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Article: The Miami sound The Spam Allstars' Latin-fusion beat gets crowds dancing
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 11, 2007
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MIAMI - It's midnight and things are just getting started at Hoy
Como Ayer, a dark and narrow club in Little Havana. A lanky guy with
a shaved head has been working the turntables on the small stage at
the far end of the room, and the crowd is laid back but restless,
waiting for what they come to hear almost every Thursday night.
When six musicians hop on the stage to join the DJ, it's as if an
electric current has been switched on. A saxophone wails and a conga
drum reverberates through the space. The familiar tap, pause, tap tap
of the claves pulses like a collective heartbeat. The throng surges
toward the stage, women in short skirts and high heels, guys in baggy
pants and tight shirts, ...