“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

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DJ & Music Producer from Brazil
Booking: s4tanmusic@gmail.com

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FurmigaDub is the meeting of northeastern popular culture of Brazil, Parahyba, with contemporary electronic music. Since 2011, Furmiga has been using his musical knowledge to establish a bridge between the rhythms he grew up listening to, such as ciranda, caboclinho and baião, and the beats of the increasingly effervescent bass music. In the project FurmigaDub and Seu Bando, Fabiano Formiga presents to the public some of the names that were important in his trajectory, among them Anita Garyballdi, Alex Madureira, Caiana dos Crioulos and Marinho.

FurmigaDub é o encontro da cultura popular nordestina com a música eletrônica contemporânea. Desde 2011, Furmiga vem usando seu conhecimento musical para estabelecer uma ponte entre os ritmos que cresceu ouvindo, como ciranda, caboclinho e baião, e as batidas da cada vez mais efervescente bass music. No projeto FurmigaDub e Seu Bando, Fabiano Formiga apresenta ao público alguns dos nomes que foram importantes na sua trajetória, entre eles Anita Garyballdi, Alex Madureira, Caiana dos Crioulos e Marinho.

Art Producer. 
Tech House / Techno / Experimental

Bookings / Management: damaziomusic@gmail.com

A DJ femininja Shaitemi Muganga desenvolve um projeto de discotecagem feminista, em que privilegia a música composta, cantada e produzida por mulheres cis e pessoas trans. Com interesse especial nas variadas sonoridades do mundo, principalmente as de origem africana, seu som passeia pelo samba, coco, brega e outras brasilidades, além de rap, funk, dub, afrobeat e diversas batidas latinas. 
Shaitemi integra o coletivo feminista NINFEIAS (Ouro Preto/MG), com que realiza diversos eventos nas ruas da cidade barroca, conjugando performance e discotecagem, e já atuou em eventos como Zona Lamm - Laboratório de Artes Musicais para Mulheres, DiversaS - Mostra Feminista de Arte e Resistência e a Semana Hip Hop: empoderamento feminino. 
Discotecagem amorosa e afro groove pra balançar até se acabar!
Fotas baphas: Moana Marques e Mariane W Murase.

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