Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band

The Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band is a German instrumental deep funk recording collective who are often called the "world's greatest cover band." Their spacy, infectiously danceable sound signature revolves around the Trinidadian and Tobagonian steel pan drum. Used alongside conventional instrumentation, the steel pan creates a nearly vocal character alongside its rhythmic identity. Largely anonymous, their 2007 debut single on Mocambo Records offered two Meters' covers, "Look-A-Py-Py" and "Ease Back," that drew global notice, as did their 2008 cover of 50 Cent's "P.I.M.P.," infus...