Remix Time: MC Marcelly - Bonde Das Prostitutas (Bumps Twilight In Rio Mix)

The baile funk producers in Rio love all kinds of horror samples to create an intense atmosphere in the favela bailes. The western producers on the other hand usually tend to concentrat on the more percussive side of baile funk that prevails in Rio nowadays. However Bumps from the UK has picked up the terror na baile mood for his remix of MC Marcelly's Bonde Das Prostitutas and actually this one sounds a lot like some tunes in Rio 2004/2005. Sometimes you need a foreigner to take it back to the old school... (though I feel other vocals would suit the atmosphere of the track better)

MC Marcelly-Bonde das Prostitutas (Bumps-Twilight In Rio Mix) by Bumps

Mulher Melancia vs. MC Créu

This can probably happen only in a Brazil; Mulher Melancia (Watermelon Woman), the dancer with an enourmous ass who became famous of performing all 5 speeds of Dança do Créu on MC Créu's stage shows is actually become a bigger star than Créu himself. While the MC with the 2007/2008 biggest hit hasn't been able to follow up the success, Mulher Melancia (Andressa Soares is her real name by the way) is constantly gaining new admirerers of her "skills".

She launched her independent singing career in 2008 with Velocidade 6 just to top MC Créu and rose amongst the most wanted baile funk live acts in Brazil after posing naked on an extensive (64 pages!) photo shoot for Playboy Brazil in April 2008. Then Vice made a coverage of her in 2009 on their VBS TV in an episode entitled "The Biggest Ass In Brazil" and everything was set up for an international breakthough. Check out this clip of her in Paris.



And these are the both parts of the VBS episode.





And guess what comes after Velocidade 6? Well why, Velocidade 7 of course! And yes, I'll keep you posted when she'll reach the velocidade 8.

Remix Time: Leo Justi - Dunno Riddim (Kid Conga Remix Instrumental)

Leo Justi is a curious case; A son of a oboe/piano musican, back ground in rock bands and musical taste as varied as can be. A carioca from out side of the baile funk scene and maybe just because of that producing some of the most interesting baile funk influenced remixes I've come across for a while. Check out this Dunno Riddim for example; baile, bmore and other drum loops nicely twisted and turned into a future Ninja Tune type of riddim that works both for brain and feet. Download from 4Shared.

Leo Justi - Dunno Riddim (Kid Conga Remix Instrumental) by Leo Justi

Hat+Hoodie Favela Love Minimix

If you missed this baile funk 22 min minimix by Hat+Hoodie go grab it from soundcloud while you still can.

Favela Love (Minimix) by Hat+Hoodie

Tracklist:

1. Intro
2. DJ Amazing Clay feat. MC Gus - Deixa o Tamborzao Tocar
3. João Brasil - Dig Minigame (The Beatles X Montagem Minigame)
4. Sujinho & Cassiano - Sweet Dreams
5. EDU K feat. Deize Tigrona - Sex-O-Matic (DJ Edgar Baile Funk Mix)
6. Mr. Catra - Roubo Da Motinha
7. Crookers feat. Kid Cudi - Embrace The Martian (Seiji Booty Remix)
8. The Count & Sinden feat. MC Thiaguinho - Tamborzuda
9. Schlachthofbronx feat. MC Leka - Sai Safarda
10. Buraka Som Sistema feat. Deize Tigrona - Aqui Para Voces
11. Genghis Clan feat. Mr. Catra - Gathina
12. EDU K - Mexe Mexe

DJ Edgar live videos

DJ Edgar has been touring Europe for almost a month now and he's been rocking great shows, at least judging the video material on youtube.


Liege, Belgium 6.5.2009



Brussels, Belgium 30.5.2009

A great baile funk "ad"

Found this funny stop motion fake advertisment by Hardcoure. 100% orange juice and MPC toasts!

DJ Edgar at Low Up, Brussels.

DJ Edgar has been touring Europe for the whole November and enthusiastic comments have been coming from all over. Check out this video from the Low Up party at Brussels. Nice vibe at the crowd.



Edgar also got nicnamed "El Loco Sampleador" by the Low Up crew...

And on his tour Edgar also started a blog.

Baile funk with chôro and bossa nova

Baile funk is moving ever forward. We've already heard a lot of tunes and remixes incorporating samba and batucada elements with baile funk, but it's still a natural and expected mix. However combining baile funk with traditional 50's bossa nova or chôro sounds far more absurd. (Chôro is the classical, melancholic version of samba, that sounds more like portuguese fado then samba) And to understand the fully the abrusdity (at least on a brazilians mind) you have to understand that in Brazil also music is all about the social class. To make it simple baile funk is the music "by the poor, for the poor" as Daniel Haaksman puts it. And chôro and 50's bossa nova, maybe radical at the time, nowadays have the air of being the music your grandfather likes to listen. Elevator music they might be called by some. But certainly NOT something you'd go shake your ass on the dancefloor. And still, they are coming together. And the result is something very, very interesting.

Though this is only one of the ways baile funk is going, it is important in the brazilian context, hopefully bringing down some of the prejudism linked on baile funk in Rio.

And here are the news:

Sany Pitbull has teamed up with Tira Poeira, an awardwinning band playing traditional chôro with a touch of jazz enthusiastics. They've made together a version of the classic "O Morro Não Tem Vez" by Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes. The title translates "The hill doesn't have a chance" and I think this proves just the opposite.


Check out the video made by the Brazil's major TV channel, Globo, about the co-operation to get an idea of what it sounds like:



Sany Pitbull is going to be on fire on saturday at TIM festival in Rio, ending the whole festival as the last act. (TIM festival is pretty much the biggest and most respected music festival to occur in Rio; this year's line up includes Kanye West, Klaxons, Gogol Bordello & Switch amongst others) And Sany will invite Tira Poeira to do the track live on stage. Leandro HBL, the director of the film Favela On Blast, is also gonna be participating on the show with some visual art. I wish I could be there, but I can't. If you happen to be around Rio, don't miss this one!

The other super interesting project is of Daniel Haaksman, who got access to the bossa nova catalogue of Verve through Universal and to celebrate the 50th aniversary of bossa nova invited baile funk producers from Rio to do their own interpretations of some classic bossa tunes. I haven't heard any of it yet, but this sure sounds interesting as hell and as it's going on major distribution through Universal, it's gonna shake it up big time, also in Brazil. Read more about it from the Man Recorder.


According to the Man Recordings blog (they've been really spicing it up actively with some really nice stuff!) it should already be hitting the stores and there also a release party with DJ Edgar on November 4th at Bar Tausend in Berlin.

Check out Mr. Haaksman telling more about the project on youtube:


The tracklist sure looks interesting:

1. Sergio Mendes + Brasil 66 "Day Tripper - DJ Fú + DJ Dinho Remix"
2. Luiz Bonfá "Discussão - MC Gringo + DJ Bolão Remix"
3. Rosinha Da Valencia "Berimbau - DJ Nazz + Ernani Maldonado feat. Bani Silva Baile Funk Remix"
4. João Gilberto "Desafinado - DJ Nazz + Ernani Maldonado Remix"
5. Fernanda Meirelles "Barquinho - DJ Marrentinho Remix"
6. Luiz Bonfá "Embocada - DJ Dinho + DJ Fú Remix"
7. João Gilberto "Bim Bom - DJ Amazing Clay Funk Remix"
8. Tom Jobim "Agua De Beber - DJ Edgar Remix"
9. João Gilberto + Astrud Gilberto "Girl From Ipanema - DJ Nazz Funk MIx"
10. Klaus Doldinger "Insensatez - DJ Edgar Remix"
11. Rosinha De Valencia "Uma Noite - DJ Marrentinho Remix"
12. Rubens Bassini, Jorge Arena + Chico Bater "Macumba - DJ Dinho + DJ Fú Remix"

Favela On Blast premiere tomorrow.

It's finally out!


The much antecipated baile funk documentary Favela On Blast by Leandro HBL & Wesley "Diplo" Pentz is gonna have it's premiere tomorrow (3.10.) at the traditional Cine Odeon in Rio. So if you happen to be in Rio, don't miss this one... Even though I haven't any more then small snippets of the material, I have to say congratulations! I hope this is gonna break baile funk all around the world BIG TIME.


And of course there is an after party with a heavy line-up.

Two tracks from MC Gi

DJ Edgar sent me some tracks he had produced lately for a new female MC from Santos (a coastal city in the São Paulo state). And I have to say these ones are pretty original; baile funk with some nice oriental flavours!

Giovanna Avino aka MC Gi is an architecture student who's only 18. On the track "Origami" she goes to Japan and sings on how you should eat her sushi, throw her on tatami and flod her like an origami... "Quer Romance" however is pure putaría: "Se o jantar é à luz de velas, meu prato é frango assado." (If you wanna have a candle light dinner, my servings gonna be roast chicken.) The production is refreshing, pure gold as Edgar always!

MC Gi: Origami download from zShare

MC Gi: Quer Romance download from zShare

And the tracks are 320kps mp3s as from now on Rio Baile Funk is gonna get out of the low quality mp3s everybody plays...

If you can read portuguese, check out this interview of MC Gi on Revista Grito.

Updates in the baile funk dictionary

Again I've done quite a few updates on my baile funk dictionary. I've started to cover also some expressions that don't necessarily have much to do with baile funk, but that are difficult to understand for foreigners. So get you portuguese going and if you have any words or expressions you don't understand, just them to me and I'll help out and then post them also to the dictionary.

Xão Productions - Aniversário Mixtape vol.1

It seems like New York has a very active baile funk scene. There's the Nossa crew that keeps bringing out great mixes (just featured Cassiano's Favela Clash) and there the Xão Productions that now celebrates its birthday with a great mix full of cool baile funk blends and remixes. They've been lately doing some cooperation with MC Gringo and played alongside with him in Rio at last year's TIM festival and Gringo has also been over to NYC to do some gigs with them. All together it seems like there are a lotta baile funk parties in NYC coming up by both Nossa and Xão. It seems like I need to go there to check it out!

DJ Comrade - Xão Productions Aniversário Mixtape Vol.1 (download from zShare)

Tracklist:

1. Dennis DJ
2. Mc Gringo Fucky Fucky – (Dennis DJ)
3. Mc Rael – Ai Meu Peru (Dj Gordinho)
4. Mc Maiquinho – Ela Quis Me Imitar (DJ Amazing Clay)
5. Mc Dandao - vai para puta que o pariu (DJ Amazing Clay)
6. Solta Essa Porra!!! (Dj Edgar)
7. Espanca – (DJ Edgar)
8. International Syle Remix feat. Mc Maiquinho e Mc Gus (DJ Comrade vs. Shaka)
9. Sai Fora Remix – Mc Gi (Art Punk)
10. Mc Gringo feat. Ninna – Gringo Vai Embora (DJ Amazing Clay)
11. Aquimenceto do Sambinha – (DJ Amazing Clay)
12. Movado –Phone Call REMIX (Chaach)
13. Coolie / Kopa Baile – Various Artists (DJ Comrade)
14. Zuzuka/ 77Klash – Brooklyn Ghetto Fabulosa (Chaach)
15. Funk Rida feat. Mc Maiquinho, Ousados e Mc Creu (DJ Comrade)
16. Arrastao remix feat. Dead Prez / Mc Gringo (DJ Comrade)
17. Feliz Anniversario (Sexual Eruption) feat. Predadorez/ Snoop Dogg (DJ Comrade)
18. Mc Maiquinho - É a ponto 30 aqui o morro da Chatuba (Proibidao)
19. Busy Signal – Step Out Remix (DJ Comrade)
20. GG – Cocktail Molotov (DJ Junior)
21. GG – Eles Tentam da Desfalque

Zombie Disco Squad - Baile Funks Not Dead

This has been around since June, but still have to lift it up: Zombie Disco Squad from London heats it up with a good selection of old and new baile funk served with fluent mixing.

Zombie Disco Squad - Baile Funks Not Dead (download from zShare)

1. Baile Funks Not Dead Introduction by Edu K
2. MC Seu Kuke - A Casa Do Seu Kuke
3. Bola De Fogo - Atoladinha (Enterradinha)
4. Os Hawaianos - Vem Kikando
5. Luciano DJ - Alter Baile
6. Carlinho e Celinho - Jogo do Bicho
7. SD Boys - Uh!Uh!Uh! Tá Tomando
8. MC Frank - Cabelo Encolheu
9. Tati Quebra Barraco - Boladona
10. Dennis DJ - Xacoalhado de Skol
11. MC Primo - Diretoria
12. Scottie B ft. Moleque Bil - Mais Ela
13. MC Biruleyby - Cria Asa Periquita
14. Jack e Chocolate - Dança do México
15. Amandinha - Essa é pra Virar
16. Edu K ft. Deize - Injeção TNT
17. Bonde Do Popo - ?
18. DJ Wally - Dança do Calango
19. DJ Luciano Oliveira - Funk Carioca
20. Montagem - Tá Mancando
21. Sandrinho - Organ Donor
22. Montagem - Black Box
23. Sandrinho - Yazoo
24. MC Pé de Pano e Rael - Ela Tá Doida
25. MC Cidinho e Doca - Rap da Felicidade
26. MC Camita - Mexe Com Meu Marido
27. Bonde do Come Quieto - Ela Balança Mas Não Para
28. Gaiola das Popozudas - Late Que Eu Tô Passando
29. Bonde do Tigrão - O Baile Todo
30. Os Carrascos e Bonde do Vinho - Três Tenores
31. Tati Quebra Barraco - Mirante
32. Gilberto DJ - Chumbo Quente

Super Classics Of Funk Carioca at Otra Luna

A fellow finnish player, Teemu, substituting me at Rio de Janeiro at the moment (as it's been already one and half years since I came back to Helsinki from Rio...) is doing a wonderful job with his in-depth, thoughtful posts on baile funk and favela life at his blog Otra Luna. The whole blog is full of good read, but he's also got this "Super Classics Of Funk Carioca" series where he presents some of the old school tunes. Have a read on what "Rap da Felicidade" by Cidinho & Doca, "Boladona" by Tati Quebra-Barraco and "Rap das Armas" by Junior & Leonardo are all about. And there's mp3 download too...

Keep up the great work Teemu!

Diplo interview by Maga Bo

The all around world beats specialist Maga Bo, who's based in Rio, has finally finished the series of his "3 white men in baile funk" mini documentary series and the last one's obviously with Diplo. He's chatting away about he's beginnings in Rio and about becoming a DJ and about collaborating with different artists around the world. Sany Pitbull and his manager Adriana Pittigliani (RIP) are also featured when they're checking out some scenes from the forthcoming baile funk documentary "Favela On Blast" (see the previews) by a brazilian film director Leandro HBL and Diplo.

DJ Edgar – Another tour in Europe and a brand new mix up.

DJ Edgar, "the gentle giant", is coming to Europe for another tour in November. The booking period is 31.10-4.12. (All you party promoters, get the contacts here...)


To promote his tour Edgar put together this mix that features only and exclusively his own remixes. So many classics get a baile treatment here, but my favourite must be "The Power" recycling Snap's anthem "I've Got The Power".

DJ Edgar: Mixtape 2008-2009 (download from zShare)

Tracklist:

1. Abertura
2. Funknotronic
3. Boogie Down Beat
4. Samba com Funk
5. Explosão mix
6. Guns'n'Funk
7. I Can't Get No
8. Na Europa eh Assim oh
9. Prostituto, o Sonho Delas
10. Alegria
11. Salsa com Funk
12. We Will Rock-Funk U
13. The Power
14. Out of Space
15. Boxe vs Axel F.
16. Nirvana in 'Funk' Concert
17. Rock'n'Funk beat
18. Gaita mix
19. I Fly With Funk 'U
20. DJ Edgar, Aplica o Som
21. Sininho mix
22. Solta Esse Ponto
23. Link Funk Park mix
24. Psiu-Psiu

Chack out also his homepage for some downloads...

Cassiano - Favela Clash (a mix for your listening pleasure...)

Sorry folks. I've so busy with work this summer that I haven't even had time to update my blog. I've got so many mixes lining up just waiting for your ears... But to recompensate I promise now I'll start to post also baile funk tracks for you to download. I know ya'll need to fuel for your DJ sets and party warming home session. But first I'll start with a DJ mix that Cassiano from NYC based Nossa crew hit on my inbox. It's a nice mix full of blends and remixes. Baile funk flirting with fidget house. If you're around NYC, catch up Cassiano at the Favela Clash release party on 30th of August at Santos.

Cassiano: Favela Clash (Download from zShare)

Man Recordings Melt Festival Mix by DJ Beware

All you baile enthusiastics in Germany have a treat coming up, since on the 19th of July Man Recordings presents a special line-up at the Melt Festival. Crookers, Bonde Do Role, The Count & Sinden (live), Edu K, MC Gringo, Daniel Haaksman, Deize Tigrona, DJ Beware and Say Hooo! are hitting the same stage on the same evening. Dope shit I'd say, and so does the festival as it coins the whole around-the-world-dance-beats-thing under a term "global dope".

For us, who can't join the party in Germany, there's luckily some dope shit to have a privite party on our headphones. DJ Beware has prepared a special mix in honour of the forthcoming festival and it's superdooooope. I know a couple of cars that'll go BOOM..!

Man Recordings Melt festival Mix by DJ Beware

Tracklist:

1. Intro
2. DJ Edgar "Boxe vs. Axel F"
3. Veronica Costa vs. Switch vs. Fatboy Slim "Dece Glamourosa Champion Sound - Edu K Mashup"
4. Daniel Haaksman feat. SD Boys "Parolar De Veso"
5. Crookers "Il Brutto"
6. Mark Ronson "Valerie - Count + Sinden Mix vs. DJ Conhecido - Edu K Mashup"
7. Stereotyp feat. Edu K + Joyce Muniz "Jeçe Valadão - Rob B/Stereo MCs Edit"
8. Buraka Som Sistema "Yah - Count+Sinden Remix"
9. DJ Sandrinho "Yazoo Medley"
10. Crookers "Lollypop/Crookers "Sveglia - Oh Snap Remix"
11. DJ Beware + MC Gringo "Tamborzão Con Scratchy"
12. Skream "Midnight Request Line Remix - Scottie B Remix"
13. Deize Tigrona "Injeção"
14. Bonde Do Role "Marina Gasolina Remix Buraka Som Sistema Dub"
15. DJ Znobia "Dandale"

Blogroll!

There are so many DJs and music fans out there dropping tunes and info about baile funk stuff that for some time now I’ve been wanting to do a proper blogroll of what’s going on. So check out these and thanks for all the baile funk fans for keeping the scene alive!


Fat Planet

Stuart is a DJ running a weekly radio show called Fat Planet in Sydney, Australia. Besides this he’s been writing the exellent Fat Planet blog since 2003. It was selected earlier this year as the best blog for world music by Guardian UK and truly so Fat Planet keeps it coming on full range and delightfully drops also quite a lot of baile funk news in midst. Check out for example this recent post about Big Hits From The Hill: Recent Baile Funk Releases. And don’t forget his exellent podcast; Slang Tang!


Masala

Guillaume and J.P. are a pair of radio DJs from Montreal, Canada and besides hosting an exellent world music show at CISM, they write an exellent bi-lingual (french and english) blog, both called Masala. Both have a keen interest on baile funk and it’s featured regurarly on their blog. Check out these posts (Give Me More Of That Bateria & Masala To Go 7 - Bateria Com Funk) on Macumbinha rhythm from Guillaume’s last visit to Rio.


Mad Decent

Then there are of course Diplo and Paul Devro from Mad Decent that drop a couple of killer tracks every once in a while on their superb blog. Here’s some of the latest: Focki Focki & DJ Edgar. And don’t forget that Diplo’s producing an baile funk documentary called Favela On Blast with a brazilian film director Leandro HBL. It’s on post production right now, so should be out for the summer (hopefully), but I’ll give you more on that later...


Ghetto Bassquake

Vamanos is a DJ based in London and he’s got this Ghetto Bassquake blog where he keeps on dropping baile funk tunes every once in a while... Check out this one on Funketa, a mix of baile funk and Colombian champeta by Isa GT.


Kalleidosonic

Maga Bo is a DJ and a producer working on various styles of world music, but since he lives in Rio, he’s constantly doing also baile funk stuff. He has this Kalleidosonic blog on his Comando Digital project and it’s highlights include the video interviews with Daniel Haaksman and MC Gringo and reports about the Rio violence (Everyday Violence, Rio Body Count & What If This Was Your House?).


Beat Diaspora

Greg is a DJ and a university student writing Beat Diaspora blog that deals with a lot of baile funk issues. (often with a very critical point of view; Seleção do Gringo part1 & Stirring The Pot) But more importantly he’s been curating the release of the Flamin Hotz CD Pancadão do Morro: O Funk do Flamin Hotz, Já É? (Big Hits From the Hill: Flamin Hotz Funk, You Down?) labeled by Greg ”Fair Trade Funk”. Check out also this valid critisism on the Priobidão C.V. CD I also wrote about a while ago.


Otra Luna

Teemu is a finnish all around media worker currently working with the Fundação Dois Irmãos in Rochinha, Rio. His blog Otra Luna features also some baile funk posts every once in a while (Fresh Funk: the Bad, the Good, and the Ugly). Check out also this exellent post about Rio’s hip hop king, MV Bill.


Cabaret Eletrônico

Sabrina Fidalgo is a brazilian journalist living in Germany and currently doing an documentary about baile funk. Her blog Cabaret Eletrônico features also baile funk themes like this Sany Pitbull interview.


Man Recorder

Man Recordings chief Daniel Haaksman does also a blog with a lot of label related info and mish mash.


MC Gringo

And finally something from the lighter side: MC Gringo has a blog also, some funny stuff up there..!

Sany Pitbull mix at Radio Dadio

One of the baile funk enthusiastics in Switzerland, Raphallus Orgasmus, hooked me up with this Sany Pitbull exclusive mix he recorded for Radio Dadio when Sany was playing there in April. Unfortunately there's no playlist, but it's pure baile heatery!