My track “Kid Conga” feat. MC Miltinho is getting a lot of love these days. When Fairtilizer approached us to iniate the “Kid Conga Remix Contest” two weeks ago, the love for the track started to increase even more. We counted more than sixty (!) contributions from all around the world when the remix contest submission deadline ended yesterday. I carefully listened to all remixes, and in the end I divided all contributions in four categories picking the two best remixes in each particular style. Standing out were in the categories:

Big room bangers: SobEr, DJ P@app
Minimal: Juke Boyz, Daniel Farley
Ghetto bass: Dirty Monkeez, Kappy
Global beats: Bert On Beats, Tim Turbo

It was hard to decide on the ultimate finalist, but in the end there can only be one winner and it´s…….ramtatata: BERT ON BEATS a.k.a. DJ Critikal

His remix impressed me the most. The “Bert On Beats Remix” is a Kuduro inspired rework which is well mixed and engineered, it has a fantastically programmed half time break-part, plus the beat is bananas and the bassline is just killing it. Congratulations, Bert, err Critikal!

Many thanks to all contributors and to Fairtilizer, you can check out all remixes here.

And here´s the winner remix:

Dj Cliffy from london brazilophile club Batmacumba has put together the collection Black Rio 2 original samba soul 1968-1981, this is a sequel to Black Rio, an excellent compilation on Strut which managed to introduce Brazil’s wealth of samba summery rare grooves to  western punters. This collection promises more of the same, many already familiar from house partys and black bailes if you reside in Brazil, but a nice funky selection all the same. If you are patient, you can still find these tracks on vinyl in Brazillian second hand record stores, if you look outside the big urban centres where the knowledgeable record collectors are, you can pick them up cheaply, although in pretty scruffy covers. Anyway Cliffy seems to know his bananas and courtesy of The Fader has done a half hour promo mix to sample the album.

Download mix here.

Our Porto Alegre man DJ Chernobyl, producer of Bonde Do Role and head of Comunidade Jiu Jitsu, just did this remix for L.A. based Japanese baile funk queen Tigarah.

Download it/ listen to it here:

Space Travel DJ CHERNOBYL REMIX by Daniel Haaksman

If you´re a follower of this blog, you know we at Man Rec are big UK Funky followers. At last, London brings us the dancefloor heat we´ve been yearning for years, with riddims full of culture and bass that nourish from the “hardcore continuum” ( Stush & Hard House Banton – We Nuh Run (Sirens Riddim) by fabric