First batch of good weather here in the midwest, definitely time to get some reggae in the playlist. Last couple of years though I've been leaning towards brazilian music for that summmer vibe. Times being as they are I of course stumbled across this awesome blog of brazilian music. There is more on there than anyone really needs, some older stuff with limited appeal and some album rips of dubious fidelity
(you might be into that). I would reccommend going right for the heavy hitters, staritng with these Jorge Ben Albums:
http://rapidshare.com/files/90534507/tbb1974_Jorge_Ben_A_Tabua_de_Esmeralda.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/226232998/tbb1970_Jorge_Ben_-_For_a_Bruta.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/56044898/tbb_1969Jorge_Ben.rar
These three are everything you want in a Brazilian vibe. Spanning the late 60's early 70's, they have a nice groove balanced between his earlier straight up Bossa Nova type stuff and the Electric funkiness of his Africa Brasil album. They also have some very poppy moments, perhaps a tad too fruity for some of you but they are worthy nonetheless. Two of these have been reissued by Dusty Groove if that is any indicator of their cred.
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I came across a tropicalia comp a few years ago, fell in love with it and have been wanting to dive deeper since. The Jorge Ben track on there was a highlight, so thanks for this.
On my way...
word up. i agree, brazilian joints tie reggae for summer time tracks.
Scott Herren shouted out a bunch of brazilian lps in an article in Wax Poetics a few years ago around influences to the first Savath y Savalas LP... i'll dig that up and see if i can track them down on this blog.
i believe that brazilian music surpasses reggae for summer music, though i admit that i like reggae more now than i used to.
i have some caetano veloso, os mutanes (of course), gilberto gil, and tom ze. i got most of that stuff from a friend, so i cannot direct you to the promised land of brazilian music. still, if you search your blog crawler for those guys, you'll do okay. i also have baile funk: the brazilian beat mix, and baile funk II:agora e moda. this is much more discoey. sometimes it's awesome, and sometimes it is less than awesome, but i'd have no problem leaving either of them on at a backyard cookout. I thought i had a really sweet tropicalia comp as well, but i can't seem to locate it.
That blog Gabe posted has like 15 Os Mutantes albums. Score.
Soul Jazz has that sweet Tropicalia Comp.
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