Further evidence of rock’s road trip in the late ‘60s/early ‘70s. Countless international acts mimicked Anglo-American bands, but the best, like those featured here, created hybrids out of local styles. Cumbia’s trademark lope – a more syncopated variation of Jamaican rocksteady – gets wrapped in wah-wah guitar and squealing synths. “Para Elisa” is Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” remade as a Latin surf-guitar jam.

By Will Hermes