A Plea For Help: Mexican Dancehall Mix CD aka Fleamarket

Sometimes your friends go on tour and when they come back from tour they have amased some neat musics from their travels. They might pick up a really neat mix CD from New Orleans full of their distinctive rap called Bounce. Maybe they got a weird demo from some cool dudes in Dekalb, IL or got some cool recordings of whales from a very chill hippie street vendor on Venice Beach. You like this. New weird stuff from places is awesome, and sometimes these CDs are really awesome and you cannot stop listening to them, but sometimes your friends forget where they get things from and have no information to help you figure out where this music is from and how you can get more of it. It's true--the character of "you" in my hypothetical is in actuality me in real life. My friends Adam and Jona bring me good stuff, and last year they brought back MP3s of a CD that were just marked "Mexican Dancehall" and "Fleamarket." Searches upon searches have turned up nothing. I now turn to you, the public, as I am desperate for information. I need for music like this. I need to be able to appropriate the adulation that I am holding onto right now.

This image is not the cover of the CD. I just needed an image, because what would a Greatest Band entry be without an image. This image is for a mix cd of the dancehall riddim entitled Mexican, which is sorta related but definitely not what I'm looking for. Fleamarket is packed with 29 hot jams that don't really fall in line with any genres or sub genres of music and more specifically dancehall I've heard before. While the beats are definitely within the Dancehall realm with its off kilter slap tap style they are topped with Spanish rapping or toasting. Wait, you say, by that description this must be reggaeton music, right? I don't think so, it doesn't have the same feel of reggaeton. It feels more free and party than reggaeton as the disc is filled with samples of 80s new wave plus 80s and 90s rap jams and also sorta has that slow moving double decker bus blaring house music vibe like the Vengaboys or something. It's totally irressitible. I think that is how I'm describing music I love these days: irressitible. It's a great quality. So, yeah, if anybody knows anything about this CD or what this music is, please let a dude know, until then all I know about Fleamarket is that this mix CD that I know so little about is the Greatest Band of All Time.