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Brazil in Autumn
I made this playlist one September in Vermont, two years ago right before I moved back to Brooklyn. Leaves were falling, that crisp smell came back, and my taste in Brazilian and African music...
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Polychromatic Polar Psychedelia
Sometimes in the beginning of winter, after a long day working or walking outside, when the novelty of that cold, crisp breeze wears off, you want to scramble your brain with psychedelia and memories...
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Tom Zé – Doi
Other than the lucky few of us who were introduced to Tom Zé’s music by actual Brazilians, most Americans have come to know him because of David Byrne’s bout with serendipity: in the early 1990’s...
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DJ Underdog & Lunchbox Theory – Africa Africa Africa (pt. 4)
DJ Underdog and Lunchbox Theory have been producing a series of mixtapes, “Africa Africa Africa,” for the past couple years that fuse different strains and samples of Afropop with Latin Jazz, Funk,...
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Red Hot + Rio 2: Beirut goes Brazil
Beirut – “O Leaozinho” (Caetano Veloso cover) by znaki.fm Beirut, the music project headed by Zach Condon, is going on tour. Good news. He’s going on tour with Arcade Fire, the National, and Twin...
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Kanye West, Cross-Genre Sampler Extraordinaire
Kanye West and Jay-Z will be releasing a collaborative album, Watch The Throne, which will arrive on August 8. They have had an illustrious run over the past decade or so. Kanye rose to fame as the...
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Seu Jorge & Rio De Janeiro, Then & Now
The whole world is wondering (or should be wondering): “What’s coming out of Rio?” A better question might be, “what hasn’t been coming out of Rio?” While the city – Brazil’s second largest, after Sao...
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Maciel Salu – Mundo
Silly me. I thought Tropicalia – that magical 1960’s-conceived blend of samba, rock, and various Afro-Brazilian flavors – had said all it had to say by the late 1970’s. I should have realized that it...
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Tanlines – Mixed Emotions
Thanks to 2010’s Setting EP, relative newcomers Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm– known together as Tanlines– proved that they are capable of making first-rate dance tracks. However, they still had to prove...
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