Ok everybody, my “Gostoso Remix” EP is about to drop in one week. To warm you up a little for the release with remixes by Edu K, Zombie Disco Squad, Sharkslayer and many other top cats, we´d like to challenge your remixing skills and are initiating another remix contest, this time with Fairtilizer. It´s for “Kid Conga”, one of the main tunes from the “Gostoso EP”, featuring the six year old MC Miltinho. Can you beat Edu K and the other remixers?

THE RULES

1. Download the parts & original HERE

2. Remix the song the way you like!

3. Upload your remix on Fairtilizer and name it Kid Conga (your name Remix) and add “Kid Conga contest” in the tags.
 Note: You have to register to Fairtilizer to be able to upload a track (it takes 30 seconds and it’s free)

4. The winner will be selected by Man Recordings.

5. More infos here: http://fairtilizer.com/track/kidconga

Prize:
Best remix(es) will be released in digital and featured Man Recordings blog & newsletter + get bonus goodies package by Man Recordings
 & Fairtilizer.

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT REMIX: September 15th

Our newest singing, Isa GT from London, just send us her new mixtape. It´s perfectly for all of you who are about to attend this weekend´s London Nottinghill Carnival – for the rest, it´s a brillant weekend mix to bounce off to.

Expect Isa´s debut EP to drop on Man Recordings in early November, with tracks produced by Crookers, Edu K, Toy Selectah and myself.

TRACKLIST:

Daniel Haaksman – Jesus feat. Tati Quebra Barraco (Schlachthofbronx Remix)
Boy 8 Bit – A City Under Siege
Genghis Clan – Quero Buceta feat. DJ Panko + Dudu Siri
Major Lazer x Afrojack x Partysquad – Hold The Line (Douster Hold the Drop Edit)
Silverlink ft. Badness + Jammer – Message is love (L-Vis 1990 Dub Remix 2009)
Busy Signal – Da style deh (Douster Dagga remix)
Drop The Lime – Tabac Theme
Renaissance Man – What Is Guru (Riva Starr Remix)
Black Box – Everybody Everybody (Toy Selectah’s quickfix)
8GB feat Fauna – Piolaboy
Toddla T ft. Serocee – Manabadman
Noob & Brodinski – Peanuts Club
Lauren Flax ft Sia – You’ve Changed (War Games Rmx)
Mumdance & Brodinski – Eurostarr (Zombie Disco Squad Rmx)

The mix is downloadable here:

ISA GT PRE-CARNIVAL MIX 2009 by Daniel Haaksman

Sly + Robbie are the rhyhtm back bone of Jamaican music and if you consider that they supposedly played on more than 200.000 (yes, that´s two hundred thousand) tracks, from original JA Rockers style recordings with the Mighty Diamonds to the Compass Point studios where they recorded with Tom Tom Club and Grace Jones, it´s evident that rhythm is where Sly + Robbie are playing bass and drums. One of their most exciting solo-works however was the “Stripped Down To The Bone” album on Island Records, released in 1999, produced by Howie B (who was to the 90s what Dave “Switch” Taylor is to the 00s). From this album “Superthruster” was taken, still a sizzling hot tune with a Manga inspired video. Lazer shooting cyborg Jamaicans – err, isnt there a current project that is using similar images?

“Rap Das Armas” final stage: The self-entitled “King Of Mallorca”, German trash-crooner Jürgen Drews (62), has caught on the irresistible melody of Cidinho E Doca´s “Rap Das Armas” and turned it into Germany´s balearic summer hit . “Parapapapapaprika ich fall um” – can it get any worse?

See the video to Daniel Haaksman´s “Kid Conga” feat. MC Miltinho debut here:

Our favourite Bavarian Soca punks, SCHLACHTHOFBRONX, will release their album on Munich´s Disko B records soon. As a preview on the album the “Belly Full Of Pills” EP will be released end of August, including collaborations with South African chief cribwalkers Slush Puppy Kids, a.k.a. Spoek “Sweat X” Mathambo and Bigspace.

Download a minimix with some beats from the EP as well as other exclusive Baviarian bounce material.
Here´s the link:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?l0xmzknf4dm

Watch out for the Schlachthofbronx remix of my track “Jesus” feat. Tati Quebra Barraco, which will be released on the “Gostoso Remix” EP, out early September.

Big shout out to Adia for letting me know about this. Another subgenre of hip hop that i can obsess over for a couple of months! Apparently Im late on this , since its actually something that’s been around in LA for a couple of years already. My excuse is that I’m not an African American high school kid living in Urban Los Angeles. If I was though, I would no doubt be wearing lime green skinny jeans with SBs or Chucks and a loud neon tee trying to “jerk”… to be honest I can see kids from South East Asia getting into this; the apparel is favourable plus we like doing group dances. All major labels putting out Jerk records in that part of the world please send me a cheque for this piece of valuable marketing advice.

I’ve heard maybe a dozen Jerk tunes, it sounds to me like a mixture of hyphy and snap music (nice!) Apart from the New Boyz “You’re a Jerk” in the video above, here’s a couple that I really like. Especially that Clothes off Movement tune, the way she says “I can pull a n!!ga h-way better than u can..” SEXY!

Young Rocky – Kicks real active

Clothes Off Movement – Better

Oh, and since Jerk is as much about the dance as it is about the fashion and the music, just go to youtube and type in “jerkin”, you will find amateur dance vids of this style aplenty!

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I was at a Toy Art exhibition the other day and fell in love with the Enid doll pictured above, which in real life must stand at about 12″ tall. Enid is of course from the very wonderful “ghost world” graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. In the film adaptation, also penned by Clowes, she is played to great effect by American Beauty’s Thora Birch, who makes her unbearably cynical but bewitchingly sexy at the same time.

Interesting interview with Daniel Clowes here.

One of the best bags to come out of Italy lately…

A great piece of pyschsploitation with the debut single from Fabio. Released in 1968 “Lindo sonho delirante” (beautiful delirious dream) went completely against the grain of the Jovem Guarda, with its innocent paens to love, and embraces the times  with hip daddio Fabio continuously telling us he’s going to take a trip today on his magic carpet etc. The single was a complete flop and is thus worth a fortune nowadays. He went on to make an album at the beginning of the 70s with some minor brazilian prog players, which is apparently half decent.

lindo sonho delirante-lsd

This is another example of an adapted cover version, but unlike the Wanderlea track, this one sticks to the theme of the original. Os Baobás were generally a cover band who sang songs in English, though they didn’t do Beatles stuff which was the craze at the time (1968). They are more known for the b-side of the single pictured above which was “Pintado de Preto” or “Paint it black” as we know it. They also released a version of the Turtles “Happy Together” which is nowhere near as exciting as this track.

pintada de preto-paint it black

more next week.

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DJ Amazing Clay send us this video of him banging out his anthemic “Montagem Bonanza” live on his MPC:

long time, no post…sorry! Anyway I’ve got a good one today.

One area that has been neglected in Brazilian crate digging circles, or until recently that is, is the pre-tropicalia psyche scene. This scene is at its most derivative a straight copy of the North American nuggets garage rock scene, which is in itself pretty amazing as the dictatorship was in full swing at the time, so I can imagine the little outside culture that was coming through would have been enthusiastically  swooped upon by da youth. But there always a few bands or just a few tracks that have that famous Brazilian musical cannabalism, Os Mutantes, for example, were what happens when a Beatles cover band goes it alone. 

This scene was actually an extension of the iê-iê-iê movement and is the missing link between the jovem guarda and the Tropicalia movements. Jovem Guarda was a pretty insipid movement and produced some dreary rock ’n roll, though there are some really swinging corkers you have to sift through a lot of ”incy wincy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini” type covers.

So the example I have posted for you is by Wanderléa, who was one the most famous singers of the Jovem Guarda (young guard) and here she’s covering “Pushing too hard” by the Seeds, it’s a great version as you can really hear her local carioca (rio) accent with those phlegmy Rs as she belts out the (completely different) lyrics in Portuguese.

In fact this is a trend that has always existed in pop music in Brazil, take the tune of a current hit and sing totally different lyrics in Portuguese over the top, it’s a trend that continued in the eighties with rock band Capital Inicial covering Iggy’s “The passenger”, continued with Baile funk and even up till recently with Seu Jorge and Ana Carolina doing “the blower’s daughter” to pretty tortuous effect.

anyway here is Wanderlea:

vou lhe contar (pushing too hard)

I did want to do a compilation of this stuff for a label but the logistics are pretty impossible as most of it came out on labels like Phillips whose back catalogue now probably belongs to BMG/Sony or something, and would need a hefty advance. However I was reading this the other day about this guy Joel who’s got a super-hip record store in New York and is going to self-release “Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas: Tropicalista Psychedelic Masterpieces, 1967–1976″ a collection that covers some of this scene. Self-release probably means grey area bootleg, but good luck to him. I, however, will be posting some more of this stuff during the week as I have a shitload of it on my hard-drive.

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Man Recordings hasnt put out any guitar based music yet, but in terms of energy and power , some of the Man Rec tracks could easily match the level of some heavy metal tunes. One of our favourite metal groups is Suicidal Tendencies, and whenever we get pissed off about some blogs posting our tracks in 320kps without any permission, we have to let off steam banging out Melvins, Pantera, Slayer, Metallica – or Suicidal in the Man Rec office.

Btw just last week this dude yawnone@gmail.com from Geneva posted three tracks of my new EP in finest 320 kps MP3 quality on his shitty “A Sound A Day Keeps Melancholy Away” blog – I understandably wasnt very amused. After I asked him to remove the tracks – as labels like ours depend on selling their music – he didnt even bother to apologise. If you know this dude or come across him, please give him a pop.