Baile funk has always had an intimate relationship with football. Our friend DJ Chernobyl from São Paulo sent us his “Funk Da Vuvuzela”, which praises our favourite 2010 instrument. DJ´s Fú and Dinho re-worked “Waving Flag” as a Brasilian version. Maybe the German team should blast these in their dressing room to ease up for tomorrow´s game against Ghana?

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Funk da Vuvuzela

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The above is a trailer for the We.music (sorry, shit name!) documentary about independent music in São Paulo. Sorry for those non-portuguese speakers, I’ll see if I can find a subtitled version. I haven’t seen it yet, but it does look interesting and reasonably well made.

The independent scene seems to be  holding out hope for the music industry in Brasil, now that the majors have all but given up the ghost. Groups like Mombojó (see below) are self releasing their own material  through their site and seem to have struck a deal with the infernal UOL to make their new album available, though I would be interested to know how that works out financially for them.

The documentary includes friend of Man Recs, DJ Chernobyl.  At the We.music site there’s a nice track by Mr Chernobyl with excellent São Paulo Rapper Xis.
Chernobyl + Xis – Pra que tudo se nada se leva by wemusic

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Friend of Man, Mr. Chernobyl, certainly keeps busy! Here’s his Tecnobrega production of “Flei” with Daniel Peixoto of Montage. I would say this as an example of what happens when tecnobrega is adopted by the new electro school of Brazilian hipsters.