
CRAMMED ARCHIVES 2 - RARE GLOBAL POP 1980S
Volti - Corazon (1986)
Beatbox electro Latino pop by a young Mexican/New Yorker duo (US/Mexico)
While living in Mexico City in 1980, young New Yorker Lyndell Brookhouse had a chance encounter in an all-night diner, which would change her life forever. She met a group of punks that included Eddie Rubello, and was swept into the wild local underground scene. The pair then moved to Lyndell’s home in NYC’s Lower East Side and joined the explorative downtown art scene of the early ‘80s. “If you were a painter, you were also in a band, and if you were a musician you also painted or made films” says Lyndell, “these were extraordinary times: the rise of a nurturing community with hundreds of artists (from which international celebrities such as Basquiat, Keith Haring
While living in Mexico City in 1980, young New Yorker Lyndell Brookhouse had a chance encounter in an all-night diner, which would change her life forever. She met a group of punks that included Eddie Rubello, and was swept into the wild local underground scene. The pair then moved to Lyndell’s home in NYC’s Lower East Side and joined the explorative downtown art scene of the early ‘80s. “If you were a painter, you were also in a band, and if you were a musician you also painted or made films” says Lyndell, “these were extraordinary times: the rise of a nurturing community with hundreds of artists (from which international celebrities such as Basquiat, Keith Haring