Fantasma- Fantasma City
Think ? and the Mysterians meets Doug Smith's Texas Tornadoes go way beyond the Tex-Mex ratlands all the way to Argentina, season with chamame, cumbia villera from the Buenos Aires slums and finally, add contempo electronic and psychedelica to the stew and you get Fantasma- not to be confused with Grupo Fantasma. According to DJ Juan at HardData.com they are "Argentina's neo-cumbia pioneers."
Fantasma make bouncing, buoyant, infinitely danceable music that also has both humor and a socially relevant aspect to it. Sure to draw some attention is a sci fi, Kraftwerked cumbia version of "Ghost Town" by The Specials, a wickedly great re-imagining of one of the signature songs of the 1980s. Blurt