Le James Brown De L’autre Funk : Mr Catra

Grâce à la gentillesse de Vincent Rosenblatt, j’ai eu la chance d’assister mardi dernier à un mini-showcase du James Brown de l’autre funk, Mr Catra dans un bordel de Barra appellé le Café Paris. Ambiance lumière noire et strings phosphorescents avec un Catra qui m’a fortement fait pensé à Devin The Dude. Aux platines et à la mpc Dj Edgar tout en contrôle. Pendant 20 minutes Catra a enchaîné des titres de son répertoire “Putaria” donnant un show “tranquilo”, avec blague sur la taille du sexe d’une grande fille de la place, morte de rire comme toutes ses copines.

Mr Catra – Vem Nha Nha

Aprés ça, tout le crew de Catra (trois voitures) s’est déplacé vers une fête de quartier ou l’école de Samba locale donnait un show d’entraînement avant le carnaval. Grosse fête avec plus d’un millier de personnes dansant et chantant sur du MPB et de la Pagode.

Thanks to Vincent Rosenblatt, I got to see the James Brown of the other funk Mr Catra. He did a short show in a whorehouse, very cool, with a talented Dj Edgar on the mpc. Most of his repertoire that night was putaria and he was joking around with the girls. After that, him and all his crew (3 cars) brought us to a community party where more than a thousand people where singing and dancing on MPD and pagode music.

Masalavision #1: Tinariwen Live

Le premier d’une série de petites bouchées épicées à la Masala.
First one of a spicy apetizer serie à la Masala.

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External video links:
Tinariwen Documentary pt.1
Tinariwen Documentary pt.2

External audio links:
Tinariwen 3 albums on Calabash

More infos:
Official Tinariwen website
Tinariwen on Wikipedia

Dizzee Flex single

Knock knock who’s there ? The new single of Dizzee Rascal with a great bassline remix by DJ Q.

mp3 (direct link):
Dizzee Rascal – ‘Flex’ (original) via disco devil
Dizzee Rascal – ‘Flex’ (Dave Spoon rmx)
Dizzee Rascal – ‘Flex’ (DJ Q rmx) via dstar

and you can get the micky slim dub version via analog giant

2 New Songs In The Masala Mailbox

During the last couple days we received 2 great tracks at Masala. We love receiving great tracks so please send more our way (click the envelope on the right side)!

Ghislain Poirier is sharing a track from one of the many hip-hop cassettes he bought in Senegal a couple years ago. Let him explain:

“I was in Burkina Faso in 1998. On my way back to Montreal in January 1999, I had a 12 hours transit via Dakar to take the plane Dakar-NYC. Yes, at that time there was a direct flight Dakar-NYC with Air Afrique.
During my 12 hours transit, all Senegal was celebrating because the ramadan just finished and it was the first real big meal ! I had the chance to go downtown Dakar and driving a car for the first time in Africa (nice experience) to chase some African Hip-Hop cassettes that I wasn’t able to find in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). On the many cassettes that I bought that day there was Senerap Freestyle 1 (1997) and Senerap Freestyle 2 (1998).

Still today, I love these cassettes and I finally did a cassette rescue and
digitalized them. BNP “Yow milédal” is taken from Senerap Freestyle 1.“

BNP – Yow milédal 4:05 (Zshare link)

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And today, our good friends from Professor Murder announced a good news! They’re releasing a new free 3 songs EP! The EP is called “Professor Murder on a Desert Island” and the first song, “Flex-It Formula” was released today on a new website called RCRDLBL.com. Grab it by just 2 clicks. Also check out the track I played before I flew to South America from their latest vinyl by listening to this previous show.

The Bug new track

The Bug ‘Poison Dart’ (feat. Warrior Queen). South Rakkas remix on pt.1, Skream on pt.2. Buy it here. via uncarved

Hello from Chile

Revolutionary Santiago

Murals in Santiago.

In the Atacama desert.