Latin Explosion
August 08 2025 03:00PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
Hosted by Juan Montenegro of Pacifica Affiliate WSLR 96.5FM Sarasota.
The original LATIN EXPLOSION radio show (1972-1982) goes back to Chicago at the peak of the Salsa music explosion! First launched as a midnight show seven days a week on WEDC 12.40AM, the program's last years were on another Chicago station, WOJO FM 105.1 weekday afternoons and finally late night.
Incredibly, we were able to get LATIN EXPLOSION on the air again after moving to Sarasota. In June 2018 LATIN EXPLOSION launched as a two hour show Friday mornings 7-9AM Thank you, WSLR 96.5FM Sarasota Community Radio and Sarasota music fans!
Big thanks to the listeners, music lovers and supporters across North America that tune in week after week to hear the best in 20th Century Salsa, Latin Jazz and Afro-Cuban music!
Playlist
| Time | Artwork | Artist | Song | Album | Label | Year |
| 3:00PM | Eddie Palmieri | Revolt/La Libertad Logico | Vamonos Pal' Monte | Fania | 2019 | |
| 3:06PM | Tito Puente & His Orchestra | Dance Mania | Dance Mania (Legacy Edition) | SME | 2004 | |
| 3:09PM | Tito Puente | Plaza Stomp | Combo Latino | Fania | 2019 | |
| 3:14PM | Tito Puente | El Cayuco | Mambo y Cha Cha Cha [Remastered] | Classics Works Recordings | 2020 | |
| 3:16PM | Tito Puente | Tiny Not Ghengis | Puente Goes Jazz (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks, 1956) | RCA Bluebird | 1999 | |
| 3:22PM | Tito Puente | What Are You Doing, Honey | Puente Goes Jazz | Vintage Recordings | 2021 | |
| 3:25PM | Tito Puente | Night Beat | Night Beat (featuring Doc Severinsen, Gene Quill, Barry Galbraith & Jimmy Cobb) | Moon Beams Records | 2013 | |
| 3:28PM | Tito Puente & His Orchestra | Cuál Es La Idea (What's the Idea) | Dance Mania (Legacy Edition) | SME | 2012 | |
| 3:32PM | Tito Puente & His Orchestra | Night Ritual | Night Beat | SME | 2012 | |
| 3:41PM | Tito Puente & His Orchestra | Pa' Los Rumberos | Cuban Carnival | National Own | 2002 | |
| 3:44PM | Tito Puente | Que bueno baila usted (Album Version) | Homenaje A Beny | SME | 2001 | |
| 3:50PM | Tito Puente | Azúcar Pa' un Amargao | Ce' Magnifique | Tico | 1981 | |
| 3:54PM | Tito Puente | Preparate Para Banarte | Tito Puente And His Concert Orchestra | Fania | 2019 | |
| 3:56PM | Tito Puente | Niña Y Señora | NYC Salsa: The Incendiary Sound Of Latin New York | Fania Records | 2019 | |
| 3:58PM | Trudy Pitts Trio | Mean Perspective - live | Live at the Great American Music Hall | Doodlin' Records | 2009 | |
| 3:58PM | Tito Puente | Niña Y Señora | NYC Salsa: The Incendiary Sound Of Latin New York | Fania Records | 2019 | |
| 4:05PM | Tito Puente | Mambo Diablo | Mambo Diablo | Concord Picante | 2020 | |
| 4:21PM | Tito Puente | El Rey Del Timbal | Tito Puente And His Concert Orchestra | Fania | 2019 | |
| 4:24PM | Tito Puente & His Orchestra | Guaguanco Margarita | Fiesta Con Puente | BCD/3RDP | 2016 | |
| 4:27PM | Tito Puente | Dolor Y Perdón | Homenaje a Beny | Fania | 2020 | |
| 4:30PM | Tito Puente & His Orchestra | Black Brothers | Tito Puente And His Concert Orchestra | Fania Records | 2019 | |
| 4:35PM | Tito Puente | Bonito Y Sabroso | More Mambo On Broadway | SME | 2001 | |
| 4:39PM | Tito Puente & His Orchestra | Yambeque (Mambo Yambu) | Dance Mania (Legacy Edition) | SME | 2012 | |
| 4:42PM | Tito Puente | Negro De Socieddad | More Mambo On Broadway | West Wind | 2015 | |
| 4:53PM | Tito Puente | Para Los Rumberos | Que Viva La Salsa | Fania | 2019 | |
| 4:57PM | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Almost Like Praying (feat. Artists for Puerto Rico) | Almost Like Praying (feat. Artists for Puerto Rico) | Atlantic Records | 2018 | |
| 4:58PM | Tia Fuller | Katrina's Lullaby | Healing Space | Mack Avenue Records | 2007 |
