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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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Edu K Asks the World to Do the Brega with a New EP!
The fact that global bass trends cycle from one undiscovered subculture to the next (today, Chicago juke! tomorrow, moombahsoul!) isn't a new breakthrough in popular...
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Thiago Pethit’s Brazilian Cabaret Pop
Name: Thiago Pethit
Where He’s From: São Paulo, Brazil
When He Started: 2007
Genre: Alternative Pop
For Fans Of: Esteman, Tulipa, Natalia...
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CSS Is Back with New Album Announcement and a Hangover
CSS - the Brazilian rock band best known for hits like "Music is My Hot Hot Sex" (from 2008 iPod commercial fame) and "Let's Make Love (And Listen To Death From Above)"...
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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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Queen of Tecnobrega: Gaby Amarantos
The album cover for Gaby Amarantos’ major-label debut, Treme, tells much of the story for her. She’s standing in front of a giant sound system covered in jungle foliage,...
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Going on the Record with Zuzuka Poderosa in Brooklyn
Born in Brazil, Zuzuka Poderosa spent part of her childhood in the Caribbean and now resides in New York. As a global bass vocalist, this world traveler brings raw power...
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Devendra Banhart Narrates the Life of Tim Maia in Two Minutes
If you are a fan of Brazilian funk soul legend Tim Maia you may find yourself at a loss for words when asked who he was. That's okay because Devendra Banhart will do the...
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Uruguay’s Campo: Self-Made and Grammy-Nominated
If you haven't heard Montevideo's Campo yet, you will very, very soon.
The Grammy-nominated crew from Uruguay includes an Academy Award winning composer, a superstar...
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N.A.S.A. Prepares For Relaunch In 2013
Words and Interview by Kathy Iandoli.
It’s been close to five years since N.A.S.A. collaborated with Kanye West on the track “Gifted.” With Lykke Li and Santigold on...
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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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N.A.S.A Drops Latest Single “Overdrive”
Not to be confused with America's space administration (but still pretty damn worldly) the DJ-producer collaboration known as N.A.S.A just dropped its newest single,...
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Metrosexual Favela Assasin Swag
Big things have been happening for Leo Justi, the Rio De Janiero producer with a fresh take on baile funk. In the last year, he's popped everywhere from an official MIA...
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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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Brazilian Bass Culture (& Beyond)!
For just about all of history, Brazil has produced some of the most compelling music on the planet. Right now, with the rapid growth of Brazil's economy, we're hearing...
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It’s a Bloody Toy Massacre in Two Fingers (Amon Tobin’s) “Vengeance Rhythm” Video
Yo this is gross! Brazilian electronic artist and visual mastermind Amon Tobin has an alter ego called Two Fingers, and it's clearly his outlet for his dark side. His...