Rio strikes back! In our newest release, “Funk Mundial – The Rio Baile Funk Remixes” Rio De Janeiro’s top baile funk DJs give their musical answers to some of the best tunes of the Funk Mundial series on Man Recordings – presenting baile funk remixes of anthems like Count+Sinden’s “Tamborzuda”, Crookers “Para De Graçinha”, Seiji´s “Todo Mundo” or Stereotyp’s “Jeçe Valadão”. Download here the DJ Edgar remix of “Jeçe Valadão” – and buy the full release on all major digital platforms.

Stereotyp feat. Edu K + Joyce Muniz “Jeçe Valadão” (DJ Edgar Baile Funk Remix)

The deadline for submissions in the Crookers / Funk Mundial remix contest ended last night. Spreading out in the blogosphere like a wildfire the remix contest was featured on many blogs and websites, even XLR8R magazine featured it in its online version. Thus, the results are truly mundial. We received a reggaeton remix from Puerto Rico, a banging Tecno Brega mix from São Paulo and tons of ravey stuff from all over the planet, even from heavy weights like Brabe from Holland or Sticky K courtesy of Dubsided fame.

We are currently in the process of remix evalution – with more than sixty entries, a real challenging job. Until we´ll announce the winners of the contest this Friday, we´ll give you something to play with : The Funk Mundial cube. Download the construction sheet for your own cube here:

http://exiltiroler.net/download/manrecordings/funkmundial-cube.pdf

Special thanks to Analog / Michael Ostermann from Vienna, Austria for designing the cube.

And of course: We´d like to say many thanks to all producers that provided their versions and participated in the contest.

Yo, ever fancied remixing Crookers? Well, here´s your chance. To celebrate the release of the Funk Mundial compilation, containing the best tracks of the vinyl series on Man Recordings, we are giving away original acappella, bassline and drumfills from the Crookers track “Soca Ali Baba” feat. Baile Funk MC Dandão for y´all to remix.

The best three remixes will be officially digital release on Man Recordings and rewarded with Man Recordings goodies and a share in sales.

Please send your remixes to info (at) manrecordings.com. Submission deadline is April 27th, 2009 (we postponed it for one more week). And: It doesnt matter which format you send us your remix. MP3s are preferred, if the remix gets a full release, we´d ask you for .WAV formats.

Download the parts from here:

http://www.zshare.net/download/58089059d64facf2/

Listen to the original track snippet here:03-soca-ali-baba-feat-mc-dandao-snippet

Our favourite Ed Banger, Feadz, has provided #9 in the Funk Mundial series. Fusing a major melody from old Europe, i.e. Mozart, with the banging beats from Rio De Janeiro, Feadz has quite probably created the most radio friendly Funk Mundial track to date. Sinden, Annie Mac, Shir Khan and DJ Beware already dropped it in their radio shows and on Austria´s FM4 station Feadz tune is played in daytime radio.

Here´s the original Montagem from Rio on which Feadz´track is based. Hurry up with copping the 7″ – it´s limited to 500 copies. It´s also available thru the Man Rec web shop.
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As you may have heard, we´re about to release the best tracks of the Funk Mundial compilation on CD on April 20th. The CD launch celebrations officially started last Saturday, with a release party kick off at our bi-monthly Man Recordings night at Scala. Sinden, who provided “Tamborzuda” in the Funk Mundial series together with Herve, came over from London to rock some bass, supported by Mr.Wix from Parra Sound System Amsterdam and myself. See the photo journal here.

Mr.Wix and Sinden gearing up before the show

Wix heating it up

Sinden dropping some amazing dub step and funky house

The crowd at Scala going whow

The best bootleg T-Shirt of the night