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DJ, producer and music lover Tahira is one of Brazil’s hardest working and highly esteemed DJs and music collectors. Whereas most diggers of Brazilian music tend to gravitate towards regional takes on American funk, disco & soul Tahira squares in on the country's rich musical lineage as part of thegreaterAfrican diaspora, with a pronounced emphasis on African rhythms.

Tahira connects the dots between the country's rich musical history, carving out analternate trajectory for black Brazilian culture that valuesAfro-futurism over copycatfunk/soul aesthetics.

He already performed his DJ sets in several important spots respect all over the world as

Glastonbury, Montreux Jazz Festival, Boiler Room, Love Supreme, Phusion, Lot Radio,Worlwide FM and others

His productions are hugely influenced by Brazil, Africa and Latin sounds. And its have been released by several labels as Concord Jazz (Los Angeles), Musica Macondo (London), Bastard Jazz (New York), Wonderwheel (NewYork), Wah Wah 45s(London), Names You Can Trust (NewYork), Far Out (London), Tiff ́s Joint (London), Hot Casa (Paris) and Mucho Ahora Recs (Auckland)

As a music researcher he has two compilation very well received by musical critics and public. “Levanta Poeira” (2018) was chosen as one of the best reissues according NPR website. 

“Brasil Novo” released by London ́s label Musica Macondo focus on contemporary sounds from Brazil.
Best Reissue of 2022 according Sounds and Colours website and records stores as Juno and Mr Bongo. Five stars at Songlines Magazine review

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Just two motherfuckers making bass heavy sounds & beats ! Tons of new shit coming soon. Stay tuned...

DJ, Producer, Sound Designer

With strong old school background but no stranger to modern beats, Audio InFunktion sits perfectly somewhere in between. Hard to categorise and in constant exploration of different musical sounds, unpredictable both as a producer and dj and capable of delivering any kind of beats. You may call him freestyle, or beathead, or bassboy but one thing is for sure – the best is yet to come !

Additionally, he cut his teets at Red Bull Music Academy (Melbourne 2006) and Berlinale Talent Campus (2008) where he made a marvelous connections, collaborations & knowledge of course.

With remixes under his belt for legendary artist Gang of Four (UK), or biggest Balkan band Dubioza Kolektiv, hip hop star Frenkie, or international funk & beats heads like Quincy Jointz (Germany), Ancient Astronauts (Germany), K+Lab (Australia), Buck Rogers (New Zealand) or Danny Massure (USA) put him on a global music map and got him attention from big names from the scene and industry which will led to big stuff in 2013.

As DJ, he rocked festivals like Sonar (Barcelona), Sarajevo Jazz Fest (BH), Tudo Beleza (Montenegro), Terraneo Festival (Croatia), tons of clubs across Europe & Australia and shared dj decks & stages with artist like Dj Vadim, Flying Lotus, Aloe Blacc, LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad, Dj Ollie Teeba (Herbaliser), Dj Zinc, Manu Chao, Phace, Marc Hype, Funkanomics, Jazzanova, Florian Keller, Karen P, Nicola Conte just to name a few... 

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