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Alt.Latino Playlist: Where Cuban Funk, Latin Urban, And Dream Pop Rub Elbows

Once you hear La Doña's mujer-powered "femmeton," Cuba's Cimafunk and Junior Mesa's mellow moods, you'll be won over, too.
San Francisco's La Doña just announced her debut EP, <em>Algo Nuevo</em>, out February 12.

Listen to this playlist on Spotify or Apple Music.

This week, we offer an Alt.Latino Playlist first: both Stefanie Fernández and I wrote about the same song. We were knocked out by the deep grooves of the new single from Cuba's Cimafunk, so we weighed in on it from different spot on the dance floor.

W also introduce you to a new artist from the Latinx dream-pop movement as well as some ambient remix of an fave.

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