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Rare groove The DJ who wants to give away all her records

On a hillside an hour from Madrid lies a sprawling, tropical-hued complex crammed with 1950s Mexican film posters and prowled by the odd decorative monkey and jaguar. It is the home of the Gladys Palmera collection, the largest private archive of Latin American music in the world

In its numerous niches and cabinets and on its many, many shelves sit 60,000 records, 50,000 CDs and countless cassettes and

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