Just found this cool little video explaining a little more behind the production techniques and history of Funk Carioca. It deals with the origin of the Tamborzao beat, you know, the one that goes 'boom-chak-chak-boom-boom-chak'. Okay so its not the most riveting thing in the world, it doesn't feature enough girls getting busy and the history of 'beats' is generally a geeky thing, whatever, the Tamborzao beat features in 99% of Carioca songs and makes girls wiggle like they got ants in their pants, so watch and learn.

DJ Rideon hits the spot with this one.....Check out the Sany Pitbull track a few in...chops Mr. Brown up! Stoops....

DJ Rideon - Ghetto 808 Mix

Bass Check
DJ Rideon: This My Shit
Os Hawaianos: Vem Kikando Rmx
DJ Sany Pitbull feat DJ Woody: I Feel Good (James Brown Funk Carioca Mix)
DJ Cabide: Montagem Baile Lotadão
Menor do Chapa: Vida Loka (DJ 17 Pistola Mix)
Bomba Funk 2: Aquecimento 2006
Bomba Funk 2: Mega Doido
DJ Rideon: Fuck Me Baby
Gaiola das Popozudas: Late Que Eu To Passando
Os Ousados: Passinho do Basquete
DJ Sandrinho: Pump It Up
DJ Sandrinho: Serrote Funk (Cleck Cleck Boom)
Bonde Neurose: 100% Neurose 2006
DJ Sandrinho vs. Justin Timberlake: Sexy Back
Puto Prata: Sai La Daqui
Buraka Som Sistema feat. Petty: Wawaba
Luky Gomes: Patiri
Leo Canhoto & Robertinho: Chumbo Quente (DJ Edgar Rmx)
DJ Sandrinho: Pump Friction
SD Boyz: Uh! Uh! Tá Tomado
95 South: Wet’n’Wild (DJ Laz Booty Bounce Mix)
DJ Assault: Sex On The Beach

Show me the person who doesn't want a AKAI after watching these.


dj felipe carvalho does it proper.....

According to a very knowledgeable Brazilian I recently met Baile Funk superstar Edu-k wrote popozuda to mock the funk scene... Best bit of satire I ever heard......
This isn't the vid to Popozuda but the one to sexomatic cos I like it better

Dear MC Sabrina,

I am writing to let you know I love you and I love your music. I often dream about us meeting, maybe getting together in Rio on the hilltop, I would look longingly into your beautiful brown eyes whilst you rapped violently in my ear like a crazed beast. Your gravelly tones get me through these dark days, your dancefloor power moves provide entertainment in my otherwise lonely and empty life. I love you Sabs, can I call you Sabs? Til then darling......

Your forever,

Zombie Disco Squad x x x

My excitement for baile has been subsiding recently, apart from the Bonde Do Role stuff (which lets face it, is a tame and altogther more poppy version of true funk), I havent heard much that really grabbed me. So I sifted through the 'glamourosa' on one of my favourite funk sites and found these jems. Enjoy.

DJ Luciano Oliviera - Funk Carioca (Remix)
DJ Helinho - Dando Gueroei

We asked our dear old mates Tetine for an all time greatness Top Ten baile funk tracks...Eli got back to us inbetween gigs out in Europe. Go fetch....

Cavalo de Pau - Bonde faz Gostoso
Feira de Acari - MC Batata
Tcheca Tcheca Cheia de Sebo - Bonde Das Bad Girls
Break Da Caveira - Bonde Neurose
Microondas - Rafa
Cerol Na Mao - Bonde do Tigrao
Picatchu - Vanessinha do Picatchu
Alpinista - Deize Tigrona
Cartao Magnetico - Tati Quebra Barraco
Vai Danada - Gaiola das Popozudas

We asked DJ Gorky of the fantastic 'rock-carioca' band Bonde Do Role to give us a top ten tunes of the year...here is his response.

* let's make love... - css
* emergency! - passions
* w.a.y.u.h (SMD remix) - rapture
* hustler - simian mobile disco
* her - kissy sell out
* waters of nazareth (erol remix) - justice
* the fallen (justice remix) - franz ferdinand
* dun dudun - para one
* knock 'em out - lily allen
* bongo song - zongamin

Thanks Gorky.....

Really nice history of Rio Funk

Are U Da Bomb (Music Video)

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Its what we were all thinking...Pase Rock gets contemporary.

Pase Rock & Spank Rock - Lindsay Lohan’s revenge

Next year will see these dudes blow....Isla and Jared from Brooklyn are 'Purple Crush'. A meeting of styles ranging from Bmore to Annie Lennox. Having just won $10.000 worth of equipment in some American competition and touring with Gutter Broadcast favourite 'Curtis Vodka' they are onto big things. Catch a 12" out from them next year on 'Nine 2 Five' Recordings.

They have also just released a mix to get you wet. Cop dat.

wow

The amount of club dances up on You Tube at the moment is crazy.....you got the 'wu-tang', the 'matrix', the 'one leg up' and now the 'thizz'....

we're working on the 'zombie'.....

That dude right there....thats Edu K, cold flossing in '84 with his band. Nowadays he can be found making the hottest carioca with Daniel Haaksman of Man Recordings. Edu and Daniel put on a crazy set at Rio Rox the other week...highlights include a friend of a friend getting attacked by Edu K's hot, sweaty, hairy armpit during 'Popozuda'. Oh my days.

Edu K - Sex 0 Matic (Bonde Do Role Remix)

NEW MIX!

We asked superstar Dj Sinden to hit us up with a top ten. wow


Sinden's Tip Top Ten

1) Mekon Feat Roxanne Shante - Yes Yes Y'All (Sinden Baile Funk Remix)(Wall Of Sound)New remix from me with kinda cheap horns and synths (thats a plus in my book!)

2) Scottie B - Paul Simon Joint (Hollertronix CDR) Call Me Al (remember the vid with Chevy Chase?!) gets a Baltimore Club update. Its pure heat and gyals love it too!

3) Count Of Monte Cristal - Rocky (Counterfeet CDR) Get a proper jackin house groove, add a rave breakdown a bit of baltimore club and an Eye Of The Tiger break. You just got the most retarded club record for a minute.

4) Hi Jack - Hi Jackin (Herves F*ck F*ck Remix) (On The Brink Recordings) This remix lives up to its name. When I heard the bassline on this jackin houser it i couldnt stop sayin F*ck either. Big!

5) Jim Jones Feat Tego Calderon - We Fly High Remix (Koch) Big NY hip hop record just got bigger with this reggaeton remix. Tego straight kills this beat.

6) Rod Lee - Lets Git It (Unruly Records CDR) "Where James Bond at?" announces Rod over a 007 synth breakdown taken from this forthcoming EP on Unruly. This has got them big baltimore club horns to make the crowd get buck!

7) Phones - Sharpen The Knives (CDR) This hectic electro track just builds and builds and builds. Future dance music from Mr Epworth.

8) DJ Dede - Tribes (CDR) Basically, if Timbaland went to Rio's Favelas and made Brazilian beats this could be the outcome. They call this stuff 'Future Funk' in Brazil (crap title i know)

9) Merkston - Good Old Days Featuring Ghetto (Adamantium) Throwback style grime tune about reminiscing about them good ole days. Beat sounds like its trapped in 1999. That aint a bad thing - this is real fresh!

10) The Cure - The Walk (Everything Remix) (Elektra) Sounds like a remix but is in fact a re-recording made 7 years after the original. More electro than usual output -i cant front on The Cure. Ever.

When we're not colour matching our clothes to our Myspace page (how gangsta is that! Fiddy would be proud!), we're searching for Toto t-shirts on the web. My search ended up at this dope spot....quite a lot of stock and for cheap too. Just promise me you will stay away from the played 'AC/DC', 'Motorhead' and 'Maiden' usuals (I'm almost embarassed to admit I like 'The Ramones' now godammit)....head for the 'The The', 'Tina Turner and' 'Beastie Boys' garms, now relax and watch your game grow.

Sany Pitbull getting loose on his MPC at Rio Rox, thanks to Sinden and Elle J for a fantastic night of music and good times.

Tetine smashed it at our last 93 Feet East gig. Check out their new release 'L.I.C.K My Favela' out now on Soul Jazz. Buy it and others here.