“Moombahton was like the glue holding everything together in the beats, the last piece of the puzzle.” Munchi is an all around buffon from Rotterdam, who gets a lot of attention internationally, especially for his outstanding individual style of creating various tracks ranging from Moombahton to Moombahcore and all other global genres. He helped me [...]
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Munchi Interview
Posted in Interviews, Music + Reviews, Radio, tagged festival, future places portugal, intervoiew, munchi, radio futura, summer of moombahton on October 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Maga Bo Interview @ Transmediale Berlin 09
Posted in Interviews, tagged Archipelagoes, Club Transmediale, Fabric, Filastine, Ghislain Poirier, Maga Bo, MC Benegao, Soot Records on January 29, 2009 |
Maga Bo, the sonic traveller from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, just came for a visit to Berlin to play at Club Transmediale, the digital media culture festival. His set was a fluent mix of Brazilian tunes, Baile Funk, Dubstep and Elektronic bits n pieces, all supoorted by his rapper MC Bnegao. Just before his great [...]
Asian Dub Foundation – Berlin 2008
Posted in Interviews, tagged Asian Dub Foundation, London, Punkara on November 19, 2008 |
Asian Dub Foundation have been around for 15 years now and although they say they don’t belong to the Asian Underground movement, they have pushed several things forward and introduced their own multi hybrid sound. Steve, long-term guitarist and core of the group, talks about ethnic discrimination in music, the question of good immigrant bands [...]
Macaco 07
Posted in Interviews, tagged Macaco, Puerto Presente on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This interview is from October 07. But it’s time to publish it now, because Macaco released a new album: Puerto Presente! Macaco are one of the icons of Barcelonas Mestizo scene. A story that started ten years ago in a squat in the heart of Barcelona has by now gained so much success that the [...]
Zuco 103 Interview 2005
Posted in Interviews, tagged Afrocuban, Bossa, Brazilectro, Drum n Bass, Ethiopian, Funk, Jazz, Lee Scratch Perry, Macaco, Stefan Mörtel, Wha!, Worldbeats, Zuco 103 on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ZUCO 103 – June 2005 @ Sorat Hotel Berlin Call it Jazz, Worldmusic or Brazilectro – none of these attributes will be sufficient to describe the musical broadness of ZUCO 103, formed by Brazilian singer Lilian Vieira, Munich-born keyboarder Stefan Schmid and Dutch drummer Stefan Kruger. However, none of these attributes is wrong. They all [...]
Señor Coconut, Berlin 05
Posted in Interviews, tagged Atom TM, Chile, Coconut FM, Cumbia Lunatica, Flanger, Frankfurt, Germany, Latin music, Reggaeton, Señor Coconut, Stefan Schmidt, Techno, Techno Scene on November 14, 2008 |
A German in exile Frankfurts Techno scene is big and very popular. It´s so popular that it eventually gets quite small and oppressing at the same time, in relation to the style it marked. That´s why Señor Coconut aka Stefan Schmidt packed his bag in 1997 and went off to Chile. Since than he is [...]
Bajofondo Tango Club
Posted in Interviews, tagged Bajofondo Tango Clunb, Gustavo Santaolalla on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bajofondo Tango Club – 22.07.05 – Berlin My summer was Argentinian. Three interviews with bands from Buenos Aires that all won the Premio Gardel and that are marked by their very own style. One of those bands is the electro tango project BAJOFONDO TANGO CLUB. Founder Gustavo Santaolalla is an archaic member of the Latinamerican [...]

