We take so many things for granted. Like the Spam Allstars. The local Latin funk jam outfit has been playing among us so often for so long, it’s easy to forget how damn good the band is. And like Cuban music. It’s everywhere, with more killer musicians arriving from the island seemingly everyday. So big deal, right?

Luckily Andrew Yeomanson, aka DJ Le Spam, doesn’t think so. Over the years, as Cuban musicians have sat in on the informal rumbas in between sets at Spam shows, he realized how much wondrous talent in traditional Cuban music is just wandering about Miami — or playing easy gigs in commercial dance bands. So he formed Rumberos de la 8 with monster resident rumberos like Sonia Feldman and former Clave y Guaguancó member Boris Monterecy and longtime Spammers like Tomas Díaz, Lázaro Alfonso, and Mercedes Abal.

Last Monday morning, Yeomanson invited Knight Arts over to his home studio for a cafecito and a listen to a few songs on a vintage reel-to-reel analog tape recorder. True to this mostly pure rumba project, Andrew recorded on tape and is now mixing the tracks digitally. Likewise, traditional tracks like “El Cisne Blanco” (The White Swan) mingle with new numbers like Feldman’s “Un Sueño Profundo” (A Deep Sleep) that mostly follow classic conventions, with a pop flourish here and there.

The musicians wouldn’t let Yeomanson get away with much. When Tomas Díaz, who often dazzles Spam fans with his improptu rumba riffs, got a little loose with a classic rumba rhythm on one track, Andrew says, the rest of the rumberos balked: “If they hear that in Cuba, they’ll think we don’t know what we’re doing.” So the producer had to fix it. Thank goodness for computers. Sometimes a little technology goes a long way to making a dancer feel like it’s a hundred years ago and she’s shaking her hips in the middle of a solar.

The Spam Allstars present a Tribute to Pérez Prado at the Rhythm Foundation fundraiser on Saturday, September 26 at Key Biscayne Beach Club, 685 Ocean Drive, Key Biscayne. $100 per person, includes dinner, open bar, and annual Rhythm Foundation membership. 305-672-5202. www.rhythmfoundation.com