Hold onto your hats! Making their debut appearance on Cadenza, Cesar Merveille & Pablo Cahn-Speyer touch down like a cyclone, with two percussion-heavy cuts that pay homage to the glories of vintage mambo. Cesar has quickly made a name for himself with releases on Circus Company, Serialism, Safari Electronique and others, with his �Chocopop Jazz"�released under the name Cesar Maravillas�making a huge splash in 2008. This is Pablo�s first release, but the London-based pair is already well known for residencies at T-Bar, where their colorful, upbeat sets provide a soundtrack perfectly calibrated for the feel-good hedonism of some of London�s most celebrated parties. �Tribute,� already known to clubbers as a highlight of Luciano�s recent sets, is a killer fusion of old and new, splicing vintage samples from golden-age salsa into a stomping groove that�s as chunky as a pair of high-heeled wedges. It all starts out as a stripped-down, highstepping drum track, punctuated by sexy, primal whoops. But that ain�t the half of it. In come spooky flutes, fluttering sax and the rush of crowd noise, with an irresistibly funky jazz break building tension. Before long, the bandleader�s calling out the dance, chanting and singing. Horns are blaring, piano pumping, congas rolling. It�s a veritable hurricane of African, Caribbean and European musical traditions, and anything that isn�t tied down will soon be soaring above the dancefloor. �La Yuca� is a far more subdued affair, laying down a nimble, gliding groove with just the slightest hint of disco to it. Layers of additional percussion�syncopated toms, splash cymbals, chirping congas�give the track a powerful sense of swing; a lone, repeated chord sets the atmosphere, expanding like a giant soap bubble. Assuming center stage is a haunting male vocal sung in Spanish�weathered, gritty, and emotionally ambiguous in that particularly Latin-American way. It�s not a �happy� or �sad� song, it�s storm cloud and silver lining all tangled up