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 ‘Diplo’
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. → [...]
April 20, 2010
Curioser and Curioser
Binario‘s debut album was pretty weird. Good, but weird. So you’ve really got to hand it to DJ Noel Watson, whose mixtape manages, if anything, to make it even stranger. Blending tracks from the album with clips of spoken word, rap and all sorts of spacey sounds, Watson’s Mind Rattling Mix Tape is a seriously [...]
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 [...]
February 19, 2009
Gilles Peterson Mini-Interview
Lovely fella, is Gilles. Knows his onions, too. I spoke with him before the Worldwide awards to find out what Brazilian music has influenced him most over the last few years. Wow…well on the one hand I’d have to say Seu Jorge, who’s been a revelation, and on the other hand I suppose the work of labels [...]
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 [...]
