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!

DJ Cornelius - From Rio to Toa Payoh (a new mix from Singapore)

Baile Funk travels far... My friend Wan aka DJ Cornelius from Singapore (!) sent me this cool mix with a lotta baile funk tunes I've been feelin lately. I know DJ Edgar will be all amazed when I tell him next friday that his songs have made their way all the way to south-east Asia... (Even Europe is soooo far away for the carioca DJs.) Anyway, check the mix out, it's really good!



DJ Cornelius - From Rio to Toa Payoh

Tracklist:

01 DJ Sandrinho - Italiano Lento [Man Recordings]
02 DJ Sandrinho - Never B Alone We R Ur Friends Remix [Unreleased]
03 DJ Edgar - Pura Satisfação [Man Recordings]
04 Bonde Neurose - Melo De Michael Jackson [Unreleased]
05 MC Vanessinha - Gira [Unreleased]
06 M.I.A - Bucky Done Gun (DJ Marlboro Funk Carioca Remix) [XL Recordings]
07 Mekon Ft. Roxanne Shante - Yes Yes Yall (Sinden Baile Funk Remix) [PIAS/Wall Of Sound]
08 Kanye West - Stronger (Diplo Work Is Never Done Remix) [White]
09 DJ Edgar - Prostituto (Sweet Dreams) [Unreleased]
10 Dj Edgar - Desteny [Unreleased]
11 Bonde De Role - Solta O Frango [Domino Recordings]
12 DJ Sandrinho - Pumpere Up [Man Recordings]
13 DJ Edgar - Nirvana Funk [Unreleased]
14 M.I.A - Galangtion (Diplo Remix) [Unreleased]

Download from zShare:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/112856451678be21/

Next weekend, DJ Rideon in Prague and Brussels.

Greets from Vienna! Had a blast in Leopold, great parties! Pics soon come... Meanwhile don't forget to come and holler next weekend in Prague (when I'm playing alongside DJ Edgar) and in Brussels!