what got you into music from brasil?

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― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Sepultura and DJ Marky

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

The Wire Primer on Tropicalia a couple of years back.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

marcos valle

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Jazz Samba dance class. (In addition to the live drumming, the teacher used recorded Brazilian music for the warm-up.) The rhythms became a lot more comfortable. Even some of the slower, mellower, songs make use of the same basic rhythms I was dancing to.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

HAven't really heard much brazilian music. Chupa's stuff is cool though.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

The Monkees' version of 'How Insensitive' off volume three of their odds and sods compilations, strange though it may seem.

(wish I hadn't sold them now)

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

seeing Black Orpheus as a kid and then raiding my parents' record collection

― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Hearing Caetano Veloso at a friend's house, then interest was cemented after seeing him play in '99.

(funny, he comments quite a bit in Tropical Truth on his dislike of Black Orpheus; never seen it myself.)

― hstencil, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Mike Daddino taping me some! In I think 98. He taped me that first compilation of Tropicalia stuff David Byrne put together.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

The first Luaka Bop comp piqued my interest, and Veloso's late '80s solo-acoustic album on Nonesuch made me look even further.

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

One of my friends moved there to teach after college and would go on about Tropicalia.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

good answer Gareth!

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

stereolab... they opened my eyes...
m.

― msp, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, I think turning 30 made me more receptive to bossa nova, at any rate. Something about toning down my brain chemistry.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

''The Wire Primer on Tropicalia a couple of years back.''

haven't got into it yet though i got that primer as well when i bought that old issue recently. one of the better primers actually.

also a guy i met in toronto: he told that its a good time to buy loads of brazilian stuff since the economy is in trouble. he's been buying box sets on the cheap! he gave me a couple of links and I'll prob get some stuff.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

"Arise".

― Wyndham Earl, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

For me it was Marcello, our foreign exchange student from Brasil. Big rotund guy with an infectious laugh, wondering how in hell he went from Sao Paulo to this obscure little farm town in Oregon. He was trying to win the kicking spot on our (American) football team, and I was injured that year, so we spent a lot of time talking about life and music. When he left, he gave me a tape with the hilarious title Lambateria 2. When I put it in the player, it unspooled and messed up the whole thing, and I never heard a lick of it.

So I was still curious years later and picked up Brasil Classics Vol. 2: Forro, Etc., one of the Luaka Bop comps. Great stuff: polka/samba/country/funk. Hooked for life.

― Matt C., Wednesday, 16 October 2002 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

The Girl From Ipanema.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Redd Kross namedropping Os Mutantes.

Also, as a kid, Sergio Mendes and "Girl from Ipanema".

― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I keep forgetting to mention (embarassingly) that when I lost my virginity, a Joao Gilberto CD was playing in the room.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Living in Portugal.

― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

ILM: Os Mutantes and...

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

postal blue

― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Interesting you mention Stereolab, msp. I saw Tim do a DJ set follwing Tom Ze's gig in London playing solely Brazilian music. Now I thought I knew a thing or two about Brazilian music but his set contained track after track of rivetting beautifully danceable stuff and I barely recognised a single one.

― Daniel (dancity), Thursday, 17 October 2002 04:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't be sure. I remember the war of competing 'look how open-minded we are!' releases from David Byrne and Paul Simon back in the early nineties (okay, maybe not their intent, but that's sure how it felt like with their interviews at the time, bah), that must have sparked something. Friend Pedro, meanwhile, has been wonderful at showing exactly how many modern Brazilian bands just want to rock. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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