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MANGUITO DE SAL You might initially think "oh this is just ho-hum Peruvian cumbia" but seconds later you will drawn in to the subl...

Heard Welcome To The Machine for the first time since the 80s this year and can't believe how fucking great it is. The outa control swa...

NOCHE TROPICAL 1975 Juaneco y Su Combo are all about the poly-rhythms, designed specifically for good times dancing. At 0:52 we get a wicked...

CABALITO NOCTURNO 1969 Juaneco Su Combo  were there from the start ie. the conversion of old school cumbia (of the Colombian variety) into e...

VUELA CÓNDOR VUELA 1987 If you think all Peruvian cumbia sounds like The Ventures with Tito Puente on drums think again. The 80s ushered i...

CHINITO BAILARIN 1970 This tune... Peruvian cumbia at its most mesmerising, psychedelic and intense. There's a guitar line that starts a...

EL DRAGON Quite possibly my favourite tune from Maximiliano Chavez's Los Orientales.   El Dragon  from 1972 or 73 is the most unhinged t...

LA DANZA DEL MONO Guitarist and bandleader  Maximiliano Chavez claims his Los Orientales de Paramonga are the authentic band out of the tw...

LOBOS AL ESCAPE If you've only heard a handful of Peruvian psychedelic cumbia tunes chances are this is one of them. Iconic is right! No...

LOS WEMBLER'S DI IQUITOS 1974 If you could do a basic equation of what Peruvian cumbia (aka psych cumbia) is it would be surf/fuzz/wah-w...