When Los Angeles-based Latin roots-rock combo Los Lobos collaborated with enigmatic producer/engineers Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake on the 1992 album KIKO, listeners were given a window into the band’s previously-unknown experimental side. The Latin Playboys emerged when Froom and Blake teamed with Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo and Louie Perez to take KIKO’s sonic explorations to their logical extreme. Sometimes sounding like an acid-induced dream, the Latin Playboys’ music often dispenses with traditional song forms in favor or impressionistic pieces that make wild shifts between genre and mood. Though the group’s albums are still, like Los Lobos’ work, based in country, blues, rock & roll, and Mexican music, the discs filter these traditional sounds through a much stranger, artier lens.