Chernobyl

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Brazilian producer Chernobyl sets his focus on Southern Brazil's tango-influenced sounds, creating a mix of house and cumbia here that he calls "Le Cheval." That track is pretty busy, but remixes from Cavalo Horse, Horatio, Lorcan Mak and Yolanda Be Cool all settle things down, taking things into a more dubby, cumbia-techno direction (think Samim's "Heater"). You also get a nice tech-house-meets-baile-funk b-side here, titled "Hooli-Gun-Yo," which features raps from Russian trio Bazooka Boom. Pretty nice Balkan sound on that one. Also, the press notes for this release include the phrase "Maybe this is the fucking answer to DIE ANTWOORD," so that's pretty awesome too. Six tracks in all.



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Since 1995 DJ Chernobyl has had a profound effect on the direction Brazil's music scene. He is a pioneer and an influencer and is responsible for bringing Baile Funk (brazilian booty beat) to the world of rock through his band "Comunidade Nin-Jitsu",

influencing Edu K to produce his world famous hit "Popozuda".

Having produced 5 records with "Comunidade Nin-Jitsu", more than 500gigs and they were the support band of Red Hot Chili Peppers in Brazil (2002). Chernobyl discovered and signed Bonde de Role and produced their album, introduced them to Diplo (who released them on his Mad Decent label) and has produced 08 of the 12 tracks on their album (“With Lasers”), out on Domino Records. DJ Chernobyl is a producer / DJ with a global reputation,having released “Spunk Scat and Politics” (on KSR, same label as Deep Dish, Chromeo, Armand Van Helden,CSS.), 2 "Bailectro" compilations (on Chateau Disc) in Japan. In 2007, he was the only brazilian artist that played in the Fuji Rock Festival, in the same stage as Justice, Simian Mobile, Groove Armada, A-Track, etc. After the japanese tour, he performed in Sweden with Thunder Heist, DJ Nibc and Johan from Radioclit. In 2006 he performed at Transmusicales (France) with Edu K and DJ Missill.

In Brazil he produced tracks for the album “ Pancadão do Caldeirão do Huck” wich was in the Top 5 of the best sellers and he released his own compilation called “Neo Funk” (Som Livre) wich included the new generation of baile-funk artists that he had worked for in remixes and productions (Bonde do Role, Edu K, Turbo Trio, Deise Tigrona,etc). In 2008, Chernobyl performed in Moscow (Denis Simachev Bar), Kiev with Zhiguli (Xlib Club) and Berlin with Shir Khan, MC Bunny Rabbit (NY), DJ Supermarkt and Jack Tennis at Scala Club. 2009 started with a tour from Porto (Portugal), to Munich and Viena. Recently Chernobyl signed remixes for N.A.S.A. (“Whatchadoin”, with M.I.A. and Spank Rock) , MIXHELL and Tigarah, from Tokyo for Universal Music.

This DJ subverts whatever style of music he plays, from electro, miami bass, 80s, Brazilian old school baile funk, Baltimore Club, or Rock n Roll, bending it all to his NEO BAILE FUNK style.



DISCOGRAPHY :

-Bonde do Role , Tabaco EP (Mad Decent, U.S)

-Bonde do Role, With Lasers (Domino Records, U.K.)

-Bonde do Role, Office Boy EP (Domino Records, U.K.)

-Bonde do Role, Solta o Frango EP (Domino Records, U.K.)

-Spunk Scat and Politics - including CSS (KSR records, Japan)

-Bailectro 01 and Bailectro 02 (Chateaudisc, Japan)

-Edu K, Gatas EP (Man Recordings, German)

-RQM, Misspacman (Exploited records, German)

-The Touch, Le Night Dominator (Trunkfunk, Sweden)

-DJ Chernobyl presents: Neo Funk (Som Livre, Brasil)

-Pancadão do Caldeirão do Huck (Som Livre, Brasil)

-COMUNIDADE NIN-JITSU, Atividade na Laje (2008)