Welcome to MULA’s Electro-Merengue Utopia

Welcome to MULA’s Electro-Merengue Utopia

In recent years, merengue has become Latin pop’s secret weapon. The Dominican Republic’s signature gallop has crept into global smashes from Bad Bunny and Karol G, heralding a revival of the genre’s swinging Eighties and Nineties heyday (though rarely crediting its century-old campesino roots.) Admittedly, the house that merengue built fell into disrepair in the new millennium, due to stubborn gatekeeping from industry stalwarts, as well as a …