Bomba Estéreo Drops Ponte Bomb

Our favorite electro-tropical provocateurs Bomba Estéreo are at work on a new full-length album to be released later this year, and we’re waiting patiently. After 2009′s Blow Up, can you blame us?

Luckily, the duo Li Saumet and Simon Mejia have sent us a steaming hot EP to let us know they haven’t forgotten about us. The Ponte Bomb EP includes four remixes of Bomba’s hit off Blow Up “Fuego” and two remixes of their single “La Boquilla.” You could fry an egg on any of them and for that we can thank electro tropicalists from fellow Colombians Pacha Massive to El Remolon. Pacha Massive is an especially good match for “Fuego,” but El Remolon drives the track to previously unimaginable heights of tropical dance floor insanity.

The real treat at the bottom of the box is Bomba Estéreo’s breathtakingly sexy cover of Technotronic’s 1989 eurodance hit “Pump Up The Jam.” They renamed the track “Ponte Bomb” and turned it into full-on electro-vacilon.

The group originally recorded the track for a Levi’s-sponsored cover songs project. They chose it because “Pump Up the Jam” was a big hit in Colombia. (Check out the behind the scenes video.) But they did the cover in such a way that I now no longer remember the Technotronic version. There is no “Pump Up the Jam” there is only “Ponte Bomb.”

Ponte Bomb
Bomba Estéreo
[Nacional Records; 2011]
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