UNDERGROUND MUSIC FROM AROUND THE GLOBE
Macumbia – Carne Latina
Macumbia is a band based in Joao Pessoa in Northeastern Brazil. They mix Caribbean and Latin with traditional Brazilian rhythms. As the groups members are from different cultures and nationalities such as Brazil, Venezuela and North America the lyrics are in Spanish,...
Rafa Dias – CaYndo em CaYmmi
Rafa Dias who is one of the main heads of the Bass scene in Salvador, capital of Bahia State in Brazil. He comes here up with very interesting tracks he produced with samples from Bahias music master Dorival Caymmi. Brazilian old school music meets Trap, Funk Carioca...
Iconili – Piacó
Iconili is a band from Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais State in Brazil. After their debut album "Tupi Novo Mundo" from 2013 they just released their second long player. Still based mainly on Afrobeat they go further in this excellent work adding to the...
Thiago Elniño – Fundamento
Thiago Elniño from the midzsize industrial city Volta Redonda in the Rio de Janeiro state comes up with a Hip Hop/Rap album full of oldschool Brazil samples, nice! [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/84783318"...
BaianaSystem – Playsom
New and free track from Bahia's best Sound System. Free download from their website. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne7E5geBMWE
Flying Buff – Mil Trutas EP
Great EP from São Paulos newcomer duo Flying Buff full of Bass, Trap and Rasterinha. Free download here.
ÀTTØØXXÁ – GHETTO>SUB>SQUARE
ÀTTØØXXÁ is the new project of Rafa Dias who is one part of Δ.MΔ.$$Δ and producer of Os Nelsons. On his first EP ÀTTØØXXÁ pays homage to Timbalada which is one of the most famous a percussion groups from Salvador lead by Bahia superstar Carlinhos Brown. The goal was...
Zimun – Pra Frente
The album from Zimun out of Belo Horizonte is a rich and diverse ride between hip hop, jazz, afrobeat, rock and funk. Download from their website. [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/63197036"...
Superlage
Superlage comes up with an excellent mix of Cumbia and regional flavors from North Brazil such as Carimbó and Brega. With it's tripping tropical off beats this will for sure warm up every heart and soul suffering from winter dark- and frostiness. From their press...
Alessandra Leão – Pedra de Sal
After the album "Dois Cordões" from 2009 Alessandra Leão. just released the first of a trilogy of EPs that features other excellent musicians such as Caçapa, Juçara Marçal and Kiko Dinucci. Check more info on Sounds & Colours. Download for free from her...
Sacassaia – Boca da Terra
Great new album from Brasílias Sacassaia out now. Download for free from their website.
Criolo – Convoque Seu Buda
Criolo just released his new album which contains apart of Hip Hop and Rap as well MPB, Samba and Afro(beat). He counts with the participation of Tulipa Ruiz, Money Mark, Juçara Marçal, Kiko Dinucci, Rodrigo Campos and Síntese. Download for free from his website or...
Maning Nice Mixtape
A mixtape with Mozambican stuff like Pandza, Afro House and Bondoro. 01. 3 MOZquiteiros - Tsova (D.E.P. Zaida e Carlos lhongo) 02. One Two feat. Mr Kuka - Tá na moda 03. Mega Jotta - Miguelita 04. Dama do Bling - Ivannea - Niggas que cheiram a catinga (feat. Denny OG)...
Afroelectro – Mocambo EP
Afroelectro just released the EP Mocambo with five unreleased tracks that have been recorded live in the studio. This EP is registering the work between the first and the second album showing the new tracks in its purest and most organic way. Free download from their...
Etnohaus Vol. 1 – As bordas da boca
Etnohaus is a physical space and collective for artistic and cultural production that is made for the exchange of experiences and reflections on the contemporary creative urban environment. People related to the maintenance of the independent art scene circulate and...
Goma-Laca – Afrobrasilidades em 78 RPM
Goma-Laca is a kind of research center dedicated to discover Brazilian music from the first half of the last century that is registered in 78 RPM shellac records (goma laca in Portuguese). Since 2009 the journalists Ronaldo Evangelista and Biancamaria Binazzi look for...
Russo Passapusso – Paraíso da Miragem
Known for being lead vocalist at BaianaSystem and Bemba Trio one would expect from Russo Passapussos debut album some Reggae, Dub and Dancehall infused Bahian music or the like, but it's not. Produced by Curumin, Zé Nigro and Lucas Martins he rereads vintage MPB,...
André Sampaio & Os AfroMandinga – Desaguou
André Sampaio is lead guitarist of one of the most popular Roots Reggae bands from Brazil, "Ponto de Equilibrio", and a pioneer of the new wave of Brazilian musicians working with Afrobeat. But the ingredients used for his first solo album "Desauguou" do not finish...
Anelis Assumpção e os Amigos Imaginários
Very nice fusion of Reggae and Dub with Brazilian and other latinamerican music from Sao Paulo based singer Anelis' second album. Free download from her website. http://youtu.be/TENTmBwXz7o http://youtu.be/v_5UQaykL7g
w∆lla-C – T∆mborimOdyssey
"wΔlla| C is an MC/Beatmaker from Rio de Janeiro, now resident in Perth WA. Producing beats for over 2 years now, he draws from diverse influences such as jazz, funk, blaxploitation, afrofuturism, glitch, lo-fi beats, afrobeat, brazilian folk, amongst others....
Wired for Sounds: Mozambique
Wired for Sound is a very nice and interesting project and recordings in Northern Mozambique. Check out their interview for The Guardian. https://soundcloud.com/wiredforsoundsa/sets/wired-for-sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9th51PM7UQ#t=10
Funk Carioca Hybrid 20: disque DJ – Mambo Latino (Feat. Frank Pavo Hernández)
Bmore Mambo goes Funk Carioca!
Naurêa – Na Dansanteria
NaurÊa from Aracajú (capital of Sergipe State in the Northeast of Brazil) plays what they call Sambaião. As the name already suggests, it's a mixture of Samba and Baião (one of the music styles that later became Forró), but that's not all. The band receives other...
PROJETONAVE & EMICIDA – 7′ NASBASE
São Paulo's inventive and incendiary band PROJETONAVE teams up with Emicida for a single commemorating the city's 460th birthday. Download for free. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX7vIK326XA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0BlTDR2YPQ
Coletivo di Tambor
The Coletivo di Tambor is made up of musicians from Timbalada, Baiana System, Orquestra Rumpillez among others and presents on his first EP a globalized mix between Bahian styles like Samba and Ijexá, as well as Carimbó, Merengue African Music and electronic elements....
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 name was...
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...
Wladimir Gasper
"Wladimir Gasper, nephew of a Russian filmmaker, was born in Ukraine and came to Brazil when he was still young. He left the former Soviet country to venture into the inspirations of the tropics and created his bunker here. He could be a metaphysical or a freestyle...
Suena Pacífico Mixtape
Mixtape of Afro-Colombian music from the Pacific coast, basically Currulao and Chirimía. Latino Resiste released in 2012 an excellent compilation (Root A Pacífica) with remixes of those styles and learn more about Colombian music and culture in Sounds and Colours'...
3 MOZquiteiros – FRELIMU (Frente de Libertação de Música)
Mozambique is actually not much on the musical map of the world despite it's original music styles such as Pandza, Marrabenta and the sound of the Mbila (kind of xylophone). Regarding Hip Hop and electronic music the national artists focus more on copying the western...