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O. Diaz | St. Petersburg, FL | 09/10/2003

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This CD has a somewhat misleading title. The cover shows reproductions of 4 Spanish EP sleeves dating back to the mid-60s, but since the record company does not seem to have all the masters for these recordings any longer, they have substituted 4 tracks with others that were never included in the original releases and have gone to the extent of optically altering the titles on the record sleeves to reflect these changes, so the word "originales" should be taken with a very large grain of salt here. All of the tracks have already appeared in several compilations, so I suspect that recycling them here is a blatant attempt at squeezing a dollar out of hardcore collectors who will buy anything and everything with the artist's name and picture on it. If you don't already have these selections, then by all means, get this disc, as it offers an excellent sampling of this Latin group's output from 1965 to 1968. For those who already own everything, you may want to overlook this pointless rehash and wait until a fresher reissue comes along."