Hi there and welcome to our official account of Subardo collective! We create a tent at Fusion festival (Lärz, Germany) and arrange our very own "Subardo Festival" at Luppa (close to Leipzig, Germany).

“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

Being a passionate DJ, music nerd and collector of a wide range of sounds – this is what shapes the foundation of Sencha's creative work since more than 30 years. As a result you can experience carefully selected DJ-sets with lots of energy, always providing a certain vibe of musicality, versatility and freshness. Amongst other artist projects of him, this one stands specifically for a colourful blend of Bassmusic and sounds with afro & latinx roots in different tempo and style. Sencha made people dance not only in Europe, but also Asia and Latin America so far. Above that he's part of the BASS PLUS, FEEVAH and earlier AFRO LATIN WHAT?! party collectives, dedicated to organise cutting edge music events - mainly in Leipzig.

INFLUENCES:
artists i've booked or played with... like shut up and dance, altern8, wiley, newcleus, missill, kool keith, kutmasta kurt, motion man, amewu, sam binga, the bongo hop, nidia gongora, riot / buraka som sistema, south rakkas crew, serocee, radio slave, addison groove, baobinga & i.d., infekto aka rico tubbs, mala, 16bit, vex'd, tes la rok, starkey, reso, el-b, jazzsteppa, von d, radioactive man, carl a. finlow aka random factor, legowelt, dexter, sepalcure aka machinedrum & braille, poirier, top billin, al haca, jahcoozi, sinden, douster, bok bok, girl unit, jacques greene, jackmaster, kazey, phon.o, randomer, freq nasty, chesus & rodski aka c.r.s.t., schowi, lawgiverz, flore, aquasky, bajofondo tango club, maga bo, chrissy murderbot, kid kameleon, ripley, chief boima, max le daron, uproot andy, rack'n'ruin, akkachar, bulldogs, tanith, kid fresh, sick girls, mc jammer, flow dan, mc ears, tim turbo, danny scrilla, twisted, bass ill euro, jens mahlstedt, don williams, leeroy thornhill, pentatones, rhythm & sound, tikiman, jahtari, ed2000 & more...

IN THE BAG:
midtempo breakbeat, dubstep, grime, electro, tropical bass, salsa, champeta, afrobeat, mash up, baile funk, bmore, kuduro, afro house, cumbia, reggaeton, dembow, dancehall, bashment, steppaz, uk funky, oldskool & future garage, ghettotech, bootybass, juke, trap, slowfast, footwork, rave alert, oldschool vibes, uk hardcore etc.

Producer I  DJ  I Based in Hanover, Germany 

Bookings: info@fiya-records.com

POK, for some the german Global Bass pope, for others the DJ who’s gonna bring you the sounds of tomorrow. With over 10 years of experience behind the tables he appears to be one of the first representatives of Global Bass music within Germany. Having build up his own event- and artist agency Pokut Music, he has been on the track to spread modern world music for many years now. It is hard to say which songs he’s gonna play next in one of his sets but it is obvious that you’re gonna end up on an around-the-world trip of music paired with a massive load of skills on the fader and vinyl!

Feeling irie, spinning and smashing a good vibe with any kind of bass, dub, reggae and jungle music🔥❤️ ... always ambitious around A&R activities. Smiley and conscious sound culture devotee! 😊🙃 Part of @ulanbator family

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