Here’s a little video that I put together for El Toro! Hope you guys enjoy it. My 8 year old cousin finds it hilarious.
Oh, and since it was Chinese New Year last week, we at Man Recordings have decided to give away a little present for you all – the fantastic Seiji rmx of El Toro!
Beware+Motorpitch “El Toro (Seiji Remix)” by MANRECORDINGS
The El Toro! EP is out now in Man Recordings and available on Beatport, Itunes, JunoDownload, Zero Inch etc.
João Brasil´s eager every-day-a-mashup project “365″is still going on strong. Check out the best mixes of the last days below, perfect for Carnival usage, all mashup are heavily sambafied!!
BOB DYLAN VS OLODUM
Blowing in Pelô (João Brasil) by lontramusic
OLODUM VS. NIRVANA
Smells pra dançar (João Brasil) by lontramusic
BEYONCE VS FERNANDO
Batuque single ladies (João Brasil) by lontramusic
Computer Juice is Riton and Seiji. I like the tune, and I like the video. It makes me want to go out and smash stuff up in an animated world too. Look out for Seiji (he’s the pineapple in the video) EP on MAN Recordings later this year.
Just back from my internet/cell phone free holidays and I see everyone’s been posting 2009 lists and I can’t resist posting mine. However, it’s more album orientated and less dancefloor driven than the others, which accurately reflects my year…
Dengue Fever - Sleepwalking through the Mekong
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
DJ Sprinkles aka Terre Thaemlitz - Midtown 120 blues
Position Normal - s/t cassette
Fever Ray - Fever ray
Steve Hauschildt – Critique of the Beautiful
DJ Hell - Teufelswerk
Céu – Vagarosa
Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch) soundtrack
Cidadão Instigado - UHUUU!
King Midas Sound - Waiting for You
There you go, dozens more that I can’t think of right now. Happy new year to y’all.
Friend of Man recs, João Brasil, has kindly left an EP of brand new mash-ups for download here. the line up is as follows with some truly unholy alliances:
“Poker De Floor” (Major Lazer X Lady Gaga)
“Popozuda Dreams” (Edu K X Beyonce)
“Short Dick Caetano” (20 Fingers X Caetano)
“We will rain you” (Calvin Harris X Queen)
I have recently been listening to King midas Sound ” Waiting for You“, a lovely record that at times sounds like Maxinquaye era Tricky meets Burial with gluttonous amounts of bass, and the type of album that could only come out on Hyperdub (quite a year for them).
If you read the music press, you will know that the mind behind the music of King Midas is in fact Kevin Martin, aka the Bug, purveyor of heavy heavy pummeling hardness, I usually have a hard time getting through the Bug albums, but King Midas is rivetting.
Listening to the album had me thinking about Kevin and how only a city like London could create such a musician, in fact in this interview he did for XLR8R magazine he talks about how much London has “shaped his musical world”.
I know Kevin from the late eighties, he had an infamous free noise/ jazz hardcore band called God, and I briefly did film projections for their live shows, relentless car crashes, that kind of Ballardian thing to accompany the bruising big band attack that Kevin orchestrated. I moved onto sunnier climes but I’ve been following his career with interest.
London in the late eighties had everything that would form our musical world, we had all the US noise bands coming over and doing amazing shows, mainly the Butthole Surfers, Swans, the first Sonic youth shows, Big Black, and at the same time On-U sound was at its peak, creating the noise dub alliance that noiseniks could dance to. Warehouse raves were everywhere every weekend, mix this up with groundbreaking shows by Sun Ra at ULU, Ornette Coleman, Glenn Branca and you can see where Kevin’s head was at.
Kevin had a record label for a while, Pathalogical Records, full of sonic nastiness, but there was one fantastic, underrated album that he released by Terminal Cheesecake in 1990 called Angels in Pigtails, the groups most fully-realised album that managed to combine full on rock noise, dubby production and Can-like jamming – highly recommended.
For me, it’s interesting to see how that mixture of jazz experimentation, dub and noise turned out 20 years on. There’s also a King Midas mix containing some of their influences to go with the albums release over at Fact Magazine, get it here.
WILDLIFE! releases his new EP “JUMBIE” with remixes from a whole bunch of Man Recordings artists such as Schlachthofbronx, Mixhell, Dj Beware & Motorpitch and Edu K. Once more WILDLIFE! highlights the tropic’s darker side of life with this dark, percussion driven smasher to keep caribbean ghosts busy on any given dancefloor.
Our homie WILDLIFE! (AKA the Swiss Johnny Depp) is a generous man, which is why you can get the WILDLIFE – Jumbie (Beware & Motorpitch Remix) for free here.
Be sure to check out the rest of the EP, out now on Beatport
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Man Recordings and Fairtilizer bring you the 3rd Man Recordings remix contest. This edition
features Ku Bo , the new project by Vienna bass-meister Stereotyp.
“Tsu Bo” features Ghanian-Austrian singer Anbuley on the microphone and presents the sexy and dubbed out tropical-tec for which Ku Bo has become famous for. “Tsu Bo” feat. Anbuley was recently featured on the upcoming “Fabric Live 49″ Mix-CD by Buraka Som Sistema and is considered one of the hottest Afro tunes of the moment. Early December we´ll release the Ku Bo Remix EP (Man 043) featuring remixes by DJ Manaia, Batida, Bert On Beats, Lazy Ants, Flore, Robot Koch and Daniel Haaksman. Until the remix EP will be released, you have the chance to remix the original version of “Tsu Bo”.
THE RULES
1. Listen to the orginal here:
2. Download the parts here (the track is 140 BPM) : Ku Bo Remix Contest Folder
3. Remix the song the way you like.
4. Upload your remix on Fairtilzer and name it “Tsu Bo” and your remix name and add “Man Recordings Remix 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).
5. The winner will be selected by Man Recordings.
Prize: The best remix will be released in digital format on Man Recordings + gets bonus goodies package by Man Recordings and Fairtilizer. Bert On Beats, the last winner in the Man Recordings Remix contest for Daniel Haaksman´s “Kid Conga” even scored a record deal with Man Recordings and will release his debut EP on Man in spring 2010!
Submission deadline: Dec 1st, 2009.
I like it when good rappers rap. I miss stuff like this. Sure, its all a bit staged and produced, but its still good.
I feel bad that we never did wrote anything about Mr. Magic, the legendary radio host of “Rap Attack” who passed away recently from a fatal heart attack.
Here’s a tribute track that the Juice Crew(Biz Markie, Roxanne Shante, Craig G….) did in memory of him. Biz Markie’s verse at the end is so childlike and simple, it touched me the most.
We just got the okay from Diplo to post Ku Bo´s remix for Spanish Mad Decent artist El Guincho. This remix has been a steady part of my DJ sets for a while now, it´s about time it gets played by more peeps. File it under tropical tec.
Grab it from here:
Sacal is a dancehall MC from the state of Paraíba, in the North East of Brazil. More specifically he’s from the city of João Pessoa, a beautiful coastal city that for some reason has a reputation for reggae and is full of reggae lovers. Ask a random young person from João Pessoa what they do at the weekend, and they will probably reply that they sit around in beach bars listening to reggae. Sacal has been a name that has been around for a while now. He started off as a Drum and bass DJ in 1999, then started an underground rap outfit “Eu e Meus Amigos” where he was DJ and producer and has gradually moved into dancehall, but if you listen it`s dancehall with a particular northeastern Brazil flava. The programming and the production could only have come from the North East of brazil.
he has made his new promo CD available for free download, and you can find it here. If you want more, there’s loads of MP3s available at his blog.
Here’s a taster of the Sacal sound, a jegue by the way is a mule: “Gangsta Jegue”
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If you want to hear more Brazilian dancehall go to this link and you will find a 100% selection put together by Jimmy Luv.
I know its nothing new, but I been going through some old tunes and have been digging out some of the old gems.
I am obsessed by this. Definitely my fave rediscovered tune of the last two weeks.t. I can listen to the loop all day, in fact I am listening for the third time todayThe claps, the “huh huh”, the funky guitar, the snare rolls and last but not least the nice ladies saying “its magic!!!” Good stuff. And good stuff should be shared, so here u go.
The show above will be playing my town Friday evening and I will be there. It’s a great line-up that could really go off or be a complete flop. São Paulo Underground are key players in the experimental – almost improv scene and Nana Vasconcelos is, of course, the renowned percussionist. The weakest link in this line up are perhaps Mamelo sound system. These rappers started off really promisingly, in the early noughties releasing a debut on the then consistently interesting Y Brasil label. The album was a mixture of left field hip-hop and Brasil funk Jams a la check your head, ill communication Beasties with contributions from Nação Zumbi, DJ marky and Afrika Bambaataa. The album was a classic collective effort, I then bought their second album when it came out and they had become a bog-standard 2 djs and producer team, removing anything that was interesting about them in the first place – which certainly wasn’t their rapping!
a sample from the debut album below, featuring samba hip-hop rapper Rappin’ hood, who was flavour of the month about 5 years ago and seems to have disappeared, though I did see him a while ago on TV advertising broad-band.
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
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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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.
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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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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Why am I so crap at posting stuff on the blog? Why is that I always have to wait till Big Dan Haaksman writes and complains about my lack of posts do I then actually write a post. Why? why? WHY?!?!?
I think it’s because I’m shy to share with the world my humble opinion. Plus the fact that at the moment, I don’t do much else than radio, gig, studio and the occasional game of ping pong.
Anyways…
I’ve done a couple of mixtapes for the beautiful and talented MPHO. MPHO is a singer from Brixton, previously best know for her work with the likes of Bugz in the Attic and Coldcut. She is now coming out with her debut album “Pop Art” on Parlophone/Wall of Sound. MPHO’s amazing voice and incredible song writing make the album an irrestible pop album. The first single “Box n Locks” is produced by Switch and has a sample from Echo Beach by “Martha and the Muffins”. They also got Armand Van Helden, Herve and Crazy Cousins to remix the track. My favourite is still the original though.
and here’s a link to the mixtapes that we put together for MPHO
Enjoy!
Sorry its been a while… blame it on radio, Spring Festival (too much partying with Roundtable Knights, Motorpitch, Mixhell, Sinden …) , remixes, mixtapes and hay fever…
To make up for it, here’s a brand new bootleg of Michel Cleis “La Mezcla” that Motorpitch and I did. Big shout out to Toy Selectah for lacing me with the original Cumbia samples of the tune!
Hope u enjoy!
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