Growing up in Florida, and particularly when I lived in the Dominican Republic, there were always several kinds of Latin-based music pumping out of apartments, cars, shops; when I was little, it all basically sounded the same to me, but as you grow up and fall more in love with music generally, one begins to notice that there are certain types of songs, or beats, that you gravitate towards---now, as a grown adult, I can distinguish exactly what it was that captured me about some tunes and not others: percussion. This track, by Panamanian scenesters Bush y sus Magnificos, has a fucking army of congas, bongos & djembes that hold the reigns, and they are so categorically funky that my ass moves without conscious thought, dig?!
