"Editors' pick! A rock solid old-school jazzy salsa-mambo project with Romero driving his timbales hard. Nice, deep dance grooves...highly recommended." -- Descarga.com

"The album smokes with different genres (bomba, descarga, mambo, etc.)...[They] will leave you gasping for air at the ferociousness of these musicians. Here Louie shows that he still has inventiveness and pepper in his playing. With this recording Mr. Romero proves two things: you are never too old to sound new, and East Coast musicians have nothing on the West Coast. This CD rocks!" -- SalsaPower.com

"Louie has reached a level of musicianship where he is now a state-of-the-art player...The dancers will be in salsa bliss with swinging tunes like 'Si Tu No, La Otra,' 'Tinguaro' and 'Yémbere.'" -- Latin Beat magazine

"Old-school Salsa lives in Louie Romero y su Grupo Mazacote's new CD... Its organic sound [is] the epitome of Salsa Dura." -- Salsa-Central