Some past and present collaborators: Filastine, BNegão, Piveti, Marcelo Yuka, Digitaldubs Sound System, Mr. Catra, Mario Z, Tamy, Genetic Drugs, Marcelinho da Lua, Marechal, Speed Freaks, Pee Froiss, WA BMG 44, Omzo, Daddy Maky, Spectre, Prince Wadada, Kalaf, Bigg, K-Libre, Eskadron 113, Mell-Nenen Crew, ALIF, Mohammed Issa Matona, Teba (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Seattle, New York, Lisboa, Berlin, Dakar, Zanzibar, Cape Town, Meknes and Casablanca in the house)
a fucked up boom box stuck between a station playing the Om Kalthoum and another playing Bounty Killer at full volume in the middle of Mercado Uruguaiana in Rio de Janeiro.
"...laced together with Bo’s deep understanding of global musical timbres and a keen appreciation for booty-shaking beat science, the result is the favela on blast Diplo strives for but doesn’t always achieve. Outta-national? Globalista? Sure, but Bo is speaker-bangin’ before all else." - Matt Earp in XLR8R
"...layers of multi disciplined instrumental styles and twisted tongues encrusted into it's seething mass of beats that we can't do it justice in a review. Dive in yourself and get lost in Maga Bo's global sound conundrum. Dense." - Boomkat
"...Essentially Archipelagoes allegorises the concept of reach. Reaching out far and wide for inspiration, using what is within immediate reach as a means of capture in order to provide insight into something that’s for most of us, out of reach. An album that proves low budget need not equate to low art, frankly brilliant." - Suneel Jethani in Cyclic Defrost
"An emphasis on collaboration and the exchange of knowledge and ideas makes Maga Bo’s work stand out from that of over-developed world producers who grab the signifiers of others’ cultures (usually acapellas or vocal samples, but often music, too) and use them in disembodied form to add an exotic veneer to their work. Archipelagoes, the product of several trips to Africa over the past few years, showcases a dizzying range of deep-rooted influences, moving around the continent to make unimagined connections between genres..." Gervase de Wilde in Shook Vol. 1 No. 3 Summer 2008
"...Maga Bo blew me away with his hard-hitting debut album, Archipelagoes (Soot)." - Chicago Reader
Maga Bo is a producer/DJ based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His work spans the breadth of international urban bass music from hip hop and kwaito to baile funk and jungle ragga to dub, grime and dubstep with flares of samba, rai, bhangra, cumbia, skewed electronic beats and loudspeaker jitter.
Traveling often and widely, he stays weeks at a time connecting and collaborating with local musicians and vocalists. His methods are simple and effective. Armed with a laptop and a microphone, a $6 hotel room anywhere turns into a recording studio. Electronic acquaintances and friends of friends, in person, become musical conspirators, teachers and friends. Over time, a deep musical landscape is being creating that is the collective imprint of this community.
World music is music with truly global reach - 50 Cent, U2, Shakira. This is the other thing - emissions from the flip side where vocals recorded in one room studios on a microphone taped to a refrigerator in lieu of a stand get released on the internet and over local sound systems the same night. By the next day, the track has been sampled again by guys on the other side of the world and mashed up with whatever local concoctions they've got going on. Maga Bo is tapped into and part of this weird new sonic zone.
O norte-americano Maga Bo, radicado no Rio de Janeiro há 10 anos, é considerado um dos principais figuras do movimento "Global Ghettotech." Ele é produtor músical e DJ trabalhando com uma quebra-cabeça de sons inusitados, graves absurdos e levadas suingadas de todos os continentes. No contexto das contorções digitais de hip hop e dub, ele amassa batucada, rai, capoeira, bhangra, cumbia e batidas eletrônicas numa quebra-cabeça sem fronteiras de sons achados, e ritmos e melodies modificados do mundo todo.
Viajando longe e frequentemente, ele passa semanas conhecendo e colaborando com músicos e vocalistas locais. Os metodos dele são simples e eficáz. Armado com um laptop e um microfone, um quarto de hotel de $6 em qualquer lugar do mundo transforma num estudio de gravação. Conhecidos virtuais e amigos dos amigos, pessoalmente, viram conspiradores músicais, professores e amigos. Com a passagem de tempo, uma paisagem músical está sendo criada que é uma refleção coletiva dessa communidade.
World music é música com um alcance verdadeiramente mundial - 50 Cent, U2, Madonna. Isso é a outra coisa - transmissões do outro lado onde vocais gravadas com um microfone colado numa geladeira com fita adesiva em vez de um pedestal são lançadas na internet e nos sistemas de som locais na mesma noite. No próximo dia, a faixa já tem sido sampleada por caras no outro lado do mundo e amassadas com as batidas de lá. Maga Bo está ligado nessa estranha nova zona músical.
Filmed and edited in Dakar, Senegal, "Fire feat. Xuman" is the first (of three) accompanying video clips for the full length album (there are also two 12" vinyls out too!), Archipelagoes, on Soot Records.
Filmed in Dakar, Senegal, "Saye Mbott feat. ALIF" is the second (of three) video clips to accompany the full length album (there are also two 12" vinyls out too!), Archipelagoes, on Soot Records.
Filmed in Cape Town, South Africa, "Nqayi feat. Teba" is the third video clip to accompany the full length album (there are also two 12" vinyls out too!), Archipelagoes, on Soot Records.
Maga Bo, saudações! Me apresentarei pela primeira vez no RJ dia 13/07 no Cinemathèque, Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro a partir das 22h. Se der apareça. Valeu! F.P.
To Release isn't to forget, not to think about, or ignore. It doesn't leave feelings of anger, jealousy, or regret. It's not about pride and it's not obsessing or dwelling on the past. It's not about giving in or giving up. To let go is to cherish the memories, but to overcome and move on. Letting go is learning and experiencing and growing. To release is to be thankful for the experiences that made you laugh, made you cry, and made you grow. It's about all that you have, all that you had, and all that you will soon gain. Letting go is releasing and having the courage to accept change, and the strength to keep moving. It is realizing that the heart can sometimes be the most potent remedy. To let go is to open a door, and to clear a path and set yourself free---
Maga Bo, remember that it's easy to let go when holding on hurts so bad--so free yourself from all these expectations and just be :-) Hope you find the unity in my new single posted âReleaseâ feat. JRockA. So come peep the track! Stay creative and stay connectedâ¦
Hey... Check out this fantastic live performance by the Tanzanian
singer-songwriter Ashimba and the two brazilian master percussionists
Bernardo Aguiar and Gabriel Policarpo at Ashimba's European Release
Party in Copenhagen. Tanzania and Brazil pamoja!!! Muziki Mzuka...
this is what we do !
Samedi 11 juillet 2009
Melting Point #19
Truth - JazZstepPa – Dub4 - Hughes - Subrider
Minuit > 6h – 12 euros
Point Ephémère – 200 quai de Valmy – 75010 Paris
Producers from around the globe have been hard at work rejigging MZO tunes and making them their own. We are pretty excited by the diversity and enthusiasm that oozes out of our speakers and when you hear them, you will be too! Each week we add a new one to the MZO web site for your downloading pleasure, and so far you can tremble to sounds from VALAV(Belgium), ELECTROMECA(France), SATANIC DISNEYS(Finland), CURSOR MINER(UK), OVE-NAXX + TOXIC LIPSTICK(Japan/Aust).
..in the weeks to come you will be hearing remixes by XANAPTICON(USA), SICKBOY(Belgium), THE BERZERKER(Aust), CHUCK KNEE(Aust), KNEX(Belgium), BLACK LUNG(Aust),GROMOV(Russia), EBOLA(UK), GO280(Sweden), MIRRA & FAY(Russia), DR CHI(Spain), REVERSE TUNES(Brazil), and many more... All of these artists create some of the best sounds around and we are quite humbled that they all did such a great job on our tracks - we hope you enjoy them and you get turned on to some wickid music producers.
Pre order the limited edition MZO EARTH EATERS VINYL from DEATH$UCKER Records HERE www.deathsucker.org
LIVE! LIVE! LIVE! LIVE! LIVE! LIVE! MONSTER ZOKU ONSOMB! Perform in the UK at The GLADE FESTIVAL 2009! 16 - 19 JULY... We get to stick it to you in the OVERKILL tent with VENETIAN SNARES & MILANESE (to name but a few) - more information and buy your tickets on line HERE www.gladefestival.com
Bloco CRU - SABADÃO (06/06) Lista Amiga - Baile Cru dia 06/06 sábado (contato@cabaretcru.com)
O Bloco cru traz os clássicos do rock'n'roll em ritmo de marchinhas, samba, maracatu, maculelê e o que mais tiver. E junto da festa do bloco tem Dj Giubs (direto de Acapuco) tocando funk, jazz, soul, Djs Cheech e Leo Zapata com os grooves, dub's e reggaeton, Dj Ricardo Brasilia com jazz, jazz e jazz nos vinís, Dj Andrei tocando Balcanpunkbeats e fechamos com o rock e psychedelis-classic com Dj Bernadette.
Melting Pot TOTAL!
Tudo isso no Cinemathéque, Botafogo, R. Volutários da Pátria, 53, ao lado do Metrô Botafogo. Tel.: 2579-6736|2286-5731 Ingresso: $15|$10 lista amiga (contato@cabaretcru.com) ou na nossa comunidade:
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Samedi 11 juillet 2009
Melting Point #19
Truth - JazZstepPa – Dub4 - Hughes - Subrider
Minuit > 6h – 12 euros
Point Ephémère – 200 quai de Valmy – 75010 Paris
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