Themes

Browse the catalog by style, era, and artist lineage. Buy something in a theme and we'll point you toward more of it.

80's Salsa

The synth-and-brass sound of the salsa boom.

1 transcription

Romantic Salsa

Salsa romántica's ballad-first, string-heavy sound.

3 transcriptions

Salsa Dura

Hard, horn-driven, uncompromising — New York at its most aggressive.

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New York Salsa

Latin jazz and big-band roots distilled into the Nuyorican salsa foundation.

2 transcriptions

Fania

The Fania All-Stars catalog — the label that defined salsa as a genre.

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Celia Cruz

La Guarachera de Cuba, from Sonora Matancera through her Fania years.

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Willie Colón

Trombone-led arrangements and streetwise storytelling.

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Timba

Modern Cuban timba — dense horns, odd-meter breaks, songo grooves.

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Merengue

Fast Dominican two-step — tambora, güira, and horns in constant motion.

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Cumbia Colombiana

Accordion-and-gaita roots through cumbia's orchestral evolution.

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Grupo Niche

Cali's own — elegant, horn-forward salsa.

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El Gran Combo

Puerto Rico's "University of Salsa" — decades of dance-floor staples.

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Tito Nieves

"El Pavarotti de la Salsa" — soaring balladry from the Nuyorican salsa-romántica era.

2 transcriptions

Songo

Afro-Cuban songo foundation, often fused with funk phrasing and instrumentation.

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Latin Jazz

Jazz harmony and improvisation over Afro-Cuban and Latin American rhythmic foundations.

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Christian Valdés

Original compositions by Noted Sound's own Christian Valdés.

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Rubén Blades

Panamanian salsa's own "thinking person's" songwriter — Son del Solar and beyond.

1 transcription

Frankie Ruiz

"El Papá de la Salsa" — the voice that defined salsa romántica.

1 transcription

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