For the next instalment, we’ve asked Andalusia-born, Newcastle-based Santa Leticia , to give us an insight into a special record from her collection.

Santa Leticia is a selector, curator, DJ, and radio host on Worldwide FM known for her eclectic, soulful, genre-traversing sets. Inspired by her Andalusian roots alongside travels across Latin America, the Caribbean and beyond, her sets can touch on anything from jazz to rare groove, funk and disco to soul and reggae. She hosts a bi-weekly show on WWFM and has been quietly making a name for herself as a go-to DJ supporting the likes of Luke Una, Mr Scruff and many more.

"I found Jamaica Ska in a Sunday market in Oaxaca in 2012, during my first road trip around Mexico with some of my closest Mexican friends. I was backpacking around the country and, naturally, I was always looking for records along the way. We ended up in this beautiful market full of antiques, tapes, cassettes and piles of old LPs.

I already knew Toño Quirazco from some of his more Latin and tropical records, like A Ritmo de Boogaloo with Toño Quirazco y su Show Cartier, and funkier tracks like Makossa en Acapulco, so when I spotted Jamaica Ska it immediately caught my attention. The seller had a little portable record player on his stall and offered me a cup of café de olla while he played it. I put the needle down and immediately loved it. The condition was really good, the price was great, and I bought it there and then.

At the time I was living in London and going to the South London Soul Train and Funk, Soul and Rare Groove nights at the Bussey Building in Peckham, just around the corner from my house. I was also going to nights where DJs like Natty Bo, Count Skylarkin and Lady Kamikaze were playing incredible old 45s. I loved dancing to ska, rocksteady, calypso, cumbia, soul and rhythm and blues all mixed together, and those nights definitely influenced the way I started collecting records, especially 45s and Jamaican music.

I was already deeply into Jamaican music, from mento, calypso and jazz influenced records from the 40s and 50s through to ska, rocksteady and early reggae. So hearing a Mexican musician making a whole album around ska was a real discovery.

What I love about the record is that it doesn't sound like someone simply trying to recreate Jamaican ska. You've got the offbeat guitars and brass, but then there's the Hawaiian steel guitar, tropical arrangements and all these little Mexican touches. It feels completely its own.

Later I found out more about Toño Quirazco. He was from Xalapa, Veracruz, and was already making tropical and Latin music when Discos Orfeón sent him to Jamaica in the mid 60s to learn about ska. Jamaica Ska came out on DIMSA, one of Orfeón's labels, and you can see that little DIMSA logo on the original sleeve. He listened to local bands in Kingston, bought Jamaican records and brought the sound back to Mexico. Apparently he even sped up the rhythm because he felt Jamaican ska was too slow for Mexican audiences. I love that. He heard something he liked, took it home and made it his own.

Growing up in Andalucía (Spain) Caribbean music never felt completely foreign to me either. Rumba, Cuban music and salsa were always around, so maybe that's part of why this record connected with me so quickly. Somehow, Mexico, Jamaica and Andalucía don't feel that far apart when I listen to it.

I don't really play this one out. It's much more of a record for home. I love putting it on on a sunny Sunday morning while I'm making chilaquiles verdes for breakfast, coffee on, windows open, and letting the whole album play.

I've been back to Mexico several times since that first trip, and it still feels like home. Whenever I put this record on, I think about Oaxaca, those friends, the market, the café de olla and that little portable record player. It's one of those records where I can still remember exactly where I found it, who I was with and what it felt like to hear it for the first time. That's what makes it special to me."

Thanks to Leticia for taking the time out to speak to us for this feature be sure to follow all her goings on via her instagram.