Crank Dat Chile

Dans quelques heures je serais au Chili pour 3 semaines, puis je partirai pour 3 semaines au Brésil ou je resterai probablement à Rio la plupart du temps.
Je pars avec une question, qu’est-ce qui se passe musicalement au Chili? On connaît Ricardo Villalobos ou encore, dans un autre genre, Panico, et je devine la présence d’une scène indie constituée de jeunes sortis des écoles d’art de Santiago. Mais qu’en est-il de la scène de la musique urbaine? Apparement le hip-hop chilien serait très inspiré par la “nouvelle chanson Chilienne” à tendance revendicative et sociale. J’ai écouté quelques bon trucs sur myspace, mais rien de renversant vraiment. A vrai dire, mes débuts de recherche m’ont fait m’attarder sur du Crunk Chilien plus gangster ou Flaite comme ils disent. Extrait:

CEA .ESE .OO AKA BIG CASO – Dope Man (direct link)

Dinero Sucio – Bola La Plata (direct link)

In a few hours I’ll be in Chile for 3 weeks, then I’ll go to Brazil for 3 weeks also, where I most probably will stay in Rio for the most part.
I’m going with one question: What’s going on in music in Chile? Everybody knows Ricardo Villalobos or, in another genre, Panico, and can foresee an indie music scene composed of art school former or current students. But what’s happening in the urban music scene? It seems that Chilean hip-hop is inspired by the “new chilean chanson”, more revendicative et socially conscious. I listened to some good stuff on myspace, but nothing too crazy. To be honest my first research brought me to some Chilean Crunk. More gangsta or Flaite like they say?

Métissé Serré – Quart de Finale

Ça commence à être chaud dans les séries du concours de RCI “Métissé Serré”. Les quarts de finale commencent aujourd’hui et je vous recommande de voter pour Xin Nian Hao de mon ami Alex parce qu’on a besoin d’une caméra HDV pour vous en mettre plein la vue pis qu’on est trop pauvre pour s’en acheter une. Mais mon coup de coeur va à Salsa Picante avec le chef Miguel qui fait un pâté chinois qui est pas mal hot en direct de Chez Claudette !

>>english version of this videocast competition about immigration

Autre belle iniative de Radio-Can Inter, la série web tv J’adopte un pays qui suit un couple de brésilien de la banlieue de Sao Paolo qui immigre à Montréal. Cette semaine, Patrick et Valéria découvre le Marché Jean-Talon et la Petite Italie. À suivre ici >>>

CISM Radio Show (27.10.07)

Une émission spéciale retour/départ de Guillaume qui nous présente du GROS son tout frais !
A special show for Guillaume who’s leaving for Chile and Brazil next week. BIG fresh sounds !

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Tracklist ||27.10.07||

DJ REKHA Basement Bhangra Anthem ft. Wyclef, Sunil Sehgal, Bikram Singh
MODESELEKTOR 2000007 ft. TTC
MODESELEKTOR The Dark Side of the Sun ft. Puppetmastaz
MODESELEKTOR Sucker Pin
GHISLAIN POIRIER Blazin’ ft. Face T (Modeselektor rmx)
GHISLAIN POIRIER Ladies & Gentleman ft. DJ Netik et Ambiteux
GHISLAIN POIRIER Go Ballistic ft. Zulu
JAHCOOZI BLN
JAHCOOZI Collagen
BOLE 2 HARLEM Hi Lo Ga
BOLE 2 HARLEM Ya Selam
DJ /RUPTURE & ANDY MOOR Track 4
DJ /RUPTURE & ANDY MOOR Track 9
MAXIMUM JOY Building Bridges / Building Dub
PROFESSOR MURDER Dutch Hex
MR VEGAS Tek Weh Yuh Self
DJ REKHA presents:Sexy Boy – Hard Kaur
Dj REKHA presents: Pasand – Mentor Kolektiv
Dj REKHA presents: Fakir – Pappi Gill, Sunil Sehgal
Tom Zé – Elaeu

Bhangra New Stuff

If kuduro thirst for new stuff seems hard to quench like Guillaume exposed in the last post, bhangra is well alive no matter what’s going on the international hipster scene.

Two labels are taking care of things right now, Vip and Bazaar Records.

Just last week, Vip has released 3 albums, one of them being Blitzkrieg “The Rhyme Book”, debut from an Indian MC who have collaborated with Tigerstyle, Bikram Singh and Punjabi Hit Squad. Check the promo video >>>

On the latest CISM show I played two tracks from recent Vip releases, Jags Klimax and Specialist & Tru-Skool. Jags Klimax is one of UK top bhangra DJ/Producer and his original production style have make lots of artists from around the world asked him for remix. The highlight on “The Album” is the track “Heer” featuring the Punjabi folkstress Sarbjit Kaur>>>

mp3: Jags Limax – Heer ft. Sarbjit Kaur (direct link)

“Repazent” from the duo Specialist & Tru-Skool was very awaited after their debut “Word is Born”. In fact it’s a very good Western influence album, here’s the track with the James Brown sample >>>

mp3: Specialist & Tru-Skool – Saukhi Ni Kammai (direct link)

Tru-Skool is also the producer behind the first hyped Bazaar records release “Raw as Folk”. The album features Bazaar own vocalists, Kaka Bhaniawala, Kulwinder Johal, Gurbhej Brar and Dippa Dosanjh (Satrang), all together on the massive “Raw as Folk Bolian” >>>

Apart of those two label releases, one discovery I made is Dalvinder Singh. I very like songs I hearded from his new album “Udeeka”. Here’s the one I played in last radio show>>>

mp3: Dalvinder Singh – Yaar Da Viah (direct link)

Dalvinder Singh MySpace

You can find samples and videos of all those artists on the labels site and buy the albums from there or on desitunes4u.com

Kuduro – One Year Later (kuduro series)

Last year quite around this period of time Kuduro popped up in the hipster blogosphere and took over it in a quite impressive whirlwind manner. Everybody got really excited by both the Buraka Som Sistema EP (released in July 2006) and Frederic Galiano‘s project. The tracks posted by Fat Planet on October 27th started the thing, alongside that post, dated a month before, and both have been quite a reference as you can see here.
Regular readers of Fat Planet, we played a few tracks in our radio show the days after and then started to search for new music, which brought us to broadcast several mixes in November and December 2006 and then do the Month of Kuduro in February. It’s interesting to watch the history of the mp3s tagged kuduro on the Hypemachine and the history on Technorati.
But let’s be clear, I’m not saying that nobody talked about Kuduro before Sept-Oct 2006. Actually you can see here, that Dj /Rupture mentioned it in 2005. It’s not my goal to determine who was the first one (it could be interesting but I honestly don’t really care), I would rather point out that the beginning of a lot of international and hipstery (me included) attention on this music started last year, with a couple posts on blogs here and there.

I’m writing that post for 2 reasons. First, well it’s been a year and I thought it might be a good idea to have a look back on this. Second, I’ve been talking to Wayne&Wax and Maga Bo about it, and they both talked to me like this attention was still pretty strong and important and I feel the inverse.
I’m under the impression that the trend crashed down actually pretty fast a bit before summer 2007. The lack of new music being posted on mp3 blog, seems to be the most important factor to me (check Hypemachine). My experience is that it’s more difficult to get new Kuduro than new Baile Funk. Also, the fact that Buraka Som Sistema haven’t been playing North America yet (as i know, but maybe they did) would be another reason of a lack of media attention. I tried to book them for Pop MTL 2007, but Petty, the lead singer who seems to blow minds of all the people I talked to or who wrote about it, is 17 years old and still in school, so she won’t travel but week-ends. Dancers are supposed to add a lot to the show, so it’s quite a big amount of transatlantic flights to cover and don’t expect monetary support from the Portugal embassy. Anyway, the way Bonde Do Role sustain attention on Baile Funk (in a good way or a bad way, I’ll let you decide), doesn’t seem to be the way of BSS for Kuduro.

I’m sure there will be a lot of people out there interested in hearing new stuff and now that Pop 2k7 craaaziness is behind me, I’m thinking of listening to some of the kuduro stuff I stocked and haven’t quite been listening to really. But i guess the whole thing I’m trying to say is: where is the new exciting material (ie that appeals to white nerds like myself)? I know there’s kuduro production going on in the community of Cape Verde in France, Portugal and elsewhere. I hope there’s still things going on in Angola, even though Galianno sounded pretty pessimistic on the phone and the record shop guy where I bought cds in Paris did say the same. I know Dj Manaia is regularly posting mixes with his own remixes and new sounds. But yet, I feel like if things continue this way, we or Paul Devro would have to re-use the same words he used for Hyphy, while introducing kuduro back in Nov 06.
I guess I’m waiting for somebody to start a discussion about this now. Oh and sorry I haven’t been posting a lot recently, I was all busy organizing Pop.

CISM Radio Show (20.10.07)

Cette semaine, nouveautés baile funk, banghra et crunk de gwadeloupe; les nouveaux protégés de Mad Decent, le South Rakkas Crew et le projet Bangers & Cash de Spank Rock et Benny Blanco.

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Tracklist ||20.10.07||

Dawa – Lyrical An Lo
Shaolin – Ice Cream
Bug Jahgal – DJ What!!! rmx
Bangers & Cash – Bitch
South Rakkas Crew – Carry Feelings ft. TOK
Alex DJ – Aquecimento das Piranhas
Bonde da Oskley – Vou Te Pedir
Gaiola Das Popozudas – Agora Sou Solteira
Dhol Beat
Lembher Hussainpuri (Jags Klimax Re-Fix) – Billian Akhaan
Specialist & Tru-Skool – Saukhi
Dalvinder Singh – Yaar Da Viah
Sukshinder Shinda – Wanga
Villa Diamante – Frikstailers vs Calle 13
Tego Calderon – Ni Fu Ni Na
M.I.A. – Mango Pickle Down River (with Wilcannia Mob)