UNIIQU3 & Dos Flakos - Shake The Room

  • Jersey club meets new-school Latin house.
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  • When New York Latin house peaked in the '90s, producers like Nervous Records affiliates Masters At Work and Armand Van Helden interlaced it with synth stabs and distinctive vocal samples that forged a new kind of ballroom music. The hybrid genre joined ballroom's sensual and punchy pulse with Latin house's deeply musical horn and percussion arrangements. Dos Flakos represent a new wave of Latin house, juggling heaving drums, ballroom motifs and energetic vocals. "Shake The Room," featuring Jersey Club royalty UNIIQU3, shows the malleability of the Dos Flakos Latin house sound—peppered with Heldenesque "whoop" vocals, stuttering drums and a big room bassline, UNIIQU3's domineering flow still ties it back to contemporary club music.
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