If South America’s tropical paradise came attached to background music, Bomba Estéreo’s most recent album, “Elegancia Tropical,” would be the exotic setting’s soundtrack.

The album is loaded with acoustic instruments, sounds from nature and Spanish lyrics, but the album’s botanical vibe should mostly be accredited to the band’s vocalist, Simón Mejía.

In 2001, Mejía fashioned a solo music adventure by fusing two musical genres into one cohesive sound. Once her EP broke out, the public asked for more. And with the help of three new members, Bomba Estéreo’s brainchild has created the Colombian band’s shooting star — its album released on Tuesday.

The most shocking thing the album presents is the pounding jams of electronic music that pounce throughout the inspired sounds of Columbia’s most beloved style of music, Cumbia.

Cumbia originated in the coastal region of Columbia and offers a mash-up of sounds from Native Columbians, African slaves and European colonialists. Perhaps that’s why the waves of techno music work so well with this eclectic theme of music that urges one to get up and salsa. This type of music pushes its admirers and creators to accept sounds from cultures across the globe.

With Cumbia’s origin as a courtship dance between African slaves, it is no wonder the nature sounds of bird mating calls heard up and down the beaches of Columbia’s coastal region were incorporated into Mejía’s compilations on the record.

From bird sounds to rushing water, the album starts off on the right foot with the song, “Bosque.” With beating bongos, bird chirps and a sultry voice speaking the words of a well-known romantic language, “Elegancia Tropical” grabs the listener and takes them to a portal that opens up the much dreamed of tropical paradise — a paradise with piña coladas and other liquor-infused treats.

Once one has gulped down the delicious tastes of liquid courage, he or she will most likely feel the urge to jump up, throw flailing hands in the air and dance. Luckily, Bomba Estéreo thought ahead and whipped up some great grooves to boogie to.

My favorite melody is “Pure Love.” Being a techno junkie, it’s no wonder I love this song. With booming bass drops, English lyrics and echoing vocals, “Pure Love,” is an enthusiastic dance jam perfect for the fifth song on the album.

The 12th and last composition on “Elegancia Tropical,” “Pa’ Respirar,” offers the perfect ending to a tropical paradise soundtrack. The outerspace noises and ringing repetitions of electro music reminds the listener the album has offered a dreamed-up paradise that is not of reality nor Earth. Not to mention, the Rastafarian sounds and cool transitions would convince any music know-it-all Mejía has crafted music that could be found in its very own section of the record store — a musical genre she has dubbed “electro vacilón” or “electro tropical.”