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
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.
Mashups? “Oh well..”, you might say. True, there´s been way too many mediocre to clueless mashups trying to fuse what simply isnt matching – beatwise, harmonically, stylistically. However, once in a while there´s some true gems. And ever since the term “mashup” came to surface around 2001, you once in a while find tracks where you just dont get how well two formerly different tracks can blend into each other. So here´s a new series on the Man Recorder: The Mash Up Classics.
I did my first mashup in 2001 and I dare to say that it soon became a hit. My blend of George Michael´s “Faith” with Missy Eliott´s “Get Your Freak On” resulted in “Yougottahavefreak” and it became one of the first tracks that put the term “Bastard Pop” on the map. Bizarrely, Erol Alkan, under his Kurtis Rush guise, had the very same idea, and put out his version on a now much sought after 12″ white label. I flabberghastedly found out about his version reading in “The Face” magazine, and decided to put it out on a hand printed CD-R in an edition of 50 (distributed by Colette in Paris). Later, Alkan dissed me for stealing his idea, but I swear until today: I made it up myself, it was an idea that was in the air and we just happened to make it the same time. My friends Alexandliane – now infamous for their music videos for bands like Bloc Party, Scissor Sisters, Armand Van Helden, Ting Tings or Deichkind – were so impressed by the mix, that they made their very first music video for my very first mashup. P.S. The video was shot in a Country + Western club in Berlin-Lichtenberg.
Watch the video here:
Download the mix here:
