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Mark E- Call Me (Dixon Edit)

I just returned from a three week stay in Rio De Janeiro. Had an amazing time, hanging with old friends and meeting new people, digging old and new music, visiting countless parties and pre-carnival events. Rio is a music lover´s heaven and I came back to Berlin, inspired. Obviously, it´s Rio´s blossoming funk culture which keeps the city´s music output burning. Now that baile funk has become a global hype it is the cultural pride of the city, mirrored for example in many Afro Blocos dropping a funk tune in their carnival rehearsals. Parallely to its global diffusion, Rio funk is locally morphing into various micro or nano genres. Now that everyone can make music on their celular phone, even the smallest favela has its very own sets of producers and MCs and tracks which feature local or neighbourhood issues. 

Consequently, it feels like every day there´s hundreds new funk tunes popping up on Soundcloud or Youtube, often just getting airplay on one specific baile for a week and then quickly getting discarded. Currently one of the most exciting bailes of the city is the baile in the favela of Santo Amaro which runs every Saturday from midnight to 9am, audible all through the barrios of Lapa and Santa Teresa, dragging huge crowds both from the asfalto and the favela. 

What stunned me the most was the BPM speed with which the funk was booming from the massive sound system of the Santo Amaro baile. From 140 BPM to 160BPM high velocity funk seems to be the sound of the moment, with many tunes surprisingly featuring straight kick drums as a founding rhythm, driving the polyryhtmic batidas and frantic raps on top. Called "Afrofunk" , this current Rio groove sounds like UK funky on Brazilian meth, with some occasional - possibly unconcious - leanings to triplety 3Ball grooves from Monterrey. In short, this sound is hot hot hot, so I´ve quickly put together a 20 min power mix of some of the Santo Amaro tunes I could get hold of. Enjoy!

Baile Funk De Janeiro (2025)

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With this mixtape I wanted to get away from time restraints and fully express my current musical mood so it is a longer mix, full of all the deeper hypnotic aggressive blends I rarely have the time to deploy in radio shows or recent short sets and B2Bs.  It is mostly abrasive techno, sped up percussive tracks and US hard house from all eras. Just a beautiful tunnel of repetitive disorienting raw bang-your-head-on the wall, mental yet feral, electronic four-to-the-floor funk. It took me two weeks to get it perfectly right in one take after multiple failed attempts and technical problems, adjusting the fluidity, trimming and sculpting the tracklist to really reflect what I truly want to play these days without having to cater to anyone but myself. Listen, working on this mixtape gave me an actual tendonitis. This is real home-made triple CDJ artisanal work. Once it was done I facetimed the homie TEZ to ask him to make me an artwork and he delivered it on the spot, in an inversely proportional amount of time it took me to make the mix, which is just chef’s kiss. I hope this hour and 53 minutes of simultaneously intense and soothing music will bring you joy and make you dance.

Ark	- Emba Anthem
Kuss & Sicion	- Dissolve to Evolve
Sleep 300 - Polykite
Marcal - I Wish I Was Born A Cicada
Cypherphunk - Intarder
George Apergis - Ekhowax (Truncate Remix)
Radio Slave - War Dub (Version 2)
0Hatred - Da Groove
Regal86 - Overnight
Lorenzo Senni - Minimalism on Steroids 
Ø [Phase] - Missing (Systems Version)
Pinto - Warehouse Symphony
Carara - Audiogate
Surgeon - Triple Threat (Original Mix)
Regal86 - Tumba
Zisko - Climax 
Butch - Mushroom Man
Regent - Permean (Shed Forceful Pressure Mix)
DJ SAKEE - 2ndWave
SUBMECHANOPHOB1A - Computer End Program 
Alvinho L Noise - Caixa
Breach - Fatherless
SERA J - Syncrosonix
Ludacris x Joe x dj Orgasmic - How Clap Low Trap (dj Orgasmic bootleg)
Maurice - This Is Acid (DJ Love Edit)
Procombo - Keep Your Pants On
Danny B - Shoo
DJ Flaver - lLDE
Ket Robinson & Gannein - Scavengers
DJ Nehpets - Workjuke (Sebastian Prelar Remix Take 2)
DJ Furax - Big Orgus
DJ SAKEE - gravitate
TEZ - Flight of the Alligator			     	
Dj BabaTR - Antena
DJ SWISHERMAN - Asset 4
DJ Rip - Hypnotized 
TEZ - Trimaxion Drone Ship
Mark V and Poogie Bear - WAR
Ceephax Acid Crew - Court of Rave

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