Usually the traffic between Anglo-American dance music and Latin rhythms is one-way. In Caracas, Venezuela's capital, however, the club scene has been incorporating disco, funk and house since the 1980s. Los Amigos Invisibles generate a sweaty and unremittingly cheerful fusion of dancefloor styles both homegrown and imported.

To its detriment, their third album drafts in New York's Masters at Work, the grand old men of dad-house, to man the production desk. Presumably enlisted to raise the band's profile among the dance set, the duo gloss too many tracks with a sheen of all-purpose, bar-friendly voguishness.

Ease Your Mind, an excessively slick bit of retro disco, makes you feel you should be drinking overpriced rum-based cocktails somewhere.

Still, the group's sense of fun is irrepressible. The jaunty, bobbing Majunche stops intermittently so that everyone can bellow out the title, and Superfucker recalls the humid Latin-funk explorations of the 1970s.

It's all perfect summer-in-the-city fare, even if the unrelenting 78 minutes is enough to exhaust anybody's Latin spirit.