As you may have heard, we´re about to release the best tracks of the Funk Mundial compilation on CD on April 20th. The CD launch celebrations officially started last Saturday, with a release party kick off at our bi-monthly Man Recordings night at Scala. Sinden, who provided “Tamborzuda” in the Funk Mundial series together with Herve, came over from London to rock some bass, supported by Mr.Wix from Parra Sound System Amsterdam and myself. See the photo journal here.

Mr.Wix and Sinden gearing up before the show

Wix heating it up

Sinden dropping some amazing dub step and funky house

The crowd at Scala going whow

The best bootleg T-Shirt of the night

Phra from Crookers just sent us this exclusive snippet from their upcoming album. There will be songs in autotune, dancehall riddims, and Phra toasting in Italian – right next to vocal contributions by Kanye, Kid Cudi, Yelle, Tim Burgess, and Rosin Murphy amongst others. But as Phra sings: Volevi l´album ma noi non ce lo abbiamo….., so we gotta wait a little bit more for it. But we´ll keep you posted.

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Say kids, what time is it? It´s Thursday. And it´s time for Tim Turbo. One of the few young Berlin DJs / culture impressarios that keeps us inspired these days, Tim is running a cool, weekly Podcast titled, err, “Tim Turbo Thursday”. Hosted by our sister-blog SEEN, the Tim Turbo podcast presents 360 degree music awareness – just how we like it. Check out also his latest remix for Movado, running tings!

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Check photos of the new IPhone – with the upcoming Ku Bo album already installed.

NASA

João Brasil keeps the Lambada alive with this remix he’s done for N.A.S.A’s “Whachadoin”, leaving just the vocals and chorus from the original.

NASA are DJ Zegon (José Gonzales) and Squeak E Clean, Squeak E is apparantly director Spike Jonze’s brother and Zegon is a Brazilian Hip-Hop dj who used to live in the states, worked with Money Mark amongst others and may be now living in São Paulo. He has done interesting production work for Os Racionais and Marcelo D2, the two biggest hip hop acts in Brazil and djed hip-hop extensively in Brazil but now seems to be playing gigs with artists like Mixhell and has entered mash-up culture – though his hip-hop sets always did feature a healthy selection of rap rock bootlegs.

Download here: whachadoin joao brasil tropical mix

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Sorry for a week of no posting – my last days in Rio have been very hectic with loads of recording, going to bailes and visiting DJs and artists at their homes. Now I´m back in Berlin and working my way through tons of CDs and stuff that I got from various DJs. To be honest, there´s not much exciting new stuff around in Rio at the moment. The last new flavour in funk – Macumba – the more Bahian inspired funk, incorporating elements of Bahian music and Samba drumming, is limited to a few new tunes which circulate in the blogosphere. The majority of the rest is Tamborzinho after Tamborzinho, with hardly any exciting songs and lyrics – except for MC Maiquinho´s stuff. One of my favourite picks so far I found on a fifteen year old funk compilation, part of a big crate I copped on a street market in Rio´s center (see photo).

Here´s Bob Rum´s “Rap Do Silva” from 1993

RAP DO SILVA

Sorry for no photos from Rio – I lost my camera in a club, arghhh….

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Check Buraka´s new club smasher “Aqui pra voçês” featuring our dear Deize Tigrona

The baile cumbia clash / Funk Mundial #8 release party at ZZK club in Buenos Aires last Saturday was a real banger. Approximately four to five hundred people came down to shake their booties to Chancha Via Circuito (with an amazing live set), El Remólon (100% all pure hip shakers), El Grant (presenting cool new ZZK stuff), Douster (block rocking beats) and Deize Tigrona´s live p.a. – the first ever baile funk show on Argentinian soil. Presenting anthems like “Injeção”, “Sex-O-Matic”, “Miniatur De Lulu”, “Bandida” or her recent collab with Buraka, “Aqui pra voçes”, Deize proofed once more, that she is the undisputed queen of baile funk, able to rock any club from Kopenhagen to Buenos Aires.

Thanks to El Grant, Giorgio Ronna, El Remolón, Naim, Villa Diamante, Pablo and his three cute sisters for making this weekend so special. ZZK rules!!

If you´re happen to be in Buenos Aires this weekend, please come down to the release party of Funk Mundial #8, the ZZK edition.

The ZZK party is part #2 of the Baile Cumbia clash which started in Berlin in December and is now followed by the Buenos Aires edition, peaking in the release of Funk Mundial #8 the ZZK volume featuring contributions by Frikstailers, Chancha Via Circuito, Douster and El Remolon. The vinyl will be released mid March, catch the digital version on Beatport in the meantime to get into the groove.

The Buenos Aires party will feature Deize Tigrona and myself as the Baile ambassadors and the ZZK all stars with Chancha Via Circuito, El Remolon, Douster and Villa Diamante on the decks as the Cumbia rockers. For Deize, it´s her Argentinian debut show – so it´s an extra special night in the very scarce Brazilian-Argentinian musical exchange.

CUMBIA BAILE CLASH
ZZK VS. MAN RECORDINGS
VOODOO MOTEL – Dorrego 1735 – Palermo
Cover: $25 from 24 to 2AM. After $30.

Haaksman is in Rio….again. He claims its for “label” business, but everytime I skype with him, he’s in a rush because he HAS to go to the beach.

Well, I wish I was in Rio too, and so does Joyce Muniz. Which is why we decided to do a mix of some of the records that we picked up from Rio when we were there last Summer. Most of the tunes in the mix are from vinyl, from the days when they still pressed up Baile Funk onto wax. Some real classics in this mix, from now defunct labels such as Pipos, Balanco, Spacelab and Explocao.

Download it here

TRACKLIST