«New York City» 1979 en Panama,
I like the hard sound setting and their disco dancing... 0:)

They certainly sucked the compas right out of those remixes. I like the concept, if they can do it with American oldies, why not Haitian compas oldies.

I'm with you, Jean-Luc because that is some serious funky compas Tabou is laying down right there. It's no wonder that Tabou captured the ears and hearts of the Panamanian people.

I wonder if anyone will ever uplopad the footage of Tabou & Wilfido Vargas jamming together on stage

Did that happen?
It remembers me their obscure “Gozalo” album with Magda Lake on Kubeney.

Of course it happened, did you think I was just typing just to type, . I once saw a small blurry clip of it on youtube in someones montage.

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/19/arts/sounds-around-town-568389.html*

Sounds Around Town
By Peter Watrous
Published: May 19, 1989

Caribbean Combination

Wilfrido Vargas's group and Tabou Combo, the Ritz, 254 West 54th Street (541-8900). A battle of the bands to dream about, this show combines two of the best Caribbean groups: Wilfrido Vargas's band, from the Dominican Republic, and Tabou Combo, from Haiti. Mr. Vargas is high in the royalty of merengue, a music with the fastest horn orchestrations man has ever devised. Tabou Combo's members, longtime residents of New York, play compas, a guitar-driven dance music that lasts all night but seems over in a second. Neither is likely to concede defeat, and both are dance-hall transcendentalists. The show starts tonight at 11; tickets are $20.50.

Wilfrido Vargas sample Tabou a few times on his albums.

Here is Wilfrido Vargas: "El Jardinero" is a combination of "Barrier" of DP Express and Tabou Combo

Here's another cover that I stumbled upon a few months ago.

Marcos Caminero - Tu Hombre*

This is a good example of what they call merengue clasico. The singer sounds as he copies Sergio Vargas. I'm surprised about the tone of the trumpet and trombone - it tries to get some impulsive flavor of Frères Déjean or something similar, very unusual in merengue.

Original Dan - Soy Parrandero* :P:
This is from Panama 2009.

Jean-Baptiste was given credit for inventing Compas.I think its a lovely music and awesome work.I am a student of microsoft exam* and often join Konpa events.

Hello Cindy, where are you from?

I am from Russia

That's interesting, how did you ever come across Konpa music?

this is "Passé Sou Ou", right?

found on Opa*