
Austin's Money Chicha grew out of the city's Latin soul vanguard, drawing members from Grupo Fantasma and Brownout, but their own path has always tilted towards the hallucinatory edges of cumbia amazonica. This new chapter pushes that lineage further out, folding New Orleans' studio warmth into their mix of clipped guitars, vintage organ haze and rhythm patterns that seem to bend in mid-air. Their take on 'Cumbia Arabe' catches that spirit immediately, moving between ritual pulse and garage-leaning grit. Elsewhere the group lean into South Texas swagger and heavier Latin-funk phrasing, the percussion tightening as the synths loosen. Across the set, they sound less like revivalists and more like travellers, widening the map one track at a time.