You can finally get your grubby hands on Diplo & Leandro HBL’s baile funk movie Favela on Blast. You can download it for just $5 dollars, or get the awesome Brazilian Mad Decent t-shirt for a lil bit more. HERE!>
Posts Tagged as ‘Baile Funk’
July 27, 2010
Mind Over Matter
This is absolutely HUGE! Uber-eclectic UK producer and Mr. Bongo stalwart Greymatter has produced a stone-cold killer of a track with Funk Carioca queen Deize Tigrona. I can’t really wrap my head around what Eu Fumo even is, but there’s definitely elements of dubstep and kuduro beats in there, as well as that unmistakeable Baile [...]
May 26, 2010
Favela on Blast is finally (nearly) here!
Diplo & Leandro HBL’s excellent Baile Funk documentary, Favela on Blast, is finally getting a full DVD and digital release via Mad Decent on July 20th. Plus, for a week from July 9th, you’ll be able to watch the whole thing online at pitchfork tv. About time, too. → Check Nossa’s interview with Diplo right hurrrr. → [...]
August 21, 2009
Lets Get Stupid
Remember these guys? Good old Bonde do Rolê, running around the place like a bunch of hyperactive toddlers making a load of noise and babbling on about releasing the chickens? What ever happened to them, eh? Since she left the band, ex-lead singer Marina seems to have been releasing a record about once a month with a lengthy list of collaborators [...]
June 2, 2009
Ghetturista?
“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.” – V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River
March 23, 2009
Favela On Blast Trailer
Still no word on when we’ll finally get to see Favela on Blast, the long-awaited funk Carioca documentary directed by Leandro HBL and Wesley Pentz (a.k.a. Diplo). The film premiered - not for the first time - at last week’s SXSW festival in Austin, but no sign of an actual release date yet. We’ll just have to make do with the trailer for [...]
January 3, 2009
Diplo Interview
Philadelphia-based DJ Diplo has been a tireless champion of Brazilian music in the US and the UK for years. With new album Decent Work for Decent Pay out on January 26th on Big Dada, I caught up with the man himself to talk about his plans for 2009. First of all, what can you tell [...]
