An Interview with Daniel Haaksman

Another Maga Bo mini-documentary. An interview with Daniel Haaksman from Man Recordings made in Rio de Janeiro, 2008. This is the first (of three) interviews with the "white boy gringos of funk." Guess who the others are.......

Curumin - Japan Pop Show

Veeery nice! Participações do BNegão, Lucas Santtana, Tommy "King of Corn" Guerrero, Marku Ribas, Blackalicious e Lateef the Truth Speaker. Download it here.

Pibes Chorros - "Andrea" - pista vazia.....?!

I had my first experience with digital cumbia on a (very sorry visa changing) trip to Buenos Aires in 2001. I spent most of my time traipsing all over town - to go by foot is cheap, ya know? Plenty of memories of sitting in plazas watching kids play futbol and trying to stay warm (it was august) while wondering how the hell I was gonna get back to Rio....anyway, that's another story all together. I always got curious when a car would pass cranking this super cheesy synthesized cumbia at really high volume - big bass and the characteristic chi-chi-chick sound.
On one of my excursions, I found myself lost in the view from a bridge. Eventually, I looked down and found "Sex, drugs and cumbia" scratched into the railing of the bridge. I decided I had to find out at least a little more about this. I found plenty of house music and electronic music stores, but the cumbia selection was even more cheesy than what I found coming out of the cars. At one of the shops, the guy pulled out the Pibes Chorros CD, Arriba las Manos, shaking his head, saying, "these peopel are very bad." I bought it on the spot. I became completely enamoured with the first track, "Andrea." When I finally got back to Rio, I managed to completely clear the dance floor every time I played this track......anyway, it still sounds great! ;-)

Cumbia Clandestina

Super big up to Soul Cocina for the Cumbia Clandestina mix that I just had the pleasure of listening to. Beautiful.


check it here:

part 1
part 2
part 3

And read the post here. I'm looking forward to checking the tracklist. ;-)

NYC and DC Flyers

Thursday in NYC!
friday in MTL (flyer below) and then,
Saturday the 5th in Washington DC at Eighteenth Street Lounge: