Guaguancó in "Volando Entre Tus Brazos"

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Yesterday, while dancing in our Sunday's social, I have noticed an interesting phenomenon in this song by Marc Anthony: It had two guaguancó patterns interleaved: The bass plays the puertorican style guaguacó, the one which is on the 3-side on the clave, while the congas play the cuban style guaguancó, on the 2-side of the clave.

It makes some sort of call-and-response pattern between the bass and the conga guaguancó, creating a nice effect. Are there any other Salsa songs with the phenomenon? Is this a common thing or something invented by Marc Anthony ?
 
Wow... I'm listening to the song and I gotta say that is really cool! I'm not a bassist (unless u count the keyboard lol) but I've never seen this before.

As for it being a common thing, I've heard a lot of salsa songs where the conguero uses guaguancó in what you called the Puerto Rican style, on the 3 side of the clave. However, in general, I don't hear much of the traditional Cuban style guaguancó in salsa because it would mean switching to rumba clave and it doesn't fit well into the tumbao / son montuno stuff. But Marc Antony has figured out how to do it, that's for sure! :)

Anyway I don't know of any other songs that do that, any1 else know?
 
OK, I know this post has been out for awhile but I was listening to a new CD I got and heard the same kind of call-and-response guaguancó at the beginning. The song is "Naci Para Servir" by artist Alex D'Castro. The album title is "En Acción" and it's awesome! Lots of beat =)
 
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