Juanitos - Glitter Bomb

Gotta love a Best of release, particularly when it's the Best of Jaunitos.  We happened to notice this tune was the most popular Juanitos tune (there are quite a few) on Jameno.com during 2014. In fact, it had 140,000 downloads and most of the others were around 40,000.  Our interest was piqued.


It's a great tune.

A snappy 60's beat with an upbeat lounge sensibility and horns.  What more could you ask for?

We posted some Jaunitos early in the year and here we are back at the trough...love, love, love.

Juanitos - Glitter Bomb

Mr. Juan - Baby You're Really In Love

Today's post comes from France-based musician Juan Naveira aka Mr Juan who is also known for his side projects, Juanitos, Miss Emma and Limbo Deluxe. We had the pleasure of discovery when we posted a tune by Juanitos at the end of December. It was awesome to find his solo projects in February.

Our selection is from a 2013 release called London Jerks. Ahhh. French/British amity abides.

Here is a note from Mr. Juan's website:

If you dare to call it as « muzak » then you should admit it is a sort of arty muzak whose inspirational sources do hark back to whimsical space age pop and elfish exotica/tiki pop in addition to the aforementioned sections.

Elfish Exotica is awesome.

Mr. Juan - Baby You're Really In Love

Juanitos - Hola Hola Bossa Nova

Bouncing toward the New Year!  Biotic is in Montreal.  Bon Annee grande nez! Went looking for some exotica lounge music and hit the jackpot with this one from Jaunitos. It appears on a Various Artists release called netBloc Volume 24 (tiuqottigeloot) from blocSonic.  This release is really fine up and down.

Here is something from a Last FM writeup on Juanitos:

Juanitos, led by Juan Naveira, is the single French rock’n’roll and soul band mixing latin soul, exotica, acid jazz, punk, vocal pop and somtimes reggae roots in the Jackie Mittoo style. They are continuously looking for new tones, and integrate a large range of musical influences, for instantaneous pleasure. The Juanitos are not losing any marks throughout music, fashion and industrial sounds that bloom and pass.

Juanitos is a find.  If your looking for some sultry tunes to ring in the new year, look no farther.  There is a really nice Free Music Archive collection of material that is worth a listen.

Have fun.

Juanitos - Hola Hola Bossa Nova