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Please Explain: Sertanejo, The Countrified Pop That Rules Brazil
If you had a pulse and lived on planet Earth in 2012, there’s a decent chance you heard Michel Teló’s “Ai Se Eu Te Pego.” Maybe you even learned the dance – fan...
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Scene Report: Luxury-Obsessed Funk Ostentação Hits Brazil
As Brazil’s economy booms and Brazilians collectively head to the mall to spend, a new, money-loving, tag poppin’ brand of baile funk is poised to rise.
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Zuzuka Poderosa Is Ready To Show the World Her Beautiful Carioca Bass
Zuzuka Poderosa's bio is a lot like the story of global bass music itself. The Brazil-born, Brooklyn-based bass vocalist is inspired by baile funk but her music has...
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Zuzuka Poderosa Has Us Over for Some Tasty Brazilian Bass
Brazilian mic maven Zuzuka Poderosa calls her genre-bending baile funk-inspired music Carioca bass, which also happen to be the name of her new EP. In this exclusive...
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Gato Preto Cordially Invites You to the Global Bass Ball
Name: Gato Preto, Gata Misteriosa and Lee Bass
Where They’re From: Mozambique/Ghana/Portugal/Germany
When They Started: 2011
Sounds Like: Tropical bass smoothie...
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Zuzuka Poderosa’s Got A New Jam And It’s Psicodelic
New anything from Brooklyn-stationed baile funk/global bass empress Zuzuka Poderosa tends to put us in an altered state, but the Nego Moçambique remix of "Psicodelia"...
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Ostentation Funk: Documentary Highlights São Paulo Baile Funk
Rio de Janeiro is rightly known as the original home of baile funk. But São Paulo is a different city and funk music has taken on different qualities there, adapting to...
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Stateless Bass: Four Hunks Of Global Dance Music In Transit
Global bass gets a little more global everyday. Kuduro, baile funk and cumbia may have originated in Angola, Brazil and Colombia respectively, but now you might hear...
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Avalanche Tropical: Brazil’s Answer To Mad Decent
Dago Donato, a São Paulo-based global bass DJ and co-founder of Brazil’s Avalanche Tropical music collective, makes a pretty good point.
“You can’t stop an avalanche,...
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Baile Trap and Other Delights From Sango
Name: Sango
Where He’s From: Grand Rapids, Michigan via Seattle, Washington
When He Started: 2009
Genre: Future Bass
Most Similar: Flying Lotus, TNGHT,...
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Deize Tigrona And Jaloo Make Bodacious Baile Brega Together
It's a match made in Brazilian booty bass heaven! Tecno brega ironist Jaloo from the north teamed up with Rio de Janeiro baile funk diva Deize Tigrona and the result is...
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Product of Brazil: João Brasil’s Rio-Bred Corn
Name: João Brasil
Where He's From: Rio de Janeiro
Genre: Nu-Tecnobrega, sort of
Most Similar: Banda UÓ, Jaloo
When He Started: 2007
Sounds Like: The...
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Bonde Do Rolê Teams with Diplo for “Tropicalbacanal”
For their upcoming baile funk album Tropicalbacanal, Brazil's Bonde Do Rolê has teamed up with producers Diplo and Poolside. We are expecting some pretty funky global...
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Bonde do Rolê: Older, Wiser, Still Unrepentant Perverts
In the 45 minutes I spent chatting with DJ Gorky of Brazilian band Bonde do Rolê, we managed to talk about murderous transvestites, “Toddlers & Tiaras,” extreme...
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Did Crookers Create a Monster?
If you’ve kept even one ear trained on the dance music scene lately, chances are you are extremely familiar with Italian DJ duo Crookers. Members Bot and Phra have been...
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Baile Funk Getting Squashed in Rio Crackdown
Funk carioca, better known in these parts as "baile funk" has been the ruling soundsystem party sound of Rio de Janeiro for decades. But it looks like the music's future...
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Zuzuka Poderosa’s Carioca Bass Mixtape Is Born
Global bass diva Zuzuka Poderosa just bounced back with her Carioca Bass mixtape produced by DJ Kush Arora. Born in Brazil and raised in the West Indies, Zuzuka has been...
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Xenomania: Nothing is Foreign in an Internet Age
Words by Simon Reynolds
Imagine the media as a hydraulic system: broadband has dramatically expanded the pipes and channels through which cultural data, including...
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Daniel Peixoto Chews n Swallows Beats
We love to love tecnobrega, the cheesy, intellectual property-thieving mashup beats out of Brazil's northeast. So does Daniel Peixoto, the former androgynous frontman...