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mexican producer camilo lara returns with the sophomore release from his mexican institute of sound project, ‘pinata’ – a feature album on the fat planet radio show a couple of weeks ago. drawing from the roots he laid down with his debut ‘mejico maxico’, lara expands his sights for an album that draws strength from a wide selection of latin influences and stirs them into a smart collection of original tunes. for lovers of the blossoming ‘neuvo cumbia’ sounds, there’s much to fall in love with on this release – an album that carefully amasses its central and south american roots, then fires them out of a enormous party cannon marked ‘dirty hip hop and fat electro’ at a thousand miles per hour. ‘pinata’ is an instantly enjoyable album that has gate-crashed the guest list for the fat planet ‘favourite records of 2007’.