Fundamental

Artist: Puya
Label: Fontana Mca
Category: Music

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Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 008811185923
EAN: 0008811185923
ASIN: B00000HZDC

Release Date: 1999-01-26

Fundamental

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Tracks:

Oasis
Fake
Fundamental
Montate
Whatever
Retro
Keep It Simple
Sal Pa' Fuera
Remora
Trinidad
Solo
No Inventes

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Customer Reviews:

Fun Stuff.......2006-06-29

I have friends into heavy music of most varieties, so the fact I didn't come across this band for half a decade shows you that they had some marketing problems. I only learned about these folks when I stumbled on an old sampler disc that Megadeth distributed. Puya's song on it grabbed me, but this CD was even better than I expected. As with Max Cavelera's tribal metal or Candiria's jazz metal -- fusions that sound as though they won't work until you actually hear them -- Puya's music offers an unlikely combination: Latin, metal, and rap/funk musical elements. The result is sometimes fun and sometimes intense but rarely boring. They'll go from sounding like a heavy-metal Santana on one song to sounding like what Incubus might have produced if Brendan had been Puerto Rican. Good stuff.

brilliant.......2006-02-18

I don't really know what else to add about this band. read the review from "RICH" he pretty much nailed it on the head.

Vital to any CD collection.......2004-05-09

This band should be HUGE!! The fact that it is not (they actually are not even currently signed to a record label) is a testament to both bad marketing and the general public's lack of imagination. This band single handedly created a new genre: "salsacore". They bring elements of tropical music, hip hop, jazz, and speed metal together to create what I consider a masterpiece. The variety and musicianship in this recording is impeccable. Some songs are so extreme that you don't know whether to dance or headbang. My advice: do both and buy this CD. You will not be dissapointed.

Great mix of different types of music.......2002-02-21

On FUNDAMENTAL, PUYA brings us some hard rocking songs that have a latin feel to them also. The percussion and horns on this album show us something unique and different from what is being played today. OASIS, FAKE, FUNDAMENTAL,MONTATE, are good songs that start the album off and they rock. WHATEVER is an average song, it is mostly rap, but the music is still there with some good beat but I personally could have done without the rap. RETRO slows down abit, but as the song plays on, it picks up its tempo and turns into a hard rockin song. KEEP IT SIMPLE is another slower song, it has some positive lyrics, but I think it is just an average song SAL PA FUERA picks the tempo back up and is a good song to rock to. REMORA is a fast, furious song that kicks ... and should make all the hardcore fans happy. TRINIDAD is a tribute to the boxer Felix Trinidad. Even though I dont care for the fighter myself, I wont hold that against the song,, it rocks. SOLO is almost a totally salsa song that the listener will start to dance to when played. NO INVENTES is the last song on the album. It has a heavy bass to it and rocks but it leaves me wanting for more. All in all, FUNDAMENTAL is a good album for metal fans who want to hear alittle spice to their music

This isn't "latin pop," this is BORIQUA METAL!!.......2001-11-01

I heard Puya's record while still a college radio DJ, and it struck a nerve with me. Being a metalhead of Latino heritage, I didn't have many peers or touchstones to go by. So when I heard of a Puerto Rican metal group playing out of Florida who just signed to MCA, I knew something big was about to happen. But enough about my reactions; let's get to the record.

Puya play what the uninitiated and trend-happy refer to as "nu-metal," but with a major and most welcome twist. A very puertoriqueno vibe can be found throughout their sound (Think Pantera and Biohazard jamming with Tito Puente [Vaya con Dios] and Carlos Santana). Add some Spanish-language rapping and you have a sound that's as heavy as metal gets and yet still remains as familiar and as homesickness-inducing as the island.

"Oasis," "Sal Pa' Fuera" and "Retro" are the rockers on this disc that will have you screaming the lyrics (isn't Spanish a beautiful language?) and punching stuff in no time, even with the timbales and horns in the background. "Remora," "Keep It Simple" and "Trinidad" will have you dancing salsa one minute and moshing the next with their boriqua sensibilities and neck-snapping riffage. "Solo" is the high-water mark here; a soulful and yet crunching ode to integrity, ethnic pride and familia that will have you singing, dancing, moshing and hugging your famms all in the space of four minutes.

The short of it is this: If you like metal with originality and (more importantly) soul, then Puya is the band you're looking for.

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