Live percussion. Instant dance floor energy.

A good percentage, but definitely not on all songs. They groove in the pocket with the DJ for the length of the dance set, drop in a fill where there's room and sit out anything that doesn't call for drums. If the DJ slows it down for a ballad, they step back and let it play.

Anything with a beat under it: Top 40 and house, hip hop, reggaeton and anything with Latin flavor, plus Motown, disco and funk. Pitbull one minute, Bad Bunny the next. Fast alternative rock is the exception. That's when they sit a song out.

Congas for the hand work, plus a timbale, a cowbell, a tambourine and a single cymbal. The kit is small on purpose. Percussion is there to add flavor on top of the record you already love, not to bury it.

Yes, intermittently. Percussion is usually booked for a two-hour dance set and they play most of the time, but they also let certain songs be enjoyed as is.

A guest wanders over to look at the drums, reaches out to touch them and gets waved behind the kit for a few bars. They can't play a note and nobody cares. The phones come out every time with the guests cheering them on. Total game changer.

Yes and that's the fullest sound we offer, short of a band. The percussion sets the groove while the sax covers the melodies and takes some solos. Sometimes the two of them trade riffs back and forth while the DJ anchors it.