tecnobrega and other open source mashups

Buick6

too punk to drunk
Just saw that RIP doccumentary about remix and open source..

The interesting thing was TECNOBREGA or whatever from Brazil,
where they just pinch contemporary pop music and blend it into whatever..

I know so of you experts out there can fill me in on this stuff, but where can I get
the skankinest, banginest tecnobrega or harder mixmashmoshups?
 

zhao

there are no accidents
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nomos

Administrator
I wasn't keen on RIP. If memory serves, the intellectual property discussion (i.e. the point of the film) was pretty confused - little effort to differentiate approaches to sampling or to note the difference between sampling and copying/bootlegging, etc. It could also leave the impression that mashup types invented invented sampling - no hip-hop or anything. It was all very white (save for a brief, post-Diplo Brazil detour) and recent. Good that they brought in the Brazilian Cannibalist stuff but they didn't do much with it. And it was a total Girltalk fanboy love-in which is pretty nauseating if you're not into his wacky brand of overhyped ironic pastiche.
 

Alfons

Way of the future
I wasn't keen on RIP. If memory serves, the intellectual property discussion (i.e. the point of the film) was pretty confused - little effort to differentiate approaches to sampling or to note the difference between sampling and copying/bootlegging, etc. It could also leave the impression that mashup types invented invented sampling - no hip-hop or anything. It was all very white (save for a brief, post-Diplo Brazil detour) and recent. Good that they brought in the Brazilian Cannibalist stuff but they didn't do much with it. And it was a total Girltalk fanboy love-in which is pretty nauseating if you're not into his wacky brand of overhyped ironic pastiche.

second this. Although the Nigerian movie industry thing was interesting (that's from the same movie right, I might be mixing it up with another one I saw on a similar topic?)
 

mms

sometimes
most puke inducing thing i ever heard was a girl talk mash up of wamp wamp by clipse mixed with a grizzly bear track - retch retch
 

Gavin

booty bass intellectual
Trying to integrate filesharing/copyright issues with this recent article from the Economist: "A World of Hits"

Offer music fans a virtually infinite choice of songs free of charge, and they will still gravitate to hits. That has been the experience of We7, a music-streaming service based in London which has 2.5m users. Only 22% of We7’s 4m songs are streamed in any given week, says Steve Purdham, who founded the company. The top 100 artists account for more than half of all streams. Users of Spotify, another ad-supported music service, are similarly unadventurous. Will Page of PRS for Music, which collects royalties for British songwriters, calculates that the most popular 5% of tracks on Spotify account for 80% of all streams. He is counting only the 3m tracks that were streamed at least once between February and July. Another 1.5m were not touched at all.

The vast middle ground dies off -- the only way you can get the music heard is by parasitically latching on to hits... That's why all the tecnobrega is remixes of pop hits. Same thing happens in juke, funk carioca, reggaeton, go-go, etc...
 

evanbbb

Tumbling Dice
most puke inducing thing i ever heard was a girl talk mash up of wamp wamp by clipse mixed with a grizzly bear track - retch retch

Yes it was shit and simple, but it totally killed. I listened to it on repeat and preferred it to the grizzly bear track (but not wamp wamp - nothing beats that). The GB drop worked really well with the drums. The remix wasn't worth putting a name on, then selling on itunes but if it dropped in the club - very yes.
 
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