Various Artists, Putumayo Presents: Latin Groove - 42m 59s

Tracks & Durations

1. El Carretero	3:40
2. Salsita	4:01
3. Linda Manigua	3:52
4. El Estuche	3:19
5. Soy Callejero	4:34
6. Chan Chan	4:37
7. Latin Flavour	3:04
8. Bizcocho Amargo	4:16
9. Yorulamento	3:01
10. Sensemaya	4:55
11. Cumbia De Los Muertos	3:32

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Review

On Latin Groove, classic Latin traditions are transformed to the brink of mutation, but their native elegance is left intact. Funkanzazenji weave flamenco guitars and kora-like glissandi through sturdy colonnades of drum & bass on "Latin Flavor." El Conjunto Massalia's "Chan Chan" is based on a son by Compay Segundo, but veers off into Steve Cropper guitar riffs and prurient, Serge Gainsbourg-like vocals. "Yorulamento," by the German-based producer Supatone, mutates a stately charanga string section via reverberant synths and drum machines. Colombian rockers Los Aterciopelados, with their slap-happy montuno/house rhythms and whiskey-voiced chanteuse, are silkily subversive, while Ozomatli's "Cumbia de los Muertos" grounds a Mexican cumbia with heavy hits of reggae and hip-hop. As with Putumayo's Arabic Groove and World Lounge compilations, these tracks are post cards from the world music frontier, where mischievous, culturally promiscuous DJs are constantly inventing breathtaking new hybrids. --Christina Roden

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