Chicha Libre’s new album, Canibalismo, is an instrumental mix of Peruvian, funk-filled electric beats that, after a margarita and a few shots of Patron, will have you dancing wildly around the room.

The Brooklyn-based collective specializes in psychedelic, Latin rhythms on their second album, available now via Barbes Records. The band's members, an eclectic mix of ethnicities: natives of Venezuela, Mexico, America, and France round out this international sensation.

Canibalismo takes its inspiration from Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, author of a 1928 essay about how cultures "cannibalize" one another. The new album, out May 8th has a deeply trippy and delightfully danceable sound with roots in Colombian two-step, Cumbia.

The band's name 'chicha' also refers to a Latin American liquor that could also be used as a metaphor of their unique sound. Various ingredients are mixed and left to absorb each other; mingling to create something familiar and yet new.

The first single on the album, 'La Plata (en Mi Carrito de Lata)' brings you into their world of funky, South American pop that continues through to its completion. And if you've ever wanted to hear a Cumbia-inspired cover of 'Ride of the Valkyries', here's your big chance.

Chicha Libre will bring its international dance party on a worldwide tour that includes stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Bogota, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Moscow, and New York on May 19th, so if you're in the area make sure to check out what is sure to be a grand fiesta.

Words by Brittany Norvell

TheWaster.com | Bailamos 05.17.2012