From Miami to Brazil

Published Jun 01 2005, 09:49 PM by webteam

1. GENERAL INTERESTS: PRODUCING MUSIC THAT EVERYBODY LIKES AND CONTRIBUTING TO MAKING THE PEOPLE AROUND ME HAPPY. ALSO I AM VERY INTERESTED AND FASINATED WITH WATER.

WHO I'D LIKE TO MEET: CREATIVE EXOTIC FEMALE HEALTH NUTS WHO ARE LOOKING FOR JUST A FREIND. AND FELLAS WHO LIKE TO BE A PART OF TEAMS, YOU KNOW! TEAM PLAYERS, YOU KNOW! (n.h. -ed)

(Hint: this man played bass on the Potato Chips 12-inch "Roxanne's Real Fat" and on Extra T's "ET's Boogie." Link via Pappawheelie, who credits the above myspace postee with INVENTING MIAMI BASS. And if anyone knows exactly who did that and when, it's Pappawheelie. That dude has forgotten more about this stuff than we'll ever learn.)

2. Thanks to Boston ragga expert/scholar Wayne and Wax for the translation: turns out the vocal sample on Diplo's latest track "Haiti on Blast" contains liberal usages of the Haitian word for "faggot." Wayne's post joins the chorus of academics raising questions about Diplo's "appropriation" of third-world musics. (Don't take that last sentence to mean we're on Wayne's side: and to be fair to Wayne, he hasn't exactly taken a side yet -- but, like Sasha and Simon, he's on the fence and leaning hard towards revoking the dinosaur's favela pass.)

Here's Haiti on Blast (mp3, via Diplo's new site)

3. Our Portuguese is a little shoddy, and the Alta Vista babelfish isn't really cutting it, so can someone confirm: does this mean that DJ MARLBORO is coming to Hyannis this weekend?!!

For those lost in this thread, the following explanation probably won't help: Marlboro being the Brazilian DJ who introduced Miami bass to Rio favelas in the late '80s, thus apparently INVENTING BAILE FUNK (gross exaggeration, sorry), a sound that now has the ear of early-adopting disc jockeys and bloggerazi. Marlboro also produced the track that M.I.A. sampled on "Bucky Done Gone," the clearance of which reportedly held up Arular for a couple months. If you're new at this, here's what a small corner of the world has been listening to for the past eight months (link to our interview with Diplo from just after Favela on Blast coming as soon as we can dig it out of Phoenix Web site limbo hell):

The two big baile funk/funk carioca comps are the best, but there's a mostly-anonymous motherlode of similar stuff here (don't ask us to footnote). Someday soon we'd really like to read a coherent, beginning-to-end chronology/explication that digs deeper than the Baile Funk 101 pieces that are making the rounds.

And, of course, there's these things, which everyone's been describing as having been posted with the permission of Diplo:

Diplo, Favela on Blast (mp3) (p.s.: round two imminent)
Diplo and M.I.A., Piracy Funds Terrorism (zipped .rar file)

Oh, right: M.I.A. and Diplo coming to Avalon on June 9. All of the preceding nonsense aside, show of the year.