Alabê Ketujazz

Alabê Ketujazz

From the press release on their website: “Alabê presents the traditional percussion of the Afro-Brazilian religion known as Candomblé in a jazz context. The compositions are dialogues between the percussion of the Ketu nation and the saxophone, like the Rum (the...
Bondoro: New MOZ Dance & Beats

Bondoro: New MOZ Dance & Beats

Bondoro is a quite new dance and music style from Beira, Mozambique’s second largest city in the central part of the country. In several aspects it is similar to South African Kwaito and Kuduro from Angola. Bondoro is a slang word that means plaster and that...
STANK

STANK

STANK is a duo formed by DJ Dolores and Yuri Queiroga. Live they value improvisation, mixing original tracks with records, samples, guitar and gadgets leading to a rare case of combination of experimentation and full dancefloor. The EP is a compilation of remixes done...
Sigauque Project

Sigauque Project

From their website: “The music of Maputo-based Sigauque Project takes most audiences by surprise. With musical influences spanning across the continent – from a new take on Marrabenta to Senegalese Mbalak and Nigerian Afro Beat, with some smooth sounding...
Bemba Trio

Bemba Trio

Formed by Russo Passapusso, Fael 1st and DJ Root. BEMBA TRIO incorporates the diversity and cultural authenticity of the peripheral culture of Bahia state in its melodies, performances and language. The vocalists emphasize on a spoken style valuing stories, regional...
Dangdut Electro

Dangdut Electro

Dangdut is a popular music style from Indonesia that originally is partly derived from Malay, Arabic, and Hindustani music. One of it’s modern subgenres is called Dangdut Electro or Dangdut House and is actually more 190bpm-Drum’n’Bass-Pop style....
MC César do Castro

MC César do Castro

MC César do Castro is one of the very few MCs from Rio that do not only make Putaria (sexist) and Poibidão (apology to crime) tracks, but as well Funk Consciente (“Conscious Funk”, with socially critical lyrics). Here he raps about a personal experience regarding...
Tecno Brega News

Tecno Brega News

It seems that Tecno Brega/Electro Melody continues on the list of the genres to keep an eye on. Blogs and magazines regularly post about it, like Man Recordings, The Wire and The Uncool Hunter, for example. João Brasil as well made a nice mixtape with tracks of one of...
HAPAX

HAPAX

Hapax is a band and a sound art group that works with percussion in industrial wasteyard style and experimental electronic music to create a sound that is conceptual, pop and densely rhythmic at the same time. Musically, the style could be called...
Digitaldubs – #1

Digitaldubs – #1

Digital Dubs started in 2001 as the first sound system specialized in Reggae, Dub and Dancehall in Rio de Janeiro. Their releases feature international vocalists like Ranking Joe, Earl Sixteen, Tippa Irie and Brinsley Forde as well as Brazilian artists like B Negão,...
Reventon de Halloween

Reventon de Halloween

Some tracks from a compilation I got recently in Mexico D.F. Differently of what the cover could imply, it’s full of Salsa, Pop, Electro, but as well Cumbia and...
El Tecla

El Tecla

Cumbia Villera artist El Tecla with some tracks from his second album from 2009 “Una Chance Mas”. He was the leader of the band La Ihuana Mari that stopped existing after he left in 2007 to start his solo career. Get more Cumbia Villera here and here for...
DJs Di Ghetto

DJs Di Ghetto

DJs Di Ghetto is a collective from Lisbon producing cool Instrumental Kuduro. Check their compilation from 2007 for free here. One of their protagonists is DJ Marfox with a live DJ set and the tracks...
Ghetto Bassquake Label: A.J. Holmes & The Hackney Empire

Ghetto Bassquake Label: A.J. Holmes & The Hackney Empire

Another one of my favourite blogs is launching a label: Ghetto Bassquake! Congratulations!!! The first release is from A.J. Holmes & The Hackney Empire and produced by Radioclit. You can listen to it and get more info here. Get a free Remix from Mexico’s...
Oi! A Nova Musica Brasileira!

Oi! A Nova Musica Brasileira!

A very nice compilation from Mais Um Discos with new Brazilian artists. Styles varying from new wave, tropicália, folk & indie to electronic, dancehall, baile-funk, dub, hip-hop, r ‘n’ b & folktronica. Always with Brazilian flavour, but off the nu-bossa and...
Música Negra Del Perú: Festejos Al 100%

Música Negra Del Perú: Festejos Al 100%

A compilation of afro-peruvian music or música criolla. Combining African, Spanish and Andean influences the genre consists of various rythms and dances like Festejo, Landó, Marinera, Alcatraz and Pregon. One of its characteristic instruments is the cajón, a wooden...
Sacassaia

Sacassaia

Sacassaia from Brasília produce a very interesting mixture of Brazilian styles and other Latin-American rhythms together with Rap and Dub. From their website: “In the first semester of 2008 the DJ/MC/composer Gardenel (Gabriel Gardenal) and the...
¿Qué tal, Tribal?

¿Qué tal, Tribal?

Some fresh Mexican Tribal! My buddy Acorde On told me that the Mexican Tribal stuff has not much to do with “Ghettotech”: It is played basically as warm-up on (upper) middle class house and techno parties…...
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...
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...
Lisandro Meza

Lisandro Meza

Lisandro Meza is one of Colombia’s most recognized Cumbia artists and played an important role in the evolution of Cumbia. He plays accordion, sings, and composes and is a master of vallenato sabanero, an accordion-driven style of music that originated in...

Funk Carioca Hybrid 8: DJ Moiséis

I rather post this tune because of curiosity than quality, it’s very cheesy. 😉 It’s a Tecnobrega Remix of a Funk Carioca track that uses the Tamborzão beat. MC Perlla – Beijo de Cinema (DJ Moiséis Computer Remix)
Funk Carioca Hybrid 7: Copyfokking

Funk Carioca Hybrid 7: Copyfokking

Very nice technoid mashup from my buddy Åsmunds Copyfokking project. I like this because it uses the tamborzão beat while most of the western funk carioca remixes/mashups just use the...
Celso Piña

Celso Piña

Mexican musician Celso Piña is a pioneer in mixing cumbia with ska, reggae, rap, hip-hop, dub etc. working together with guys like Toy Selectah and Chic Sonido. His hit “Cumbia sobre el rio” is a milestone and was for many people (including me) the...
Funk Carioca Hybrid 6: Lucas Santtana

Funk Carioca Hybrid 6: Lucas Santtana

This is from Lucas Santtana’s second album called “Parada de Lucas” released in 2003. His third album that deals with Dub, Brazilian Styles and Rock can be found free to download on his website Diginóis. You can buy here his fantastic new release...