Maga Bo

Location:
Rio de Janeiro, Br
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Hardcore / Tropical / Dub
Site(s):
Label:
Soot Records/WordSound/PWI/Tru Thoughts
Type:
Indie
Maga Bo is a producer/DJ based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His work spans the breadth of international urban bass music from hip hop and kwaito to baile funk and jungle ragga to dub, grime and dubstep with flares of samba, rai, bhangra, cumbia, skewed electronic beats and loudspeaker jitter.
Traveling often and widely, he stays weeks at a time connecting and collaborating with local musicians and vocalists. His methods are simple and effective. Armed with a laptop and a microphone, a $6 hotel room anywhere turns into a recording studio. Electronic acquaintances and friends of friends, in person, become musical conspirators, teachers and friends. Over time, a deep musical landscape is being creating that is the collective imprint of this community.
World music is music with truly global reach - 50 Cent, U2, Shakira. This is the other thing - emissions from the flip side where vocals recorded in one room studios on a microphone taped to a refrigerator in lieu of a stand get released on the internet and over local sound systems the same night. By the next day, the track has been sampled again by guys on the other side of the world and mashed up with whatever local concoctions they've got going on. Maga Bo is tapped into and part of this weird new sonic zone.
Maga Bo blogs at Kolleidosonic.
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O norte-americano Maga Bo, radicado no Rio de Janeiro há 10 anos, é produtor musical e DJ trabalhando com uma quebra-cabeça de sons inusitados, graves absurdos e levadas suingadas de todos os continentes. No contexto das contorções digitais de hip hop e dub, ele amassa batucada, rai, capoeira, bhangra, cumbia e batidas eletrônicas numa quebra-cabeça sem fronteiras de sons achados, e ritmos e melodies modificados do mundo todo.
Viajando longe e frequentemente, ele passa semanas conhecendo e colaborando com músicos e vocalistas locais. Os metodos dele são simples e eficáz. Armado com um laptop e um microfone, um quarto de hotel de $6 em qualquer lugar do mundo transforma num estudio de gravação. Conhecidos virtuais e amigos dos amigos, pessoalmente, viram conspiradores músicais, professores e amigos. Com a passagem de tempo, uma paisagem músical está sendo criada que é uma refleção coletiva dessa communidade.
World music é música com um alcance verdadeiramente mundial - 50 Cent, U2, Madonna. Isso é a outra coisa - transmissões do outro lado onde vocais gravadas com um microfone colado numa geladeira com fita adesiva em vez de um pedestal são lançadas na internet e nos sistemas de som locais na mesma noite. No próximo dia, a faixa já tem sido sampleada por caras no outro lado do mundo e amassadas com as batidas de lá. Maga Bo está ligado nessa estranha nova zona músical.



Maga Bo - "Tempos Insanos" feat. MC BNegão
Live at the Funkhaus Europa Global Player party at RUHR 2010, Essen, Germany.



Filmed and edited in Dakar, Senegal, "Fire feat. Xuman" is the first (of three) accompanying video clips for the full length album (there are also two 12" vinyls out too!), Archipelagoes, on Soot Records.



Filmed in Dakar, Senegal, "Saye Mbott feat. ALIF" is the second (of three) video clips to accompany the full length album (there are also two 12" vinyls out too!), Archipelagoes, on Soot Records.



Filmed in Cape Town, South Africa, "Nqayi feat. Teba" is the third video clip to accompany the full length album (there are also two 12" vinyls out too!), Archipelagoes, on Soot Records.
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