Brazilian music is known for its vast influences from Africa, but how about Afrobeat? Well, the slaves that brought African music to Brazil were deported from their homeland until one century before Fela Kuti and Tony Allen invented the explosive mixture of Jazz,...
“Well tempered Brazilian-Jamaican music, for all tastes, eyes and ears, which satisfies the senses and causes the body to dance. Connecting ideas with lyrics that speak about the everyday, the street, the human being, politics and culture. Strong rhythm with...
“Founded in 2009, the band Afroelectro creates its sonic identity revisiting the African continent through contact with artists and their contemporary sound production, the direct experience of some members of the band with musicians from there and the...
“Enshrined in the national independent music scene SONIC JUNIOR became known for its pulsating energy developed in the disks and his electrifying performance on stage, being called by critics as “one man band”, where he sings, puts the beats and...
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...
New album free for download. From their website: Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda is a symbol of strength and inventiveness of the music of Pernambuco that Brazil and the world have learned to admire. Among latin grooves, afro beats and rhythms of Pernambuco, the...
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Brazilian Northeastern rhythms and guitar riffs meet Dub and Drum´n´Bass. Download for free from their website.
The band OQuadro from Ilheus, south of Bahia, has just released their first album, and promises to give his fans with a quite peculiar run Hip-Hop. With the versatility of shows played with instruments (bass, drums, guitar, percussion and electronics) the group drew...
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Vida Seca was created by members of a street carnival band that used scrap and waste as raw material for constructing musical instruments. They explore timbres and sonorities obtained from these materials researching and re-reading Brazilian , African and Latin...
While Funk Carioca is stagnating or even declining in Rio, it becomes treated in other parts of Brazil. Eletro Funk is made in Brazilian states such as Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Acre and Tocantins and is a mix of Funk Carioca and Electro/House Beats. Unfortunately...
Translation of the accompanying text: Inspired by the Afro-Sambas of Vinicius de Moraes and Baden Powell this disc is to rescue the roots of a folk. Letters that address african-Brazilian spirituality, music full of samples and percussive elements. A mixture of...
Interesting project from NaurÊa mixing Forró, Samba, Afro-Caribean sounds and Tropical Beats. They will release an EP with internationally renown guests every three months and the cover artwork will later form a big mosaic. The remixers on this one are DJ Dolores and...
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I already posted some Tecno Brega tracks that are mixed with other latin american styles. Here comes a minimixtape with Axé Melody, a fusion of Axé, a very popular style from Salvador da Bahia, and Tecno Brega/Eletro Melody. Tracklist: 1. DJ Malboy – Vai Começar...
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...
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,...
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...
August 17 of 1960 is often referred to as the birthday of The Beatles because they played their first show in Hamburg where their career kicked off. As everywhere in the world, the Fab Four were big in Brazil and a lot of bands appeared that simply covered their songs...
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...
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...
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...
From their website: “Coletivo Rádio Cipó is a media hub for the production of sound, combined with the homemade digital audio technology in the production of sound experimental research. The objective is to this production for Brazil and abroad. The core of the...
A guest mix for the Jazzitup radio show on national Estonian Raadio 2. Thanks Anton for inviting! Tracklist: 01. Quarteto Bossamba – Chegança 02. Conjunto Sergio Carvalho – Balaio 03. Sambossa 5 – Câo Xângo 04. Os Seis Em Ponto – Samba Do...
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...
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...
Phonogram-Polygram released between 1978 and 1981 a series of records called MPBC which means Música Popular Brasileira Contemporânea (Contemporary Popular Brazilian Music). But has less to do with MPB or other Brazilian Pop music, but in fact with Jazz and Fusion...
Funkero is one of the most talented and fastest Brazilian MCs. He participated two times in the final of the Liga dos MCs, a local battle competition, and appeared on several TV shows. His first solo album is mixed by DJ Negralha with whom he performs live as well....