baila funk (continued)

1 BOLADONA
2 MONT. CARTAO MAGNÉTICO
3 KABO KAKI
4 VOU BOTAR VOCÊ NA PISTA
5 SATISFAÇÃO
6 TAPINHA ATRAZ TAPA NA FRENTE
7 GUERREIRA
8 SE MARCAR
9 SOU FEIA MAIS TO NA MODA
10 MONT. CARDÁPIO DO AMOR
11 MATEMÁTICA
12 MONT. ARDENDO ASSOPRA
13 DEMOLE MEU BARRACO
14 DAKO É BOM
15 YURI JUVENTUDE
16 ORGIA
17 DEMORO JÁ É
18 PRA ESQUERDA PRA DIREITA

nice

thank you.

i got a cd off someone who was out there recently-ish. it it bears is the word "chaparral". is that the name of a baile somewhere?

this guy says:

"Bem em frente a elas, do outro lado da Brasil (logo, fora da Maré) existia um local, que eu nunca soube se era um clube ou simplesmente um galpão, conhecido como Chaparral. Lá, rolava um dos bailes funk mais conhecidos do Rio, reza a lenda que era um dos mais violentos inclusive."

seems like its the name of a rave or something...one of the most violent?
anyway it sounds a bit like a sort of live show. the point is, when i gte back to mycomputer, ill try and stick it on yousendit, or if anyones got any websapce ill get it to them to put up.

its pretty decent btw, more "brasilian" sounds than ive previously heard, some odd sampling, and some bad mcing. well bad, inasfar as i can judge

maybe that blog is worht keeping tabs on!

althogh i guess theres a lot of blogs etc about it, god knows how you find it

http://www.funkbrasil.com/

but it doesn't seem to have as many links working as before (the top of the left hand column)

here's what good from what I got before:

Nelly / DJ Phábyo - Funk Dilema

MC Serginho & DJ Felipe Carvalho - Eguinha Pocoto(Technobeat)

MC Vanessinha - Buchecha Ardendo

KellyKey - Techonoso Ta Afimde Ham (DJ Blater Mix) [Kelly Key is Brasil's Britney - see's very hot looking; I'm not sure if this is an official remix or not.)

DJ MP4 - Table 2003

When I was there, some expats in Rio told me a story of some kids in love with this tune, who eagerly asked them to translate the English lyrics into Portugese. They were distraught when they found out how inane they are. Slammin' tune though.

DJ Jaime - Sensual (I recognise the MK mix of the Nightcrawler's Push The Feeling On, but where is the vocal from??)

Bondedas Loiras & DJ Dinhoe Fu- Experimenta (with rave keys!!)

Menor do Chapa (DJ Edgar)- Turano e Quebra Coco

for the following, I have no certainty of artist/track title

Montagens_Complexo_do_Borel

JA SEI NAMORAR (BA MIX) wma file

Adoleta (DJ Artur Xavier Mix) wma file

And thanks, Phil for those albums!!!

these will be up for, oh... say, a week.

I'm guessing everyone has the Mr Bongo Funk Carioca compilation, right?

The next paragraph begins suggesting something like after the club had shut down, the venue was abandoned. The blogger left Rio and lost touch with the scene, but when he passed the venue today (date of blogging), he noticed the building the club had been in has been occupied, ie. people have moved in and started living there. And it seems the blogger is shocked that they've got some kind of TV arial on the roof. How can they possibly have a TV arial? he wonders.

I know I'm missing a lot of subtlety from the story though. There's probably a lot more local colour and detail in the way he tells it.

Thanks Tannenbaum, downloading those now.

I don't think they're at the "flow" stage yet. Or really in competition with good grime or reggaeton MCs. But I don't see it's worse than a Li'l Jon repeatedly shouted chorus.

The funny thing is, all I've had in my head over the last couple of days is De La Soul's "Tread Water" off 3ft high and rising, which is the same template that a lot of funk MCs use. Anyone know if that was a common rhythmical style to use at the time or if it was an oddity? I can't think of anything else that uses it.

True. It's on the Diplo mix too. If you don't know that, go get it!

the MC Vanessinha tracks i have are all good too. I haven't been able to get the Diplo mix yet

"Som de Preto" by Amilckar & Chocolate

"Bochecha ardendo" by Os K-rrascos & Vanessinha do Picatchu ( a version of the ine posted previously)

"Pula" by Tihuana

Pula is amazing.

FAVELA RISING
Jeff Zimbalist, Matt Mochary
USA, 2005, 78 minutes

Living in one of Rio de Janeiro's most feared slums--home to drug traffickers, corrupt police and a staggering youth mortality rate--former drug dealer Anderson Sa uses hip-hop and Afro-Brazilian dance to rally his community to fight against the violence.

Thursday 6/16 at 9:45 p.m.
Friday 6/17 at 5:00 p.m.

Stay tuned: http://www.favelabreaks.com/

what a great quote. the documentarian must've plotzed when he said that.

and hey another baixar goldmine at the funk neurotico site - big frequently updated archives of tracks, esp.under "atuais"(live?). couple of good links there too: http://www.funkneurotico.net/mp3.html

Some of the links are to really poppy stuff which I like too.

tracklisting here: http://www.nossadesign.com/back.html

http://www.nossadesign.com/music.html

My friend just went to South America and mentioned she was going to Rio so i ordered her to go and seek out Baile Funk and go to a sound system party. So she went to a massive party in one of the Favelas and was taught how to shake her money maker. She didn't think much of the music but said it was an amazing atmosphere. I was really jealous.

Does anyone know where outside brasil you can buy this stuff on vinyl?

yeah i prefer "caroica funk"

i wonder if this has anything to do with them being on the other side of the equator.

Here you go:

http://www.cafepress.com/sleevenotes

I'm not sure how late I am on this here at ILM, but all my Brazilian friends have been giving me the correct terms and such.

Funk means Brazilain Bass down there. They say it's because Funk DJ's used to play legit Funk, and as American Black music evolved, they never took note of the change in genre names.

Funk Carioca means Funk (Bass) from Rio.

Bailes are where parties are thrown.

Baile Funk means where Funk/Bass parties are thrown.

You know, Portuguese does the 'adjective after the noun' thing.

Good question. All my correspondence with my Brazilian friends is online, so...

My guess has always been:

Car-e-oka

not to be confused with car-e-okra. Neither deep fried, nor pickled.

Baile I've always pronounced "Bi-eel"...which is gay.

I'm not sure, despite the fact that I worship at the alter of Gilberto Gil. It's like, I listen, and I sing along, but I have no clue how close I am...

The pronunciations I heard were "BYE-lee" and Care-he-oka (with the h sort of half-silent). Rio is actually pronounced "Hio" by Cariocas.

Also, Mr Catra told us it should be called "Funk, Carioca Style."

Me too.

I heard Baile was pronounced Bah'yi'lay from my friend that lived in Rio

Bah - i - lay

stress on the first syllable, i guess

...for example, "obrigado/obrigada" (meaning "thank you")--sometimes the "o" at the beginning was pronounced like "oh" and other times like "aw" and the "o" at the end was pronounced like "oh" or like "oo"....other times they'd drop the last "o" or "a" and just say "oh-bree-gaj"

anyhoo, i mostly heard baile pronounced as "BYE-lay" and Carioca as "caw-ree-OH-kaw"...but still, this varied

i saw "Jeeoo-bayr-too Jeeoo" in concert when I was in Sao Paulo--it a very cool experience

baile = ball in Portugese

http://www.associatedentertainment.com/aec/images/main/Stevie-Wonder.jpg

Love is blind...

and carioca is carry-okka (short 'o' as in 'dog').

I almost cry with your email because I've been working to make the bass scene in Brasil.better. I'm not sure if you know but i'm the dj that bring the majority of miami bass music to brazil aks dj eletro who I'm. Thank you for your kind attencion it represent a lot to me I travelled during 15 years to USA every month bringing the freestyle and Miami bass to Rio and to Brazil. Without exaggeration I'm responsible for 80% of the bass that land here between 85 to 98 today some guys take control of the market but they don't discover nothing and are destroying our work with productions of bad quality and í'm fighting with them the so called funk carioca is a distorsion of the real bass music and the guy tha represent the moviment is a shit. but he has the midia and the money to say what he wants,but he can't erase the lifes and the work of who really works to make the bass scene a reality during the last 22 years.
I'm one of the pionners in the bailes(party with sound system and dj's playing records for large audiencies in the suburbs) I've been spining since 1974and in 1991 I became audio engineer and produce some records here the berimbau is only one of severalsongs I did, recentlyI did a song with bossa nova and Miami bass and I would
like you listen I'll send to dxj the songs and I hope you like Thank you so much for your atencion with me your opinion represents alot for us in Brazil that love the sound of Bass..I wouldlike to ask you some question about some artist if you don't mind to spend some time with me my msn is___________thank you very much.

djnazz

back to pronunciation...this site is the bomb (even though it doesn't explicitly say how to pronounce BAILE and CARIOCA).

http://www.fonetiks.org/sou2po.html

where is it actually distributed properly? and through which channels?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/reviews/story/0,13875,1550898,00.html

This has meme potential.

Chicago-based writer Pete Margasak from his blog (on 9-28-06):

A couple of days ago a reader disputed my claim that Tetine was behind the curve, gently calling me a “clueless American crit.” Because the duo hosts a radio show on England’s Resonance station called Slum Dunk and has curated a decent collection of funk carioca, they've gotten lots of exposure, which has allowed them to become flavor of the moment. Most funk carioca artists in Rio de Janeiro are from favelas (slums) and thus poor, have scant access to the media, and don’t speak English. Tetine’s take on funk carioca has a relatively high-tech gloss that's missing from the real Brazilian stuff. That on its own isn't a good reason to disparage their music; it only takes a pair of ears to realize that they're ridiculously over-the-top to the point of parody.

What rubs me the wrong way is that while Tetine may be aware of what’s happening in Rio, they’re bandwagon jumpers. Check out earlier Tetine tracks like “She’s Not a Girl Who Misses Much” and “Russian Roulette” and it’s clear that in a previous incarnation not so long ago they were riding a lame musical trend: weak neo-80s synth pop.

I spent a few weeks in Brazil earlier this year, and a fantastic tune called “Ela So Pensa Em Beijar” by MC Leozinho was the ubiquitous summertime hit. (The best way for an American to buy the song is to pick up this strange compilation, a collection of Brazilian soccer star Ronaldinho’s fave tunes.) The song grabbed me because it was adapting the beats of funk carioca for pop music, using strummed acoustic guitars, melodic synth patterns, and mildly soulful, sung vocals rather than the usual gruff rapping. Funk Mix, a swell new anthology compiled by DJ Marlboro—the longtime kingpin of Rio’s funk carioca scene and Diplo’s key Brazilian buddy—proves that the sound of the MC Leozinho track was no fluke, but rather a new paradigm. The collection has some straight-up, lean funk carioca: “Satisfação” by Tati Quebra-Barraco (whose mighty “Boladona,” which swiped its primary melody line from Devo’s “Mongoloid," was another smash in Brazil this year) and “Cria Asa, Periquita” by MC Brio Levby, which nicely samples some yodeling. But most the CD follows the new model, with a distinct R & B twist that betrays R. Kelly’s reach.

It’s not all good, but it’s a fascinating (and perhaps inevitable) commercially oriented mutation of standard funk carioca, whose bares-bones rawness is one of its most appealing characteristics. I’m not about to prognosticate on the future of Brazilian pop music, but this stuff certainly seems more fecund and exciting than the warmed-over slop Tetine was dishing out at the Empty Bottle last week.

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This American college student and dj's blog is about his time spent in Brazil and his experience with funk carioca.

um

http://vimeo.com/11843959

trailer for diplo's favela on blast documentary.

Just got back from Brazil, where I attended carnival in Rio and Salvador events. I missed a late-night DJ Marlboro event. Heard MC Joao "Baile de Favela" (light remix) lots of places, including everyone chanting along to it on a 10 am Copacabana Beach bloco carnival parade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhpEo-hxma4

that's cool. this might be baile funk-adjacent but i love this track:
https://soundcloud.com/salviatek/mc-andinho-x-lemonick-x-mc-baiano-mc-kalzin-mc-maneirinho-aquecimento-da-litoral-pobvio-crash-edit

small chance i might get to go to Brazil this summer, we'll see.

Nice. We also saw some some awesome Brazilian drum squads in both Rio and Salvador, Jordan

I think my favorite mix of Baile de Favela is the youtube one where the crowd chants. the "Light" one is almost too dark and, uh, heavy though I suppose my opinion might change hearing it blasted outdoors

I might be wrong about it being the "light remix"...It was the most melodic one, whichever mix that is

Sounded more pop than rap

From brazil here.
Some Baile Funk's that are trending here now:

Ta Tranquilo, Ta Favoravel - MC Bin Laden ( The same guy from o Passinho do Faraó - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S47j20reO-A)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJ5Lc0WwVw

Arrastão is a label that does a EDM take on baile funk - https://soundcloud.com/cuidadovaipassaroarrastao

Não Me Deixe Sozinho - Nego do Borel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evc7vS5JO8

Os Mlk é Liso - MC Rodolfinho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqVg44Fr4-o

Solta o Grave - MC Pedrinho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTJyn6zyI3E