Colombian electro-pop band Bomba Estereo is full of explosive contrasts. The band works with loops and live instrumentation, and fuses distinctly Latin music genres with rock and pop, all blown up into a 21st century multi-cultural dancefloor-ready sound. This is all pretty well conveyed in the band’s name – “bomba” being a bomb (though it’s also a form of Puerto Rican music) – and the title of its most recent album, Blow Up. The key contrast comes from the group’s two principle members. Singer Liliana Saumet is credited with bringing the sound of the Colombian Cumbia to the group, while producer and multi-instrumentalist Simon Mejia’s expertise is in big bass and modern electronic productions. The result is high-energy music with a ground-shaking sense of rhythm and Saumet’s perky, chirpy vocals dancing around busy songs.

The band has updated an already club-ready classic with “Pump Up the Jam.” Bomba Estereo’s explosive bi-lingual version – retagged “Ponte Bomb” – pulls the European dance staple into South America with big thumping bass. The song was originally waxed by Technotronic, a curious and mysterious ’80s pop ensemble led by American-born Belgian DJ Jo Bogaert, who teamed with vocalist Ya Kid K. The song was a smash in Europe before finding its way to the States with a striking video that created a bit of confusion about the band’s identity, as an African model named Felly was shown lip-syncing the entire thing. The mystery did nothing to diminish the song’s popularity: “Pump Up the Jam” was a No. 2 hit in the U.S. in 1989 and has been a dancefloor staple since, though it now has a bombastic Spanish-language counterpart competing for time.