ELIAS LA FUENTE - FANTASTICO

◈ ELIAS LA FUENTE. FANTASTICO. Opens with a cocky funk-salsa burst and it doesn't let up. The bassline struts, Rhodes shimmer, and then the 2-step shuffle locks in. Ghost rimshots, tabla accents cutting through the sub. This is that MJ Cole-era swing pushed somewhere warmer, wilder, and a little unhinged. Mid-track the groove gets polyrhythmic. Organ swells. Juke stabs land sideways. The dembow…