Funk Carioca/Baile Funk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baile_funk

I don't know that there's any defining compilation on the genre.

This site used to have a lot of good mixes for download, but they've been down for quite a while:
http://evil-wire.org/~ampere/mp3/funky

It used to look like this:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060514192536/http://www.evil-wire.org/~ampere/mp3/funky/

The funk neurotica and funk cruel comps were quite good.

Thanks to Miami Bass History member DJ Eletro (no c), and later, DJ Nazz, I've been learning and collecting Brazilian Bass music for years now, sitting on piles of this stuff dating back to 1989. That's what fed most of my info on that wiki entry (about 1/4 - 1/3 of the entry). Eletro was the guy who gave me a long lesson on the term usage, which made over the whole wiki entry.

None of that early 1989 stuff sounds anything like this new breed the hipsters are jumping all over though. The main thing to know about modern Funk is the heavy heavy use of DJ Battery Brain's 1988 California Electro Bass track 808 Volt Mix and Frank Cornelius's (Thumbs & The Hoestiles) 1985 Miami Electro/Rap track "Let's Get Started (which was based on the Munsters theme song during the days of Doug E. Fresh's use of Inspector Gadget):

http://www.discogs.com/release/47708

http://www.discogs.com/release/98549

Thumbs & The Hoestiles was simply Frank as far as I know. Frank Cornelius is the youngest sibling of the "Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose" family, who had early 70s hits with "To Late to Turn Back Now" and "Treat Her Like a Lady". He wasn't in that group, but the bass player in the late 70s contemporary Jazz group Nite Flyte, which also began the career of the soul singer Howard Johnson.

So what are the chances of a defining comp of this stuff coming out? Are are the rights issues too complex?

From what I've heard, the new breed of Brasilian funkateers are sampling stuff with impunity, the way hip-hoppers in the 80s did. Course that's gonna create problems for legit releases in the US.

Keepin' it on the DL has a new meaning now.

The community we were in together shut down, and we kind lost track of one another.

Recently (about a year ago), he slsk msgs me asking for where certain samples in known Hip-Hop songs come from. One I remember was the sample in Tone Loc's Wild Thing. I thought he was joking, but come to find out, he really was unaware of Van Halen's "Jamie's Crying". Anyway...

I came to find out he had started a Funk group called Bonde Do Role and was sampling parts of Wild Thing, but they needed to know about Jamie's Crying as they were actually clearing the samples...but that might have to do with their international Diploized status. I really don't know.

I think the real issue though is the history of Brazilian Bass is so in depth that no one could tackle it with the tokenism it's being approached with now.

A Maryland-born, Boston college kid who spent some time in Brazil last summer (but is now in Paris) published some interesting stuff on his blog back around October 15th, October 7th and earlier. His blog is called beat diaspora http://beatdiaspora.blogspot.com/

He also linked to a long grad thesis by someone named Paul Sneed called : Machine Gun Voices: Bandits, Favelas and Utopia in Brazilian Funk.

I have not read it yet.