Woo hoo!
It's Latin week! It's kind of a funny coincidence, because in the last month or so I've been able to really learn a lot about my friend Johnny's Colombian culture. I got to try arepa (which was unbelievable), manjar blanco (his mom ended up buying me a mini container of it), and buñuelos. Who knew Kunkletown had culture. But I digress. He actually was one of the first people got interested in Electronic music. The majority of people I showed it to thought of it as a novelty; music you play at rave party dance shows. You know, houseravedancetrancetechno can't be beat in those kind of venues.
For awhile, we didn't see eye to eye. I enjoyed the more Epic and uplifting style of Trance, while he was more interested in the Tech side of things. Eventually we sort of grew out of it, and pretty much began to listen to damn near everything. I knew he still loved Spanish music, as he grew up with it and it's part of his heritage. That's why I was excited to find out about Latin house; club oriented house music with heavy handed doses of Spanish flair. It's almost perfect. When I hear their music, I almost always imagine a huge group of dancing people just going crazy. This is not too far off of what happens with House. It's an amalgamate of 2 genres that are each, in their own right, geared towards dancing. Put them together and you get one hell of an infectious combo.