We´re going temporarily corporate this Saturday when half of the Brasilian Man Rec family will be in town for a special party you shouldn´t miss: CSS, Mixhell, DJ Edgar and myself will celebrate a vodka´d-out Electric Carnival at the Energie Forum Berlin. If you want to join, be quick: We give away thirty spots on the guestlist from now. Just hit us up on : office [at] manrecordings.com. Até Sabado!
We are proud to announce that the video for “L.O.V.E. Banana” by João Brasil feat. Lovefoxxx just had more than 100.000 views combined on the three channels that host the video. The song still gets heavy radio airplay in Germany and Austria and now catches up being aired on BBC Radio 1 and Radio Nova. Still sounds like summer hit!
We re-edited the original video from the directors of Hardcuore studio in Rio De Janeiro for the Daniel Haaksman Remix, check it out:
See photos of the “making of”, courtesy by Hardcuore:
In the second download this week we offer Brazil’s answer to Girl Talk, Joao Brasil and his latest album “Big Forbidden Dance”. Rio’s Joao Brasil is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who had a minor hit with his tune “Baranga”, which basically translates as slag/whore-like.
The title of the album”Big Forbidden Dance”, literally translates as “Baile Proibidão”, though this has nothing to do with the proibidão genre of Baile Funk. It does however, have everything to do with Girl-Talk-like mash ups, in fact it is the exact same thing, lots of small parts of familiar material, stitched together to make a very danceable whole. Differently from Girl Talk, with his tendency to mix hardcore rapping with anthemic college rock to create frat-friendly party pieces, João makes collages out of old and new dance tracks all held together with the batidão of baile funk, so you get Michael jackson rubbing shoulders with Mylo and Justice with a dash of Nirvana!.
There’s an interesting essay here dissecting Girl Talk, which is well worth the (lengthy) read, and while there’s nothing very clever or very meta in João Brasil you will find a lot of stoopid funny party bombs – enjoy!
Download: (includes songs, cover and samples list)
Big Forbidden Dance João Brasil
To give you a taster here is a great remix João did for CSS.
