We hosted a luau for 40+ people in our backyard and I was looking for some appropriate background music. I'm pretty fussy when it comes to details: for the music, I didn't want sleepy-time, lazy background music, which I found to be a common theme in my search for "island tropical" music. This Tahiti Kaina Party music was perfect. The songs were upbeat for the most part and very tropical. I can't remember if there were any instrumentals, but I think it was all vocals for the most part. I also purchased "Tahiti Dances" here on Amazon, which was mostly tropical percussion - I could just picture flame-throwing tiki dancers when I listened to the samples. Together, those two albums were perfect for our luau. It was a nice mix of tropical sounds with a definite upbeat party-twist.Just to note, I bought both of these island albums via Amazon's MP3 store. The checkout/installation process couldn't have been easier or friendlier. Within 1/2 hour I had both albums downloaded to my PC (I'm on DSL). You also get a free song when you install Amazon's MP3 downloader.