Mira Como Baila – Bourbaki & Gavrilovich (reviewed by Darren Baker)

In the West especially, we get so used to club floor dance music having a particular sound and style that we forget about the rich cultural sonic that others might be mining. If your idea of nightclub floor fillers is beat-driven and euphoric yet full of cold and clinical musical elements, as much of it seems, then you need a song such as Mira Como Baila.

This takes on the lush Latin sound sees master composers, Bourbaki & Gavrilovich, come together to blend Cuban sass and dancefloor energy, the sound of the Old World dancehall being re-energized and re-imagined for the suave, uptown nightclub. It is both sensual and sophisticated in its use of more traditional elements and sassy and euphoric in channelling its digital energies through the music.

The result is the sound of traditions meeting the cutting edge, the sound of the past being brought bang up to date, the sound of exotic moves and addictive grooves being powered to even further heights by the clubland energy force, the sound of heady and hedonistic percussion adding heart and soul to the often soulless sound of the club.

Shouldn’t all dance music be made this way?