cult Cargo is the unexpected result of that devotion. It is here in these sixty odd minutes that The Numero Group unveils a style of music completely unknown to the greater world before we dragged it from the beaches of Belize. The national dish of Belize is made with a diverse mixture of ingredients, pig's tail, potatoes, plantains, bananas, boiled eggs, yams, whole fish, thrown in a pot, and boiled to perfection. They call it a Boil Up. The music of this collection combines equal parts of R&B, calypso, disco, funk, reggae, bruckdown, soul, folk, and whatever else can be found back on the bottom shelf of the musical pantry. This too is called Boil Up, and it’s anything but leftovers. Almost nothing was known of the records made in Belize between 1960 and 1980. A few bootleg compilations had lifted the Professionals break-laden cover of "Theme From The Godfather" while criminally ignoring their soul-cum-island-dancer "The Back Stabbers." The Soul Creations "Funky Jive" was a mid three figure single owned by few, though sought after by many before we turned up the remaining stock of that 45 in a dank basement under the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. That accidental discovery aside, Belize's CES label was a secret kept by time and a Belizean community that had moved away from phonograph records as soon as it was possible. The Numero label have taken special care in restoring these sixteen songs from their original analog sources, scouring through more than thirty reels and thousands of feet of tape. and spending hundreds of hours re-mastering, remixing and reevaluating, all in search of the perfect blend of passport stamped rhythms, second-deck cruise ship melodies, hotel pool calypso, soundtracks to movies not-yet-made, and anything else savory, or unsavory, enough to throw into the pot. This is Boil Up. Serve it hot.