It’s a hard fact to face, but while the end of summer doesn’t officially get here for another two weeks, this, the week before Labor Day and the rush back to everything we usually do, is the last week.

So let’s not waste the feeling. For the late summer, here’s a very groovy dose of new music. Well, actually old music.

The song “Vehicle” was a 1970 one-hit wonder for the band The Ides of March.

But shortly after it was a hit, the tune was re-imagined in Cuba by Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna.

This is one of the gems in the just released second volume of the ear-popping compilation “Si Para Usted.”

You suddenly realize that The Ides of March were as influenced by latin rhythms as the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna was influenced by what was happening on Miami radio stations.

That doesn’t mean that hip Cuban musicians looking to establish their own early 70s psychedelic scene completely abandoned their Afro-Cuban roots.

Case in point: the 1929 Cuban slow dance number “Siboney” had been recorded countless times by various musicians. Also in 1929, bandleader Eddy Gaytan was born. And when the 70s hit, Gaytan was arranging for a band called Los Llamas, the llamas.

And he went back to “Siboney.” But you’ve never heard it like this: classic Cuban bolero meets the trippy wah-wah vibe of ? Mark and the Mysterians.

When the first volume of “Si Para Usted” came out two years ago, pscyhedelic mambo was a mind-boggling discovery for me, opening up a world of Cuban music that had been sealed off for years by the economic embargo.

It also made my top ten list that year. Volume two pulls off the same trick. The disk is titled “Si Para Usted Volume 2.”