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March 20, 2007
Bonde Do Role: Quem sois vós?
Only 6 more days until BONDE DO ROLE hit the stage at Local 506!!!
Now who the hell are Bonde Do Role, you ask? Good question! Bonde Do Role are two guys and a girl from Curitiba, Brazil. They make a somewhat more self-aware "next-generation" variation of the baile funk/funk carioca sounds that people have been dancing to in Rio De Janeiro favelas for many years now. I think there might be some sort of tenuous "art-school-variant-of-NYC-punk" analogy that could be made here....maybe "Bonde Do Role : Rio baile funk :: Talking Heads : Blondie & Television"??? I'm not so sure, I'm just throwing that out there without thinking it through all the way.
In any case, Bonde Do Role released their first EP on Diplo's Mad Decent label in early 2006. That EP's "Melo Do Tabaco" is still up on BDR's MySpace player, but it was the other cuts that I dug the most. If you got a copy of my 2006 DJ mix, you might have heard the "Summer Nights"-sampling "Funk Da Esfiha" at the beginning of Track # 4.
I will post something about Bonde Do Role's newer 2007 releases later this week, but since I have never posted a YouTube video on here before, I would like to close out this post with an old Bonde Do Role video composed almost entirely of cow footage! The song itself is kinda awesome in its own right....that is, if you're like me and enjoy the judicious use and abuse of AC/DC samples.
Posted by Tim at March 20, 2007 08:32 PM