Review: La Mecanica Popular is the sound that is coming out of the more traditional house and techno equation, filtering through on our charts with a tropical edge that merges just about all the facets of world-dance music possible! Peruvian, Colombian, Cuban, and North American influences are blended up and served to you on a platter, via the currently unstoppable Names You Can Trust label. There are six parts here, all of them showcasing something to do with the carnival atmosphere, at times speeding up into high-tech percussion or otherwise offering moody, seductive waves of pseudo-balearica. In a nutshell, this is the very best of what contemporary world-dance has to offer. 10/10.
Review: Names You Can Trust's recent interest in all things Hispanic has proved particularly fruitful, and has possibly reached its peak with the self-proclaimed 'psychedelic salsa' collective, La Mencanica Popular. Their trippy sound is entrenched in 1970s salsa dura, but more otherworldly; "Paz Del Freak' sounds like a crazy 1960s Mexican film soundtrack, recorded at an open air cinema whilst aliens are overheard listening in, while "Guajiro" on the other hand is a spacey salsa semi-instrumental drowned in radio interference and feedback.
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