Personnel: Paul Taylor (trombone); Snowboy (percussion).

Audio Mixer: Joe Claussell.

Liner Note Author: Andrew Jervis.

Volume two in Ubiquity's fabulous merger of techno and timbale is hot enough to set the speaker fabric afire. 2000 has seen countless producers mining the Cuban/Latin/Brazilian/electronica interface. Ubiquity has had a buzz on this kind of thing for years. Armed with in-house contributors and a bevy of similarly minded souls selected from the electronica underground, the label presents another definitive collection for the rhumba-tronic set.

Jonah Sharp, here trading as Capries with fellow musician Gamall, lets go of his galactic guise as SpaceTime Continuum and comes down to Earth to zap the batteries of Afro-Cubanism with the electro-grounded "Inception." P'taah (Chris Brann, aka Wamdue Project) jettisons his tech-house rhythmic modes for some trippy atmospheres overlaid by charged '60s congas and a breezy, futuro-tropical feel. Throughout, NEW LATINAIRES 2 suggests what might have been had a misguided techno band forgotten all about Krautrock and taken up residence at the Copacabana.

CMJ (12/13/99, p.25) - "...wavers between high-energy salsa stormers, mid-tempo Latin smokers, and down-tempo mood elevators....will get your mind, soul and body in symbiotic gear."