Latin Playboys is a musical group comprising David Hidalgo

David Hidalgo

David Hidalgo is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Los Lobos. He is also a member of the supergroup Los Super Seven and of the Latin Playboys, a side project band made up of some of the members of Los Lobos...

, Louie Pérez

Louie Pérez

Louie Pérez is an American songwriter, percussionist and guitarist for Los Lobos, and Latin Playboys....

, Mitchell Froom

Mitchell Froom

-Career:Froom began his career as a keyboard player in Sonoma County, California. The band Crossfire featured two keyboards players; Mitchell on one side of the stage and brother David on the other with Gary Pihl on guitar...

 and Tchad Blake

Tchad Blake

Tchad Blake is an American record producer, audio engineer, mixer and musician.He has worked with numerous artists and musicians, including State Radio, Apartment 26, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel, Pearl Jam, Tom Waits, Richard Thompson, Brazilian Girls, Sheryl Crow, November 2nd, Travis, Marike...

, active in the 1990s.

History

The band began with a series of demo recordings made by Hidalgo on a home cassette tape 4-track machine. The demos were intended for Hidalgo's main group, Los Lobos

Los Lobos

Los Lobos are a multiple Grammy Award–winning American Chicano rock band from East Los Angeles, California. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños.-History:The...

, but producer/keyboardist Froom thought the demos were interesting enough on their own to justify a new band. With Los Lobos member Pérez, and Froom's frequent production partner Blake, Latin Playboys was formed.

The group released two albums, Latin Playboys, in 1994, and Dose, in 1999. The songs "Manifold de Amour" and "Forever Night Shade Mary," both from the 1994 self-titled debut album, are featured on the soundtrack album for the 1995 film Desperado

Desperado (film)

Desperado is a 1995 action thriller film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. The film stars Antonio Banderas as the former mariachi who seeks revenge on the drug lord who killed his lover....

.

Critic Richie Unterberger described their music as "a twisted and avant-garde take on roots music. Latin Playboys draw from blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

, border music, experimental studio trickery, and cinematic sound textures."

Albums

• 1994 Latin Playboys
  Latin Playboys (album)
  Latin Playboys is the self-titled debut album of the Experimental band Latin Playboys.-Reception:Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album a positive review and named it the best release of 1994.-Track listing:# "Viva la Raza" – 2:45...
  
  (Self Titled)

Track listing:

1. Viva La Raza 2:48
2. Ten Believers 3:17
3. Chinese Surprize 3:07
4. Mira! 1:25
5. Manifold De Amour 2:02
6. New Zandu 3:13
7. Rudy's Party 2:31
8. If 1:41
9. Same Brown Earth 3:45
10. Lagoon 2:28
11. Gone 2:52
12. Crayon Sun 3:09
13. Pink Steps 2:06
14. Forever Night Shade Mary 3:04

• 1999 Latin Playboys (Dose)

Track listing:

1. Fiesta Erotica 3:09
2. Cuca's Blues 3:14
3. Ironsides 1:46 (in film Desperado)
4. Mustard 3:28
5. Nubian Priestess 1:59
6. Dose 2:33
7. Latin Trip 2:58
8. Tomenta Blvd. 2:08
9. Lemon 'N Ice 3:50
10. Locoman (LP Version) 2:48
11. Toro (LP Version) 0:38
12. Paletero (LP Version) 3:13
13. Paula Y Fred (LP Version)