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How many kinds of dance music can you mash up into a single live set? Let us count the ways with UNDERGROUND SYSTEM. These neo-afrobeat deconstructionists borrow from funk, house, disco, and lean heavily into the Fela Kuti playbook with a kind of new American dance music that could only emerge from Brooklyn. The group has a near-legendary reputation for getting a room moving down there, so get ready to jump around and dance for this one. UNDERGROUND SYSTEM is fresh off a sensational appearance at Snarky Puppy’s Ground Up Festival and about to release their first full-length studio album this September. Domenica Fossati, the flautist and chanteuse fronting the group, says of their new style: “It’s a homage to New York, with all its different genres and influences.”

But wait, there’s more. LOCOBEACH is also coming up from Brooklyn with a sound unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. Cumbia pop meets Latin disco with a psychedelic, Spaghetti-Western edge. They blew so many people away when we presented them at this Summer’s World Music Collider down in the Pioneer Valley that we had to bring them back ASAP. Not to mention, we’ll also have DJ Bongohead from the Peace & Rhythm collective, spinning you his signature mix of funk and Latin cuts to keep you moving before and between sets.

So drink your vitamin water. Figure out what you’re wearing. And dig in deep and bring your serious boogie to this dance-heavy double-bill. Because it promises to be that one hot, sweaty late-summer Friday night dance-party that you’ll remember so fondly in the depths of Winter. $12/15. Children under 12 free.