Gaitas music, for flutes and alegre, llamador and tambora drums.

Festive folk music from the country’s Caribbean region, with four basic forms — the son, paseo, merengue and puya — played with three traditional instruments: the caja vallenata drum, wooden guacharaca scraper, and three-line, German-style button accordion. Here are some of its most celebrated performers, including Francisco ‘Pacho’ Rada, Nicolas ‘Colacho’ Mendoza and Victor Camarillo.

Tear-up cumbias from this mighty label’s treasure-rooms, handsomely sleeved.

The darkest and most amazing of Rafael Machuca’s productions — dubbed ‘the B-Movies of Colombian music’ for their proliferation of ad hoc lineups and crazy artwork — fusing local and African rhythms with the swirling organs and psychedelic guitars of underground rock, at the birth of Champeta.

A compilation inspired by the fabulous sound-system, record-collecting culture of the northern cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla, where ricocheting champeta, highlife, soukous, mbaqanga, zouk, soca, and cumbia blare through stacks of hand-painted speakers, in street-corner, neighbourhood bailes.