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Songs We Love: Kinky, 'Charro Negro'

The Mexican genre-busters enlist mariachi singer Pepe Aguilar for a shadowy dance track that wants you to move while you meditate.
Pepe Aguilar (center) with the members of Kinky.

The song "Charro Negro" starts with a deep, dark, slow bounce that sounds like the beginnings of an atmospheric EDM track. Then spurting out of the shadowy synths come chopped into bits and reverberating amid the chorus like echoes ricocheting from the walls of a nightclub.

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