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Nightlife
Best South American Import
Los Amigos Invisibles
Various locations
In
1994, in Caracas, Venezuela, Los Amigos Invisibles started
a “Super Sancocho Variety” party that took its name—and
eclectic musical aesthetic—from an anything-goes Venezuelan
stew of the same name. When the six-piece Latin funk band
moved to New York this January, it didn’t change its style:
The flyer for the first edition of its ever-evolving fête
advertises “house jazz funk disco bossa salsa merengue
easy listening acid jazz drum ’n’ bass.” In addition to
throwing the occasional party, Los Amigos—who used to
play 5,000-seaters in their home city—perform their rubbery
blend of disco, funk, and Latin music semiregularly at
clubs like the Bowery
Ballroom and the Village Underground. Those performances
are more like free-form dance parties, with an oddball
mix of record geeks and South American expats boogying
along to come-hither grooves that borrow Beck’s slyly
ironic sex appeal. “You know a party is great,” says vocalist
Julio Briceño, “when everyone’s kissing each other.”
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