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Timba

Cuba's dense, funk-and-jazz-charged answer to salsa, from the late 1980s.

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Timba pushed Cuban dance music into electric, harmonically adventurous territory — synths, electric bass, a drum kit under the congas and aggressive horns. NG La Banda and Los Van Van led it.

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