I've been walking around a couple of days with a rythm in my mind. I can hear the drums, and I can hear the bass, but I can also hear something different. Something that sets this song of from the rest. Something that gives it it's special flavour. I can hear a trumpet! Then all of a sudden I can hear something new, I can hear a saxophone playing. This seems familiar to me this sound. I've heard this before somewhere, but where and when? Now I remember!

A couple of years ago I was on a trip in southern Europe where I got to get to know a local dj who at the time was a part time dj, part time working at his fathers butchershop! Anyways, one night I got to hear this guy playing and that's where I heard this sound! I've never before heard something so simple yet so cool where the sound made the whole crowd dance.
Later the next morning I got to speak to this guy and asked him the name of the songs and who was behind all this, who was the artist that produced all this? I remember laughing because of the simple name which actually fits for the sound the artist produces in his songs, The Rumbar, perhaps as in rumba?

I looked up this artist and found out that it was a project between the two italian dj's, Marascia and Sandro Murru, who's also known as Kortezman. It was in 2002 that the two of them got together under the name The Rumbar and during a period of three years released a couple of songs that had that special rythm I was talking about earlier!
As "A Bailar Mi Gente" being their first release and a success which got licensed all over the world on labels like Emi and Virgin, they would go on to release two of my favourites, "El Timbal" which has that great saxophone in it, and "Puertorico" with that trumpet and fitting vocals! I'll always remember me dancing in that club with Puertorico playing on high volume! I won't ever forget that cute waitress that worked at the bar either! Enjoy people!

// Dirty South