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Photo by Patricio Cartas Vancouver cumbia psych-rockers Empanadas Ilegales just released a new single off their upcoming album, and if you liked "La Danza Del Vampiro,' you're going to love "Tobogan." This new song is a cover of Los Benfords' "El Tobogan," which was the first salsa song Empanadas Ilegales learned to play. They've added psych-rock elements to make the song sound more like themselves, and the results are infectious. It's a fusion of psychedelic music, salsa, and jazz. It's a smooth and trippy sound that demands the listener dance in some form. If you can sit through all of "Tobogan" and fight the urge to move even a little, you might not have a soul.  Guitarist and vocalist Ricardo Perez says of his band's latest single: “We go and go and go, and then we blow your mind.” You can watch the video for "Tobogan" below. Creepy Mambo: Rooftop Sessions is due out April 12 on We Are Time Records, and is ava...

Photo by Iris Chia We've been getting more and more cumbia or at least cumbia inspired music submitted to us, but this may be the first cumbia-psych song we've covered. "La Danza Del Vampiro" comes from Vancouver's Empanadas Illegales, and it's one of the more fun songs we've brought you this year. A mostly instrumental song, it's beyond dance friendly, and is a combination of salsa, jazz, and psych rock. Even if you're not typically into world or Latin music, "La Danza Del Vampiro" could just well win you over. The psych sound Empanadas Illegales bring to their music gives this such a unique spin on all genres involved. Guitarist/vocalist Ricardo Perez says of the band's new song: “This is our homage to an old school cumbia song from the 1950s by Sonido Verde de Moyobamba. Whenever we travel we go digging to find music that you can’t hear anywhere else, and when Danny went back to Colombia he found this record. It has a very happy vi...