Daniel Haaksman is about to release his second EP “Gostoso” with some new Baile Funk Electro Bingo Bongo stuff on it in 5 tracks. Release date is 7th of July.
Download: Daniel Haaksman – Pobum Coco
And read the Haaksman meets Diplo interview for German Groove Magazine about the Baile Funk / Global Ghettotech whatever you might call it over at Man Recorder! Quite interesting to read, also because it finally clears all wrong assumptions about Berlin being the über-electronic and open-for-all-music-styles-city.
And another goodie from the Recorder: Joao Brasil made a Baile Punk track feat. The Ramones!
pletely different ways. When Bambaataa used “Trans Europe Express” he created the electronic version of afro-american funk. In the U.S. this led to both Detroit techno and Miami bass. Electronic dance music in Germany wasnt very much influenced by “Planet Rock”, only when later, in it´s bastard child versions of Detroit techno or Chicago house. In Germany in contrary, e.g. DAF, was pretty straight and totally “white”. This preference has remained until today in large parts of the German dance music scene. There´s a few islands across Germany which follow afro-american music innovations, but the majority is completely self-centered. All the afro-american music innovations of recent years – bmore, chicago juke, etc. – werent registred over here. The same is for bubbling from Holland, which comes from a very vibrant black community.
DIPLO It´s great to mix with hard stuff, but by now it has become a no-word because for many years it has become really trendy. It´s a mix of Caribbean reggae and Dutch house, right in the middle.
You two have an ear for regional phenomenons. What is on your radar these days?
HAAKSMAN There´s hundreds of local dance music styles that are still to discovered. Tecno brega from Manaus for example. I´m currently into UK funky. Many of the UK funky guys come from Grime and they were fed of the clicheed strings and MCs. It´s sort of the UK answer to the breakbeat thunderstorm which poured over UK in recent years in forms of Kuduro, Soca, Baile Funk, Juke and Bmore.
DIPLO They want money, hehe! To be honest, I like UK funky, some of the instrumentals are great, like K.I.G.´s “Head, Shoulders, Kneez & Toez” has a good flow. But the majority of tracks sound to me like a cheap version of Bugz In The Attic. And when there´s “African” vocals, like (singing) “I play my conga”, then it sounds like the stuff my mother listens to when she visits a world music club night. At the same time it´s a mixed scene, with black and white kids, and that´s cool with me.
Read the original interview in German in Groove Magazine #119. Out now.
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