Wanna go out & dance?

• the Salsa Cityguide tells you exactly where to go for live music in Havana & many other cities all over the world, includes adresses, phone numbers & stories
• bands not mentioned on this site may be found in the artist gallery of Hot Salsa from France, or at Descarga

Wanna buy cd's? Some music shops on the web sell timba:

• Descarga, great shop! they really have a lot, and reviews too
• La Bodega Musical
• Amazon's music shop, send them your reviews!
• Tienda de musica Cubana, shop linked to Cuba's official homepage
• Mundial a shop based in the Netherlands
• Plato, another shop in the Netherlands
• JPR record club, from U.S.
• Jazz Con Clave, the very first cyber-Latino Record Shop

Record companies:

• Ahí-Namá online with video gallery! (Bamboleo, Medico de la Salsa)
• Bembé Records with audio samples (Irakere); specializes in Cuban music, based in US
• Bis Music in Cuba
• Egrem, Cuba's largest record company; more info on Egrem from Berlin
• Eurotropical with shop & audio clips (Klimax, Manolito y su Trabuco, Son Damas) & newsletter
• Fania Records
• Latina Records
• Milan Latino, based in Paris, have licensed the rights from Egrem to release Cuban recordings for compilations
• Qbadisc, based in US, brings contemporary Cuban music to the North American market
• RMM (Issac Delgado)
• Universal Latino (re-releasing some great timba cd's)

Wanna read? Here are some magazines:

• Salsa Cubana Digital, from Cuba
• Tropicana Internacional, la revista Cubana de Música: good articles; parts in English, more in Spanish
• Oasis Salsero, a monthly web magazine from the U.S. 
• Eurosalsa, magazine distributed from Germany

Wanna discuss?

• You can join discussions on timba and related topics at newsgroup rec.music.afro-latin or at soc.culture.cuba. For easier access to newsgroups go to Dejanews