Bebel Du Guetto
My neighbor Bebel Do Guetto from Morro do Cantagalo was born in the state of Maranhão. She started to sing and to rap by the age of 12 and to write their own lyrics by 17 (she is 23 now). Bebel says her main influences are Elza Soares, Snoop Dog and Bob Marley. The...
Fiesta Influenza
Got this CD with macabre title on a street market in Mexico City. It’s mostly crap Pop stuff, but some interesting Tribal/Technocumbia on it too. They use to put a minimix of some of the tracks as first track on the CDs. So this is that Intromix giving an...
Funk Carioca Hybrid 5: Digitaldubs
This is the instrumental version of Rio’s Digitaldubs’ fantastic Funk Milk Riddim. Funk Carioca meets Dancehall! Get the whole CD on Muzamba Records here or two more tracks for download here. Definitly check out as well MPC’s awesome baile dancehall...
Costuleta – Bomba Kuduro
Here are two tracks and a video from Costuleta’s latest release that you can buy on Kizomba....
Funk Carioca Hybrid 4: Sabbo
Just got this very nice housy Funk Carioca Hybrid track from Israeli producer Sabbo. The vocals are from MC Thiaguinho released on Man...
Funk Carioca Hybrid 3: Frikstailers
Here is one more from one of the best new Argentinean producers, the Frikstailers. They just released an EP on Revolt Into Style Records that kindly provided this track. Buy the whole EP on vinyl from Juno Records or the digital format...
Funk Carioca Hybrid 2: Turbo Trio
Turbo Trio is made up of BNegão, Tejo Damasceno (from Instituto) and Alexandre Basa (who produced the first album of Black Alien). They make a mix between Electro, Miami Bass and Funk Carioca and released their debut album in...A Base Baile Funk 2008
This is a version of the tamborzinho beat that dominated the Funk Carioca (or Baile Funk) scene in Rio in 2008. It is a beatbox version of the tamborzão beat. The voice is from Mr. Catra and it has been originally produced by DJ Sandrinho, but I don’t know who...
Funk Carioca Hybrid 1: MC Gringo & Frikstailers
Foreign funk carioca pioneer MC Gringo recently teamed up with Frikstailers on his tour in Argentina. Watch a video here. Check out their remix of his track “Fudegú de Perequetê”. This is the start of an irregular series on remixes, mash-ups and other...
Kuduro Dessert
I got some messages asking for more Kuduro tracks so here are some add-ons. First, it’s the recently released Foça Kuduro EP on Flamin’ Hotz that I kindly received from Casi. As most of the tracks have been posted already on other blogs I just link to them...
