Uproot Andy, left, and Geko Jones at a Que Bajo party.

Uproot Andy could only be seen onstage for a total of maybe three minutes once he took control of the decks on Saturday at the Xango! party at 3rd Ward, because dancers immediately flooded the stage, obscuring him for at least the next hour. Geko Jones, his partner in Que Bajo?!, was busy playing at Surreal Estate, another Bushwick venue, that night, but would close out Xango!, playing well into daylight hours until 8:30 a.m. Excitement and demand like this seems to follow them around. The pair’s blend of Afro-Latin music and electronic bass styles has earned them a worldwide reputation for throwing a good party with forward thinking music.

The two are being flown around the world to DJ, their remixes storm the interwebs, and they’ve inspired a number of DJs to push a similar sound in New York. And after packing Santos Party House in Manhattan during the February blizzard, the club has asked them to throw a weekly party there. But the growing attention and accolades they currently receive is a welcome progression from their humble beginnings throwing a sparsely attended weekly event at a small venue in Williamsburg. In fact, the night of their first party, Obama won the election and everyone was outside partying in the streets. “We got stuck inside,” laughs Andy.

“When we started, it felt like a struggle to even describe the music we were playing,” recalls Geko. “We were even nervous about calling it Latin because that means a very specific thing to so many people.” Although Que Bajo?! is the first of its kind in New York, there are similar parties that started before them in other parts of the country. San Francisco has Tormenta Tropical, which is thrown by Bersa Discos, a label that Andy is signed to. And in Austin there’s a popular night called Peligrosa.

The two met when Geko was handing out flyers for a New York Tropical party being thrown by Dutty Artz, a label and collective he co-founded. “I looked at the flyer and was like, ‘Oh, I like cumbia, too!’ And it just went from there.”

One area Geko would like to explore for Que Bajo?! — which, when translated, can mean any number of things — is to throw more outdoor events, like at soccer games, for instance. “I’d like to take our music to regular Latino New Yorkers,” he says.

And if they can keep growing, they’d also like to spread the love to the areas from where their music is derived. “I’m influenced by the music of South America and by getting flown down there to play, but it doesn’t go the other way,” Andy explains. “What we want to do if we can become financially successful, is to bring over artists from Latin America who don’t get any shine here. Hopefully the attention we’re getting will lead us to being able to bring these kids to the U.S.”

If you want to see them play, next week’s party at Santos would be a good place to start since it’s Cinco De Mayo.

Uproot Andy and Geko Jones — “Manuelita Remix”