“Speaker-bangin’ before all else” (XLR8R) with “some of the smartest ears in the game” (Chicago Reader), “few can make a room explode like Maga Bo” (Flavorpill). A purveyor of “international sonic weaponry and rhythm knowledge” (Rough Trade), the Rio de Janeiro-based DJ/producer is a veteran pioneer of global bass music, with 20+ years of dedicated experience searching out unheralded music bumping from speaker-boxes in the world’s grittiest corners, from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar. 

Maga Bo’s sophisticated approach to international sounds comes from in-person, on-site collaboration with other artists. He has worked on location in Morocco, India, Ethiopia, Senegal, Zanzibar, and South Africa, to name just a few, while delving into a whirlwind of local styles: chaâbi, asmari music, taraab, manganiyar folk music, masqanda, and mbalax. All instruments and vocals come straight from the source. His original riddims and recordings, enriched by the presence of live vocalists and percussion, and enhanced by the philosophies of hip-hop and dub, take the global bass DJ set to a new level, one driven by first-hand experience searching open-air markets instead of just searching the web. 

His current work explores the contours of Afro-Brazilian culture and includes collaborations with the brightest talents in Brazil’s vast musical landscape. An immigrant himself, Maga Bo put down roots in his adopted hometown of Rio -- a cultural melting pot like no other where he has produced baile funk MCs and played drums in his neighborhood samba school. Journeys to Brazil’s northeast region have resulted in recording sessions with unsung folklore heroes Grupo Bongar and Samba de Coco Raízes de Arcoverde. 

A globally in-demand performer, Maga Bo has graced stages from India to Ethiopia to Brazil, at major summer festivals across Europe, and on tour in North America and Australia. He has performed at WOMAD UK, WorldWide, Sydney Festival, WOMEX, Transmediale and Mundial. He’s collaborated with Buraka Som Sistema’s Kalaf, Max Normala aka Ninja of South African rap-rave outfit Die Antwood, Ethio-Jazz godfather Mulatu Astatke, Bollywood star Shilpa Rao, and Brazilian chart toppers BaianaSystem and BNegão, and released critically acclaimed remixes for Asian Dub Foundation, Batida, Bomba Estéreo, Poirier, Filastine, and Systema Solar. 

Maga Bo’s groundbreaking debut full-length album, Archipelagoes, was released on DJ /rupture's Soot Records in 2008 after recording sessions in Senegal, Tanzania, Morocco and South Africa with heavyweight local rappers and musicians. His second full-length, Quilombo do Futuro, landed at #1 on the iTunes Brazilian music chart and #1 on the Rhapsody world music album of the year. The album was lauded by the New York Times as “a cultural manifesto riding on rhythm” and by National Public Radio (NPR) as “defin[ing] a kind of virtual refuge for traditional culture, giving it a welcome place in the techy global music soundscape of the 21st century." 

His track, ”No Balanço da Canoa,” garnered over half a million views on Youtube and was featured in Grand Theft Auto V and the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He’s released music on Jarring Effects, Tru-Thoughts, Ninja Tune, Sound Way, ZZK, Cumbancha and many others. 

He currently releases confrontational, bass-heavy digital roots music from all over Brazil on Kaxambu Records and is an integrant of the live tropical-electro soundsystem band, Sociedade Recreativa. 

Having performed and worked in over 50 countries, Maga Bo walks the walk of the real globalization. Music is the weapon in a world of cultural appropriation, wide-spread poverty and mass migrations. 

Maga Bo bookings - booking*at*magabo.com

I am a desperate record collector of mainly african grooves and I amhosting a show on german national radio Deutschlandradio Kultur. In addition to the facebook profile of that one, I am going to present here some of my favorite records. 
Hope you'll have fun listening!!

guitarrista, multi-instrumentista e produtor musical que explora afinações, texturas, manipulação de eletrônicos acessando transformações em acordes tortos, meditações semi-breves e respirações na criação de obras sonoras, livre improvisação e reconstrução de temas autorais.

We make musical instruments: Organelle, ETC video synthesizer.
Music is the Best!

Mulú is the pseudonym of Rio de Janeiro DJ and music producer Antonio Antmaper, one of the artists responsible for the renewal of Brazilian electronic music.
 
He was one of the creators of the sound signature of singer Pabllo Vittar in 2015, co-producing her debut EP “Open Bar”, mixing samba and other Brazilian rhythms with electronic beats in “minaj” and “open bar”, a work recognized as a revolution in Brazilian pop music .
 
His sound caught the attention of music researcher Hermano Viana and artists such as Zé Gonzales from the duo Tropkillaz, who invited him to their Buuum Trax label, and also international artists such as Diplo, who described Mulú as one of his favorite Brazilian artists and as a key person in the connection of the Brazilian music scenes in his program on British radio BBC.
 
Mulú remixed and released songs in partnerships ranging from the experimental by Arto Lyndsay to the popular by Wesley Safadão, passing through Elza Soares and Baiana System. He was featured in the English newspaper The Guardian who described his remix of Elza Soares's The Woman at the End of the World as “A gloriously audible salivation”.
 
In 2021, received the platinum single for 16 million plays in the streaming of her song “Meu Jeito de Amar” in partnership with Pernambuco singer Duda Beat, Lux & Tróia.
 
As a DJ, Mulú performed in several cities around the world, going through major festivals such as Tomorrowland, Electronic Daisy Carnival.

hey y'all, its us.
lets connect at facebook, twitter, insta
or via email. also, the support link above goes to our bandcamp, lots of goodness over there. 

BOOKING WORLDWIDE:
booking@schlachthofbronx.com

PRESS/OFFICE:
ismael@schlachthofbronx.com

we love you all!
j&b
schlachthofbronx

pedromarighella@gmail.com

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