LAVOURA ELETRO

Lavoura Eletro is a hybrid Brazilian musical group that turns on through the fusion of electronic, jazz, brazilian music and african futurism. Since the late 1990s, musician and producer TRZ, together with the bass player Fabiano (DJ IB) and Paulo Pires, played in a popular local Sao Paulo band called Mercado de Peixe. But while the three of them were living in Bauru, they created a side project of pro-groove beats named Musikalikida. In 2003, DJ IB and TRZ started a new project called Lavoura Eletro, a reference to a novel by author Raduan Nassar Lavoura Arcaica. Using samples and remixing genres like samba, house, dub, hip hop, afro beat, IDM, Brazilian Popular Music (MPB) and drumnbass their performances became quite popular, playing raves and clubs all over the Sao Paulo State.

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Sussuarana Lo-Fi Adventures
Grass (Reform-Mix)
Wake Up To The Law
Freak Sunday
Rainha Do Sol
Carnaval Triste

ALMA MATER

Alma Mater are a brazilian band formed recently in january, 2006. They style has easily identifiable connections to genres like shoegaze, post-rock and its reminded UK bands as Coldplay and Radiohead. The band is releasing their debut single "Biodestruct" and I am sure you will love the song "Taken" composed by Daniel Watanabe. I would like to thank to my friends Edgar and Luciano from São Paulo that introduced me these guys.

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ALMA MATER
Taken
The Morning Star
The Wakening
Orbiter

SUPERPHONES

Superphones is compared with Radiohead and Flaming Lips but I mean that these guys from Porto Alegre are more brazilian than lots of tropicalists and mpbeats groups from Bahia and Rio de Janeiro. Ok, they sing in english but what is up? Recently they oponed to Placebo on brazilian tour. Since 2000 when we got they first single we have been playing their songs on Último Volume and our listeners always ask to plat it again. "Dust" translate everything about them.

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SUPERPHONES
Dust
Down The Drain
Just Watching
Where have you been?
9th Floor
Lonely Dance
grown ups (cassino hotel mix)

PALE SUNDAY

Brazil enters the pop race with Pale Sunday, a lovely little jingle-jangle pop group. Their singer has this lovely, affecting voice, made even more saucy by his accent! At times, they sound like a South American Lucksmiths, which, believe me, couldn't possibly be a bad thing! "A Weekend With Jane" kicks off the single, and oooooh, it's dreamy! "Go Ahead" is a bit more rockin', though "Today" slows things down and gets a little more romantic. "The Girl With Sunny Smile" ends with a P!o!p!, and I'm enthralled and, once again, left eager for their next record! Hurry hurry, Jimmy Matinée! Single Of The Week. --Mundane Sounds

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PALE SUNDAY
A Weekend With Jane
The White Tambourine
My Punk Girl
Strangeways
I Know It's Over

POSTAL BLUE

Postal Blue from Brasilia, aims to create a general mood of aimless, beautiful depression by combining the dreamy gauze of shoegazer music with the airy beauty of their home country's bossa nova. This results in an intoxicating combination of genres that generally eschews the concise pop format. The individual tracks are less songs than explorations of mood and tonal color, even Ribeiro's breathy, gender-ambiguous vocals (think Astrud Gilberto meets Morrissey) act as just another layer in a tangled concoction of sound where it is even impossible to separate what sounds are coming from acoustic guitars and what sounds are being made by electric ones.

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POSTAL BLUE
The World Doesn't Need You
Puzzle
Weather Sensitive
I Know Where Your Dreams Go
Stand And Stare