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The album is Just too good a listen for me to get hung up on ethnocentric bellyaching about how I can’t understand half of the almost exclusively Spanish lyrics. The man, whose actual name is Pablo Diaz-Reixa, has an incredible gift for rhythms and tunes, which allowed the songs to suck in even my purely English-speaking friends on the strength of their composition alone. I almost referred to El Guincho as a techno artist for how much his brisk nine-song run made me want to get up and dance. Don’t let that turn you away, though. Diaz-Reixa knows better than to get lost in the electric grind of that genre or any other genre, for that matter. The songs move and float with a palpable energy that manages not to be manic, recy cled or pretentious. I heard what has to be steel drums in the opening track "Bombay” alongside sounds that are a little too manu factured to be anything but. It would have been easy to fall into the niche of the self righteous artist who uses only obscure instru ments to prove his musical purity or lazily lean on a purely synthesized sound, but El Guincho suffuses his sound with an organic mixture that keeps my toes tapping. It’s difficult to put Diaz-Reixa in a particu lar genre, but I really don’t have to. As he explains in the opening of the “Bombay” video, Diaz-Reixa uses "Pop Negro” to explore the human condition with imagination, and the chaotic video reflects that. It’s a jumble of images such as a man threatening a panda doll at gunpoint. His cousins also contribute a short beach surfing video set to their mutual favorite “FM Tan Sexy.” I could stop and ask what any of this has to do with the music, but that defeats the purpose. It doesn't have to make sense because the world is so often nonsensical. El Guincho asks us to kick off our shoes and let down our hair in the name of enjoying the world around us, even if it’s not exactly clear what that means. Finding out is half the fun, and if El Guincho is going to score our romp through reality. I’ll be leading the charge. Patrick Hooper The Red i Black puDHeftM daily during sadi Mmator acconllnt to Iw University schedule Me may be pieced Monday-HteyS am Spm our oAca at 540 Baxwr St or cad 433-301 1 and merge •to you MaatorCM VBA. or American Express Praeeymsni a isquaad Ads can *ao be toad* tom to 433-3033 or 4-ntotod lo dseWStdsarindb com Classifieds Rates & Information RttiSafMt r.Trrr.rriTTr.r-.r ?rr?f.wr.T. PRIVATE PARTY RATE (Applies (o individual person only) (0-25 words) lu Dey/SUp days. 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