Worth checking out this fan site of the covers of Elenco discos by in-house designer César Vilela. Some beautiful looking covers from what was an excellent label, putting out the best of Bossa Nova at that time. It’s interesting that in an interview talking about the covers he mentions the fact that he had to compete with the multinational releases of that time in the record stores and the simplification of the covers was a way of calling attention to them.

“Pobum Coco” still causes a lot of mayhem on the dancefloors, see this live video from UK DJ Mr.Paul:

What´s up with baile funk these days? In Rio, there´s a culture war going on. The new major is trying to shut down baile funk culture across the city, criminalizing any un-licensed party (err, the majority of them). On the other side, there´s the the Apafunk association (Associação Dos Profissionais E Amigos Do Funk ) who is in the process of establishing funk as an officially valorized and established form of Rio´s urban culture. In between, there´s the music, and here´s a few tracks that recently made the circuit in Rio´s bailes:

DJ Isaac 22 – Montagem Aquecimento Do Pimp
Sandrinho DJ – Hoje Vai Dar Merda feat Mr. Catra
Dennis DJ – No Sofa feat Tati Quebra Barraco
Phabyo DJ – Carimba A Bundinha No Chao feat. Mc Magrao

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This gotta be the best film of 2010. And Daft Punk are doing the soundtrack. Man, I´m so excited to see this….

My track “Kid Conga” feat. MC Miltinho is getting a lot of love these days. When Fairtilizer approached us to iniate the “Kid Conga Remix Contest” two weeks ago, the love for the track started to increase even more. We counted more than sixty (!) contributions from all around the world when the remix contest submission deadline ended yesterday. I carefully listened to all remixes, and in the end I divided all contributions in four categories picking the two best remixes in each particular style. Standing out were in the categories:

Big room bangers: SobEr, DJ P@app
Minimal: Juke Boyz, Daniel Farley
Ghetto bass: Dirty Monkeez, Kappy
Global beats: Bert On Beats, Tim Turbo

It was hard to decide on the ultimate finalist, but in the end there can only be one winner and it´s…….ramtatata: BERT ON BEATS a.k.a. DJ Critikal

His remix impressed me the most. The “Bert On Beats Remix” is a Kuduro inspired rework which is well mixed and engineered, it has a fantastically programmed half time break-part, plus the beat is bananas and the bassline is just killing it. Congratulations, Bert, err Critikal!

Many thanks to all contributors and to Fairtilizer, you can check out all remixes here.

And here´s the winner remix:

Dj Cliffy from london brazilophile club Batmacumba has put together the collection Black Rio 2 original samba soul 1968-1981, this is a sequel to Black Rio, an excellent compilation on Strut which managed to introduce Brazil’s wealth of samba summery rare grooves to  western punters. This collection promises more of the same, many already familiar from house partys and black bailes if you reside in Brazil, but a nice funky selection all the same. If you are patient, you can still find these tracks on vinyl in Brazillian second hand record stores, if you look outside the big urban centres where the knowledgeable record collectors are, you can pick them up cheaply, although in pretty scruffy covers. Anyway Cliffy seems to know his bananas and courtesy of The Fader has done a half hour promo mix to sample the album.

Download mix here.

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Our Porto Alegre man DJ Chernobyl, producer of Bonde Do Role and head of Comunidade Jiu Jitsu, just did this remix for L.A. based Japanese baile funk queen Tigarah.

Download it/ listen to it here:

Space Travel DJ CHERNOBYL REMIX by Daniel Haaksman

Edu K`s “Popozuda Rock n´Roll” keeps parties burning across the globe and now it has been sampled by Austrian rapper Skero for a whole new song called “Kabinenparty” (”Cabin´s party”). It features our dear Joyce Muniz MC freestylin´Brasilian stylee where Edu regularly churns out a Slayer inspired guitar solo. If you´re not familiar with German, don´t worry – I also dont understand a single word of what comes out of Skero´s mouth.

If you´re a follower of this blog, you know we at Man Rec are big UK Funky followers. At last, London brings us the dancefloor heat we´ve been yearning for years, with riddims full of culture and bass that nourish from the “hardcore continuum” ( Stush & Hard House Banton – We Nuh Run (Sirens Riddim) by fabric

Our beloved Brasilian chief rocker Edu K is back in Europe for a couple of shows, catch him on the decks at this fine places:

05.09.2009 Berlin (GER), Hotel Michelberger
11.09.2009 London (GB), Cargo
12.09.2009 Porto (PT), Villa
24.09.2009 Köln (GER), Cancun
25.09.2009 Mülheim an der Ruhr (GER), Mazine Store
26.09.2009 Ulm (GER), Sucasa
02.10.2009 Paris (FR), Bartofar
03.10.2009 Bern (CH), Bonsoir
09.10.2009 Berlin (GER), WMF
10.10.2009 Delitzsch (GER), Altes Ziehwerk
16.10.2009 Zürich (CH), Hive
23.10.2009 Amsterdam (AT), Flex
24.10.2009 Marseille (FR), Fiesta De Suds

My Gostoso Remix EP has arrived yesterday at the Man Rec office on wax and it shines like a small sun when put on a turntable, yay! The vinyl release includes remixes by Edu K, DJ Rob 3, João Brasil, Schlachthof Bronx and Consistent. The digital release has extra remixes by Zombie Disco Squad and Sharkslayer.

Edu K delivers – as a world debut – a Minimal Techno meets Forro interpretation of “Kid Conga”- Imagine Brasil’s Northen power folk meeting up in a Berlin techno club. For the same track Chicago’s ghetto don Rob Threezy brings the big bass drums in his DJ Rob 3 remix, which will bang any Ghetto floor. Rio De Janeiro’s hot new talent João Brasil twists “Kid Conga” into a Tecno Brega track, the sizzling new sound of Brasil’s Amazon area.

ARTIST: DANIEL HAAKSMAN
TITLE: GOSTOSO REMIX
CAT. NR.: MAN 042
VINYL RELEASE DATE: SEPT 4TH 2009
DIGITAL RELEASE DATE: SEPT 11TH 2009

With names such as Zombie Disco Suqad, Edu K, Sharkslayer, DJ Rob 3, Schlachthofbronx, Consistent and João Brasil, the „Gostoso Remix“ EP brings seven hot remixes, perfect for the dancefloor.

DANIEL HAAKSMAN

Edu K delivers – as a world debut – a Minimal Techno meets Forro interpretation of “Kid Conga”- Imagine Brasil’s Northen power folk meeting up in a Berlin techno club. For the same track Chicago’s ghetto don Rob Threezy brings the big bass drums in his DJ Rob 3 remix, which will bang any Ghetto floor. Rio De Janeiro’s hot new talent João Brasil twists “Kid Conga” into a Tecno Brega track, the sizzling new sound of Brasil’s Amazon area.

Sharkslayer from Helsinki produced a block rocking remix of the anthemic “Pobum Coco”, which already set many dancefloors on fire. Zombie Disco Squad reworked “Senta Senta Mais Uma Vez” in their trademark style – in which the drugged out ecstasy of Berlin’s Panoramabar melts into the frenzy of a Rio baile funk party.

Munich’s Schlachthofbronx, who reworked “Jesus” featuring Tati Quebra Barraco and created a rough and rugged interpretation – call it Bavaria Soca Dancehall.

„Deixa Tocar“ by Berlin’s Consistent (of Frontroom Records fame). Their remix picked the original’s horns and mounted them on an irresistable, French house resembling, dancefloor filler, which already produced hands up in the air wherever played.

Seven remixes with styles that range from Disco House to Tecno Brega to Bmore Beats – the kaleidoscopic sound of Daniel Haaksman gets the appropriate poly-stylistic treatment on „Gostoso Remix“.

The full tracklist is:

DANIEL HAAKSMAN
GOSTOSO REMIX

1. KID CONGA (EDU K MINIMAL FORRO REMIX)
2. KID CONGA (DJ ROB 3 REMIX)
3. KID CONGA (JOÃO BRASIL TECNO BREGA MIX)
4. POBUM COCO (SHARKSLAYER REMIX)
5. SENTA SENTA MAIS UMA VEZ (ZOMBIE DISCO SQUAD REMIX)
6. JESUS FEAT. TATI (SCHLACHTHOFBRONX REMIX)
7. DEIXA TOCAR (CONSISTENT REMIX)

DJ QUOTES:

FEADZ: „Yeah! Many tracks to play on this release!“
SINDEN : „Great remix package, power moves!“
DJ YODA: „Yes, feeling the Edu K Remix“
THUNDERHEIST: „Great release, Edu K is my fave!“
MIXHELL: „Amazing!“
TOMBOY: „Sharkslayer remix is perfect for me!“
MISSILL: „Sharkslayer remix and João Brasil remixes – love em!“
JOE RANSOM: „Loving the Edu K remix“
TITTSWORTH: „Dope“
MOWGLI: „Gostoso! Full support!“
DJ TOSHIO MATSUURRA / UFO: „The Edu K Remix is Brasilian Tech Samba – great!“

The EP will be released both on vinyl and digital Friday, 11th of September 2009. Grab the limited edition coloured vinyls while they last.

There’s nothing more I like listening to than dub reggae in the summer time, especially now that I’m hearing a lot more dubstep than I used to, its always nice to go back to the O.G. sound. Of all the big names in dub, I think I like Augustus Pablo the most, because I find that he got the best melodies.

My favourite tune from him is “East of the River Nile”. I love the Chinese horn riff, and Augustus is just off the hook on the melodica. In fact, I read that it was Augustus was the one who made the melodica popular in reggae music; the instrument was used primarily for teaching kids about music in Jamaican schools.

Anyways, check the video to see the master at work!

Oh, and here’s an Augustus Pablo tune that I think Santigold sampled for “Shove it”

Augustus Pablo – King Tubby meets rockers uptown

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