"Like salsa (...), cumbia can signify diverse things to audiences in Colombia (...), Panama, Mexico (...), Peru (where it's often known as chicha), Bolivia, Argentina (cumbia villera), Chile, and Brazil. Pablo Yglesias "DJ Bongohead" compiled this eighteen-track tour de force and, like the unruly, wide-ranging cumbia complex itself, there is something for everyone here. The "psychedelic" element traces its origins to the indelible impact that Carlos Santana in particular had on popular Latin American music from the late 1960s onward. Peru is the classic manifestation, from the Farfisa-surf guitar "jungle cumbia" signature of Juaneco y Su Combo (with the aptly titled Perdido En El Espacio - Lost in Space), to the cumbiadelic José Luis Carballo [and] the chichadelic Los Orientales De Paramonga ... More detailed notes about each of the combos would have been welcome, but whatever the case, it's a wild and woolly ride through a singular soundscape of many cumbia colours".
