The online version of one of our favourite magazines, Dazed + Confused just posted an interview with me on Funk Mundial and Man Recordings, have a look here:

Funk Mundial From Berlin To Rio

Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire

Paul Snowden, our man for all things design has just produced a limited edition range of SÃO PAULO WASTED YOUTH t-shirts. Order them through WGY:

http://www.wasted-german-youth.com/

If you´re in the Benelux area, please come down to KVS club coming Saturday to the Funk Mundial release party. DJ Edgar, Joyce Muniz and myself will bang out Brasilian floor burners to the max – Deize Tigrona unfortunately wont perform as she caught the flu before her departure to Europe. Nevertheless, we´re going to rock it. Our host TLP – our favourite Belgian DJ right after The Glimmers – hosts the 2nd floor.

MPC chief rocker DJ EDGAR from Rio De Janeiro kicks off his Europe summer tour next weekend and will stay in Europe until end of July for various shows all across the continent. Check him out at the following spots (soon more to be added):

May 30th Funk Mundial Party @ KVS, Brussels, BE
June 5th Liege Festival, Liege, BE
June 9th Sodra Teatern, Stockholm, SV
June 19th-21th Switzerland
July 24th Skanka Loss Festival, SV

If you fancy booking him, please contact his booking agent Wesley, farol79(at)hotmail.com

Here´s a classic baile funk remix by Edgar for y´all to download:

Chas Devil – DJEdgar Baile Funk Remix

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NAT + ZUZUKA

Finally: Here´s the result from our Funk Mundial remix contest. We received more than 70 entries in our so it took us a while to work through all the tracks from A-Z. In the end we had to make hard decisions, and we even had to extend the final winning selection to four as we simply couldnt exclude any of the last four entries.

The winners are:

João Brasil, Rio De Janeiro, Brasil “Soca Ali Baba – João Brasil Tecno Brega Mix”
Brabe, Amsterdam, Holland “Soca Ali Baba – Brabe Remix”
Vengeance, Australia, “Soca Ali Baba – Vengeance Remix”
Tim Turbo, Berlin, Germany “Tim Turbo Sonnenbank Lazer Remix”

Our winners will receive T-Shirts, Vinyls and a digital release of their remix on Man Rec this summer. We´ll keep you posted about the release date. Thanks again to all who provided their versions!

The prettiest girls of Vienna came down last Saturday to fiercly shake booty at Café Leopold in the Museumsquartier. Special guest Seiji played new remixes and his current UK funky favourites, while Joyce Muniz spanked the crowd hard with some serious Brasilian macho beats, topped with “Bambolero” from Gypsy Kings. DJ Beware shone brightly with seamless mixing everything from early 90s bogle to the latest Afro rave tunes. I dropped tracks from my new EP and was amazed to see people singing along “Subiu, Desceu” by Feadz which has become a radio hit on national radio in Austria. Big Up Vienna, you showed some big love for us again. A pity though the night had to end already at four though the club was still rammed. But we´ll be back soon!!

“Deliverance”, the story of four city men embarking on a rafting tour in the U.S. South and suddenly getting hunted by rednecks, is one of the best movies that New Hollywood produced and one of my favourite flicks. The most memorable scene is the opening scene, where one of the city gents clashes with one of the locals. My old mate Tim “Love” Lee used “Dueling Banjos” to open his DJ sets – creating blank confusion on all dancefloors. Make sure to grab a copy of the soundtrack of “Deliverance”, it´s full of great banjo and honky tonk music, perfect for mixtape interludes or dancefloor irritation. Even Beastie Boys used a bit out of the “Deliverance” soundtrack on “Pauls Boutique” – it´s the country track before “Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun”. Yehaa!

Rio strikes back! In our newest release, “Funk Mundial – The Rio Baile Funk Remixes” Rio De Janeiro’s top baile funk DJs give their musical answers to some of the best tunes of the Funk Mundial series on Man Recordings – presenting baile funk remixes of anthems like Count+Sinden’s “Tamborzuda”, Crookers “Para De Graçinha”, Seiji´s “Todo Mundo” or Stereotyp’s “Jeçe Valadão”. Download here the DJ Edgar remix of “Jeçe Valadão” – and buy the full release on all major digital platforms.

Stereotyp feat. Edu K + Joyce Muniz “Jeçe Valadão” (DJ Edgar Baile Funk Remix)

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If you can´t party in a club in Brasil, you have to have a friend who´s into som automotivo. It´s Brasil´s version of the hi-fi-hot rod. And what´s the best music to play in a som automotivo? Of course: It´s baile funk!