Desorden Público
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Desorden Público is a ska
/rock band founded in 1985 in Caracas
, Venezuela
.
The band's music mixes ska, latin rock, reggae
and traditional Latin music styles. The group's lyrics are known for commenting on Venezuela's and Latin America
's politics and society. Influenced by the English 2 Tone
movement, Desorden Público's embraces different languages and promotes racial and social tolerance. The band has a dozen or so releases to their name and have had platinum sales, #1 and top 10 hits. They have tours that have taken them all over Latin America, North America
and Europe
.
Ska
Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
/rock band founded in 1985 in Caracas
Caracas
Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...
, Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
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The band's music mixes ska, latin rock, reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
and traditional Latin music styles. The group's lyrics are known for commenting on Venezuela's and Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
's politics and society. Influenced by the English 2 Tone
2 Tone
2 Tone is a music genre created in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s by fusing elements of ska, punk rock, rocksteady, reggae, and New Wave. It was called 2 Tone because most of the bands were signed to 2 Tone Records at some point. Other labels associated with the 2 Tone sound were Stiff...
movement, Desorden Público's embraces different languages and promotes racial and social tolerance. The band has a dozen or so releases to their name and have had platinum sales, #1 and top 10 hits. They have tours that have taken them all over Latin America, North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
and Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
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Discography
- Desorden Público (CBSCBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
, 1988). LPGramophone recordA gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
, reedited in CD in 1993 - En Descomposición (CBS, 1990)
- Canto Popular de la vida y muerte (1994)
- Plomo Revienta (1997)
- ¿Donde está el Futuro? (1998) compilation
- Diablo (2000)
- Todos sus éxitos (Sony MusicSony BMG Music EntertainmentSony BMG Music Entertainment was a recorded music company, which was a 50–50 joint venture between the Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann AG...
, 2001), compilation - The Ska Album (Megalith, 2004) compilation for the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
- DP18 (2004)
- The Ska Album (Leech Redda/Ebersee, 2004) European edition of The Ska Album USA
- Estrellas del CaosEstrellas del CaosEstrellas del Caos is a 2006 album, of the Venezuelan Ska band Desorden Público. It includes seventeen tracks.-Track listing:#El caos en clave / Presentación#Hardcore Mambo#Hipnosis#No vale la pena#Antarjami#Espiritual#El Tren de la vida#Pegajoso...
(2006) - Los Contrarios (2011)