3BallMTY bring tribal guarachero to Kemistry next Friday

The Monterrey trio that put "Inténtalo" at No. 1 play Fort Lauderdale's house-music club on Friday, Nov. 6, a 10 p.m. start for a long night.

There's a particular kind of Friday night that only starts at 10, and 3BallMTY are built for it. The Monterrey producers play Kemistry on Friday, Nov. 6, with the night getting going at 10 p.m. Tickets are on DICE, starting around $26, and the show is 18+.

It's the first time we've had 3BallMTY on the books in Fort Lauderdale, and they arrive in the middle of a busy fall. Brooklyn gets them the night before, on Nov. 5, after stops in Houston, Oklahoma City and Atlanta; after South Florida the run heads to the Rio Grande Valley on Nov. 14 and to Pomona, California, on Nov. 18, where The Glass House has them billed for a "Sin Permiso Sessions" night.

If the name rings a bell but you can't place it, the song probably will. 3BallMTY formed in Monterrey in 2009, made up of DJs and producers Erick Rincón, Sergio Zavala and Alberto Presenda, and they became the face of tribal guarachero, the sound that welds Mexican cumbia and pre-Hispanic rhythms onto club-grade electronic production. "Inténtalo," the title track of their debut album, went to No. 1 on Billboard's Latin Songs chart, and it still detonates a room the moment that horn line hits.

They haven't been coasting on it. This summer the group launched its Club Conexión Tour, which kicked off with a sold-out night in Los Angeles in June and was later expanded to Europe. New music has kept coming too: "Chicas Tribaleras" landed in May, and "Préndelo," a collaboration with 2Deep and Alex Favela, followed. Expect the set to move between the new material and the songs that made them, all of it pitched at people who came to dance rather than watch.

The song probably will ring a bell, and that horn line still detonates a room.

Kemistry is the right kind of place for that. The club sits at 307 SW 2nd Street, in the old #00 Saloon space downtown, and it has made its name as a house-music room: an upper balcony to watch from, a disco ball hanging over the middle of the floor, and a listed capacity of about 3,000. Its calendar leans hard toward DJs and dance music, which makes a tribal guarachero headliner a natural fit rather than a stretch.

A few practical notes. A 10 p.m. start means a late night, so plan the ride home before you go. DICE tickets live in the app and are tied to your phone, so download it ahead of time rather than in line on SW 2nd. If you're bringing a group and want a table, Kemistry takes reservations directly.

Fort Lauderdale's dance crowd doesn't always get its Latin club acts at full size; plenty of them stop in Miami and keep going. This one stops here. Put on "Inténtalo" Friday afternoon to warm up, and find out what it sounds like on a system built for it.

Sources: 3BallMTY, 6th Nov, Kemistry Fort Lauderdale (DICE) (dice.fm); Kemistry venue page (DICE) (dice.fm); 3BALLMTY 'Sin Permiso Sessions', The Glass House Pomona (DICE) (dice.fm); 3Ball MTY (Wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org); El Club Conexión Tour kicks off strong: 3BallMTY sold out in Los Angeles (Latin Power Music) (latinpowermusic.com.mx); Kemistry Nightclub (kemistrynightclub.com); New Nightclub Coming to Ft. Lauderdale (What Now Miami) (whatnow.com); Best Nightclubs in Fort Lauderdale (Miami New Times) (miaminewtimes.com)