Friday Night set at this event that had us all with our hearts full <3
Being around our zouk fam, learning and sharing, priceless!!!

Thank you Leo Neves and team for all the energy and love. To all the teachers and students that shared these moments with us, we always feel at home around you all and can't wait to be back to New Zealand soon <3

Friday Night - Rio Beatz Intensive Training 2023

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DCBX - Saturday Night Live

⚡️ Thunder ⛈️ Croatia Zouktime - DJ Sasha X [FREE Download & Use]

Ode to Her: Uma homenagem a elas, em todas as suas nuances e particularidades, como uma tempestade em um dia de verão.

Embrazouk Vozes Femininas - Ode to Her

To cool to be careless - Pawsa (Auler's touch)

Ikiaqqik Between Embraces and Ancestors: When the Arctic Meets the North of Brazil

Some songs don’t just play, they pass through you.
"Ikiaqqik (Levitating)", performed by Riit, is a spiritual and ancestral reimagining of the original song "Levitating" by Dua Lipa. In Inuktitut, ikiaqqik means “to travel through space and time.”
And that’s exactly what happened when I heard this version (not with my ears, but with my heart).
This song moved through me like Arctic wind cuts through white silence.
But I come from heat, from the forest, from the riverbanks.
From dances born of drums, from bare feet on warm ground, from the embrace of Lambada and Brazilian Zouk. And still (or maybe because of it) I recognized myself in it.
This remix is more than rhythm.
It is an act of reverence.
Reverence for a people who sing with their throats what we express with our bodies.
Who survive the ice just as we survive the jungle.
Who turn pain into art, cold into voice, memory into music.
Lambada and Brazilian Zouk were born of mixing: of struggle, joy, and resistance.
Just as Ikiaqqik blends the sacred with the electronic, the ancestral with the now.
In this remix, the Brazilian beat dances with the Inuit soul.
And in that meeting, there are no borders. Only honor.
This is my tribute.
To Riit, who carries her people’s strength in her voice.
To Dua Lipa, who created the original song that sparked this journey.
To the Canada Zouk Congress, on the eve of its 10th anniversary, for being a space of culture, celebration, and human connection.
And to all Indigenous peoples (of ice or of forest) who still dance as a way to exist.

Where I come from, to dance is to remember.
And to remember is to resist.

May this sonic bridge carry us forward, with love, rhythm, and deep respect.

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Ikiaqqik entre abraços e ancestrais: quando o Ártico encontra o Norte do Brasil

Algumas músicas não tocam apenas...atravessam.
"Ikiaqqik (Levitating)", interpretada por Riit, é uma releitura espiritual e ancestral da canção original “Levitating”, de Dua Lipa.
Na língua inuktitut, ikiaqqik significa “viajar através do espaço e do tempo”.
E foi exatamente isso que aconteceu quando ouvi essa versão — não com os ouvidos, mas com o coração.
Essa canção me cortou como o vento gelado do Ártico corta o silêncio branco.
Mas eu sou do calor, da floresta, da beira dos rios.
Sou das festas que nascem do tambor, dos pés descalços, do abraço apertado da Lambada e do Zouk Brasileiro.
E mesmo assim (ou talvez por isso) eu me reconheci.
Este remix não é só ritmo.
É um gesto de reverência.
Reverência a um povo que canta com a "garganta" o que nós dizemos com o corpo.
Que resiste no gelo como nós resistimos nas matas.
Que transforma a dor em arte, o frio em voz, a memória em música.
A Lambada e o Zouk Brasileiro nasceram da mistura: da dor, da alegria e da sobrevivência.
Assim como Ikiaqqik mistura o sagrado com o eletrônico, o ancestral com o agora.
Neste remix, o compasso brasileiro dança com a alma Inuit.
E nesse encontro, não há fronteiras. Só honra.
Esta é minha homenagem.
À Riit, que carrega na voz a força de seu povo.
À Dua Lipa, que criou a canção original que inspirou este movimento.
Ao Canada Zouk Congress, na véspera de seus 10 anos, por ser espaço de celebração, cultura e encontro.
E a todos os povos originários (do gelo ou da floresta) que ainda dançam como forma de existir.

De onde eu venho, dançar é lembrar.
E lembrar é resistir.

Que essa ponte sonora nos leve adiante com amor, ritmo e respeito.

Ikiaqqik (Levitating) - Riit - When the Arctic meets the North of Brazil (Remix DJ Raffro)

Una práctica que salió con mucho amor 🧡 espero la disefrutes

SLOW FLOW- Dj Camilo

*LYRICS*

Baby come home right now 
Kissing on these bitches
I don’t know up in the function 
I rather be alone right now 
This don julio got me 
moving on sum fuck shit 
Need you naked in my room right now 
She rather be outside 
You know a hoe can’t sit down 
Can’t be mad she got that shit from me 
Ima bad influence, don’t you feed into it 
Baby when we fuck, i made sum shit 
To nod yo head to 
I ain’t wanna make love again, 
But damn we need to 
Cutting all my hoes off again, 
but I still keep 2,
Make it clear that I want you,
I don’t need you 
You can steal my heart 
but don’t steal my cup 
It got pain in dis shit 
It’s pain in my cup 
Got no hate in my heart,
no hate in my heart
And my money get longer
The longer we fade apart 
If she don’t play her part,
Don’t wife that hoe 
Inda back of the black truck 
She tryna get it on
back of the black truck 
She tryna fetch ah bone 
Know I’m going to heaven baby,
That’s where the dawgs go.

I don’t wanna spend my nights without you
(Without you)x2
And I got some hoes and 
ah whole lotta drugz
But I wanna party with you 
I wanna spend my..
Ion wanna spent my nights without you
I wanna spend my nights 
Ion wanna spend my nights without you

…(to be continued)

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