Funk Carioca Hybrid 9: Munchi

Funk Carioca Hybrid 9: Munchi

This one is from young Dominican dude Munchi living in Rotterdam. He is one of the few producers outside of Brazil making Funk Carioca close to the real style, but with sense for western production. Check it...
Positivo

Positivo

Positivo is a multicultural music project with five ingredients: Roots Afro Beat from Mozambique, Rocking blues from Austria, Reggae dub live, hip-hop and french contemporary punk jazz. But it’s not only about music, from their website: “Associação...
Funk Carioca 2009 Mixtape

Funk Carioca 2009 Mixtape

Actually not much happened in the Funk Carioca scene in 2009, already mentioned here for example. Most of the tracks use the aquecimento beat, vocals are just reduced frases and shouts and the lyrics are mostly putaria. But fortunately there have been some interesting...
Kuduro in Brazilian Carnival

Kuduro in Brazilian Carnival

I just knew that in Brazil Kuduro is played in the bars of the Angolan community and maybe on some global urban beats parties until I found out after a comment from Greg from Beat Diaspora on my Kuduro Mixtape that it was well bigger and that there was a Kuduro dance...