Joe Bataan
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Biography
[Edit]No recording artist has more impeccable street credentials than Joe Bataan, the originator of the New York Latin soul style that paralleled Latin boogaloo and anticipated disco. His musical experience began with street corner doo wop in the 1950s, and came to include one of the first rap records to hit the charts, 1979's "Rap-O, Clap-O." In between these milestones, he recorded classic albums like Saint Latin's Day Massacre, a perennial favorite in the salsa market, Salsoul, which gave the record label its name and helped spark the national explosion of urban dance music, and Afrofilipino, which included one of the very earliest New York disco hits, an instrumental version of Gil Scott-Heron's "The Bottle."
Born Peter Nitollano, of African-American/Filipino parents, Joe Bataan grew up in Spanish Harlem, where he ran with Puerto Rican gangs and absorbed R&B, Afro-Cuban, and Afro-Rican musical influences. His music career followed a pair of stints in Coxsackie State Prison. Self-taught on the piano, he organized his first band in 1965 and scored his first recording success in 1967 with "Gypsy Woman" on Fania Records. The tune was a hit with the New York Latin market despite its English lyrics sung by Bataan, and exemplified the nascent Latin soul sound. In early anticipation of the disco formula, "Gypsy Woman" created dance energy by alternating what was fundamentally a pop-soul tune with a break featuring double-timed handclaps. Bataan would take this tendency even further on his influential Salsoul, which fused funk and Latin influences in slick yet soulful orchestrations. Salsoul remains influential as a rare groove cult item, and pointed to the future at the time of its release. The LP embodied the artist's highly deliberate and culturally aware musical concept. Bataan theorized the '70s next big thing as a hybrid: an Afro Cuban rhythm section playing Brazilian influenced patterns over orchestral funk. In many ways, his vision was on the money, though most of the money would go to others and mainstream stardom would elude him. He did, however, get in on the ground floor of the new trend as an early hitmaker. His biggest commercial move was a Salsoul production released under the Epic umbrella, and promoted to the new disco market as Afrofilipino, which included 1975's "The Bottle," a much-anthologized classic that drives an R&B horn arrangement with a relentless piano montuno.
Always in touch with the street, Joe Bataan picked up on rap very early in the game. His minor rap hit, "Rap-O, Clap-O" was a bit more successful in Europe than in the States, and is remembered as rap's debut in the European market. Nevertheless, his legacy remains his gritty and realistic Latin soul lyrics, his self-identification as an "Ordinary Guy", and his highly personal and prophetic merger of Latin and soul influences.
Title: The Lost Sessions - New York 1976
Artist: Joe Bataan
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, World Music, Latin
Title: Anthology
Artist: Joe Bataan
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Soul, Dancefloor, Latin, Disco, Dance Pop
Title: Drug Story
Artist: Joe Bataan, Roberto Clemente, Eddie Lebron, The Edwards Generation
Genre: Soul
Title: Salsoul
Artist: Joe Bataan
Genre: Electronica, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Dancefloor, World Music, Disco, Dance Pop
Title: Afrofilipino
Artist: Joe Bataan
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Dancefloor, Latin, Disco, Dance Pop
Collections
Title: Nights At the Studio
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Salsoul Classics Vol. 1
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Disco Boogie Vol. 1
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Armada Fania
Title: ESL Remixed
Genre: Electronica
Title: Lifestyles of the Slow & Low, 17 Classic Oldies
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Latin DJ All Stars
Title: Sunday In Bed, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop, Alternative
Title: New York Salsa
Title: Salsoul Salsa's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Genre: Latin
Title: Salsarican
Title: El Barrio: Latin Disco
Title: Sounds From The Spanish Harlem
Genre: Latin
Title: Salsa's Greatest Hits, Vol.1
Genre: Latin
Title: El Barrio Funk
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Latin, Funk
Title: Latina Fever 2015
Genre: Latin
Title: Zealous Records Presents: Soul Sides, Vol. 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Latin Jazz Favorites
Genre: Jazz
Title: Cuba Caliente
Title: Fania Latin Soul Essentials
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Latin
Title: Sounds from El Barrio
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Latin
Title: Leyendas De La Fania Vol 2
Genre: Latin
Title: Fania Records - 60's Gold
Title: Que Viva la Salsa
Title: Fania Live 01 From The Meat Market With DJ Rumor
Genre: Latin
Title: Hip Hop Anthology CD 4
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Enciclopedia De La Salsa Vol 39
Genre: Salsa
Title: Ursadelica
Genre: Electronica
Title: Dance The Latin
Genre: Latin
Title: Mega Salsa CD4
Genre: Latin
Title: Los 100 Mayores Exitos De La Musica Disco CD 1
Genre: Pop
Title: 60'S Gold Musica Latina
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Pop
Title: Latina Caliente - Salsa 1
Genre: Salsa
Title: Disco Fever 2007 CD1
Genre: Disco
Title: Pulp Fusion 15 (CD2)
Title: Foute CD Van Q - Music Vol. 11 CD2
Genre: Electronica, Rock, Pop
Title: My Salsoul
Genre: Disco
Title: The Rough Guide To Latin Funk
Genre: Soul, World Music, Latin, Funk
Title: Alle 40 Goed (Disco) (CD1)
Genre: Dancefloor, Disco, Pop
Title: Mega Disco (CD4)
Title: Salsoul Presents: Latin Funk Flavas
Genre: Funk
Title: Rap Story (1980-2000) (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap
Title: 80er & 90er Party Best Of Maxi Power Vol. 5 (CD3)
Genre: Pop
Title: Diggin' Salsoul Breaks
Title: Soul For Lovers
Title: Grand 12-Inches 8 (CD4)
Genre: Dancefloor
Title: Latina Party 2014 (CD2)
Featuring albums
Title: Lifestyles of the Slow & Low, 17 Classic Oldies
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Salsoul Salsa's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Salsa, World Music, Latin
Title: When The Rain Begins To Fall
Artist: Ltj Experience
Genre: Downtempo, Chill Out, Electronica, House, Deep House, Latin, Lounge
Title: ESL Remixed: The 100th Release Of ESL Music
Artist: Thievery Corporation
Genre: Electronica, Soul, Funk
Title: Cafe Aperitivo (Italian Awakenings)
Artist: Montefiori Cocktail
Title: Kyoto Jazz Massive: 20th Anniversary KJM Works Remixes + Re-Edits
Artist: Kyoto Jazz Massive
Genre: Nu Jazz
Title: Calentura: Toque (Captain Planet Remixes)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Fania Records 1964-1980/The Original Sound Of Latin New York
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Latin