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The national dish of Belize is a diverse mixture of ingredients: pigs tail, potatoes, plantains, bananas, boiled eggs, yams, and whole fish, thrown in a pot and stewed to perfection. They call it a boil-up. Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up combines equal parts R&B, calypso, disco, funk, reggae, bruckdown, soul, folk, and other sounds scraped off the musical pantrys bottom shelf, though its anything but leftovers. See the Harmonettes speedy, robustly recorded take on Shame, Shame, Shame or tropical pulse and electro stabs on Lord Rhaburns Disco Connection. Before our very own Rob Sevier showed up on Belizes sand-swept shores, little was known of the tiny Central American nations vibrant musical history. Since then, weve scoured the catalog of Belizes lone record label, Compton Fairweathers C.E.S., for choice delicacies derived from American genres gone mutant under intense Belizean sunlight, gathering a hurricane of battered photos, album sleeves, and ephemera, amassing a sound souvenir thats more like a recorded jaunt through a dance-infected Belize long gone. Our sturdy gatefold double-LP edition includes two bonus tracks...dashes of extra flavoring you wont find plated by any other Numero product.