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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

San Juan Sound

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

San Juan Sound is an iconic studio where musicians, engineers, and quite possibly a music-loving ghost carry on the Island’s musical traditions, which date back hundreds of years. This episode is produced in partnership with Discover Puerto Rico.

Transcript

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0:00.0

In a building in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Ancaya de la Tanca, Armando Lopez and his band

0:13.6

Epilohio are noodling around.

0:17.6

There's an engineer there with him too, his name's Mateo.

0:26.0

The studio is on the second floor, it's great with natural light and there are black and

0:30.2

white checkered tiles on the floor.

0:32.8

Armando and Mateo are trying out various ideas, different drum templates, basically just

0:38.1

messing around.

0:39.7

And it was on a day like this, when suddenly.

0:46.2

The old jukebox in the corner of the room turns on by itself.

0:52.0

We were recording.

0:53.0

It was like, what's that sound, and it went to the heavens up, dude, it was freaky.

0:58.4

I said, oh, you know, I said, oh, I'm sorry, and they said, no, let the song play.

1:06.0

Let it finish.

1:07.5

Mateo, the engineer, he owns and runs the studio and he had bought this jukebox from an old

1:12.3

man whose wife had just died.

1:14.6

The old man had told him that his wife had loved the old jukebox.

1:19.7

She would sit there every night from 6 to 8 o'clock and listen to the jukebox in her favorite

1:24.2

songs.

1:25.2

Damn.

1:26.2

It's her.

1:27.2

It's her, dude.

1:28.2

Yeah, it could be her.

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