Pacha Massive Has It

I’ve had Pacha Massives’s first record, All Good Things, on replay since
it came out in 2007. Since then, the Bronx-based collective has taken their
laidback grooves to venues all over the world—from Boston to Bogotá and
beyond—and recorded a sophomore album that I plan to play over and over again.
It’s called If You Want It (out Sept. 22) and it features Dominican-born
founder and producer Ramon Nova singing along with a bevy of roaming female
vocalists, including Zigmat’s Monica Rodriguez, who guests on the title track
“If You Want It,” and Mexican songstress Sara Valenzuela, who amps up the sexy
quotient on the dreamy soundscape “Thinking About You.”

All 12
bilingual tracks are easy on the ears and, though most of them are made for
chilling, they’re all infused with a seamless mix of dub, electronica, cumbia,
palo and other Latin rhythms (listen to “For A While”) that may have you inching
your way to the dance floor. “It’s easy to feel like a global citizen in the
capital of the world, that crosses right into our music,” says Nova about New
York as inspiration, “When it comes to experimenting with sounds and ideas, I
feel a sort of freedom that you don’t have to be tied down to any style or any
label, anything goes; traditional and non traditional, roots or
progressive.”

Check out “If You Want It” and let me know what you
think: