The German Capital Berlin with its Techno and Minimal monoculture and a club culture flooded by tourists searching for the “Berlin sound” is not really known to be a Capital for Tropical and Bass music. Although there is a handfull of DJs who try to establish the sound in Berlin club life.
Since today there is a new regular in town: Bamboo Bass (in cooperation with TropicalBass.com) – a global bass troop on their mission through the urban music jungle, loaded with the latest Tropical Bass, Moombathon, UK Funky and African club sounds.
New, innovative sounds taken from the underground scenes of musical hot spots all over the world are presented in an
inspiring mix. Tunes from London to Kingston and Rio to Johannesburg are mixed up to a vibrant set, full of energy.
The party is held at What?! club including a 2nd floor with Dancehall/Reggae. Bamboo Bass Facebook event page.
Lineup:
A Skitzo (French Kiss FM – Sarajevo) soundcloud
Pablo Gunzales (Mad Again/Distillery – Leipzig) soundcloud
Doc Daneeka – Drums in the deep
Funkystepz – Shocker
Greenmoney – Boomticka
Tomb Crew – Inna Dat (Rico Tubbs Club Mix)
Crazy Cousins & MC Versatile – Funky Anthem
Foreign Beggars & Vato Gonzales – Badman Riddim
Lady Chann & Dreadsquad – Island Lovin (Grodio UK Funky Remix)
Omar – Dancing (Instrumental)
Omar – Dancing
Zinc & Ms Dynamite – Wile Out
Katy B & Ms Dynamite – Lights On (Los Guaracheros Remix)
Major Lazer – Pon di Floor (Dj KlaC 3Ball Remix)
DJ Tetris – Sudafrika (Mundial Mix)
Jumping Back Slash – Kwaai Sneakers (Erick Rincon Remix)
Slap In The Bass – Egypt (Hostage Remix)
Sabbo – I’m Ready
DJ Gregory & Gregor Salto feat. The Serafim Crew – Paris Luanda (Sabo Moombahton Remix)
DJ Buxxi & DJ Buñuelo feat. Eddy Jey & el Michel – Rumba Loca
Drop The Lime – Sex Sax (Doc Adam Moombahton Edit)
Buraka Som Sistema – Hangover (BaBaBa) (Ckrono’s Rui Costa style Moombahton Edit)
Ding Dong – Badman pullup (Chong-X Remix)
Alison Hinds – Wine To Deh Back (Patty Cake Riddim)
Rupee – Stand Up Against Wall (Patty Cake Riddim)
Skinny Fabulous feat. Danielle Veria – Glory Glory (Patty Cake Riddim)
Machel Montano – Gyal Wuk (Whistle Riddim)
Shal Marshall – Don’t Stop Wine (Rich Boy Riddim)
Tipanic – Like A Snake (Marflix Roadmix)(Re-arranged)
Appietus featuring 4X4 – Miss Doctor (Malibu Funky mix)
Jessy Matador – Decale Gwaada
Magic System – Zouglou Dance
Obour – Where the Money Go Dey
Dj Patrick & Aleluia – O Pato
Dj Djeff – Elegom Bounsa feat. Maskarado (Main Mix)
Dj Djeff – Elegom Bounsa (Los Carlos Kuduro Bootleg)
Big Nelo – Hoje e Surra
Batida – Yumbala
Titica – Chao
Buraka Som Sistema & Pongo Love – Kalemba (Wegue Wegue)
Buraka Som Sistema & Blaya & Roses Gabor – We Stay Up All Night
Opium Flirt – Ratatouille (Bert On Beats Remix)
Canblaster & Berou – Kapongo Dance
Pocz & Pacheko – Tuki Love
Bert On Beats – Alemao (feat MC Gi)
Onyenze – Onwa Nna Na Nwa (Schlachthofbronx Remix)
Fuego & El Cata – Look At Me Now (Merengue Electronico Remix)
Some fresh mixes outta Berlin. Even if there are almost no tropical parties and massive, nuff DJs jump on the train and work hard to get their people hype on the sound. We want to give you a brief update on what our fellow Berlin DJs have been doing lately.
Fat Eric (Bandulero Sound) – put ya f##k’n HANDS up! #1
Fat Eric and his sound Bandulero is a veteran. In the last few years you saw him spinning a lot of Coupe Decalé and other african music. This mix contains some exclusive productions by ArtFX who recently did some remixes for Akwaaba Music.
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Two mixes come out of the SWS Crew: Silent Pressure did a mix covering many genres from House to Balkan Tech stuff.
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Another mix called Moombahtonito comes out of the SWS kitchen – listen to it at Mixcloud, download at sws-sound.de.
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DJ Zhao aka Ngoma Sounds just did the 10th edition of his Ngoma series.
Umlilo means fire in Zulu, and this mix takes us back to the Dirty South for a scorching ride through raw township sound. Exchanging smooth for ruff, Umlilo focuses on the connection between ghetto Rap and current Electro, between modern SA House and its Kwaito roots.
Umlilo can be found on his website.
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If you want to recatch the crazyness and madness of Berlin Carnival in June with almost 100 trucks and a million people celebrating and dancing on the streets you might go over to my website and dive into Riddims Tropicale #14 – a 2-hour jump-up live mix full of carnival vibes with Soca, Funana, Kuduro, Zouk, Soca and of course Soca.
Global Bass, Ghetto Tech, “Fifth World Music”, Worldmusic 2.0 – many names for a phenomen that is getting more and more attention lately not only on the urban dancefloors of this planet, but also by worldwide media (a fact regular readers of our blog will be familiar with).
This weekend ¡RADICAL RIDDIMS! in Berlin will not only bring you an excellent musical line-up, but also an exhibition of international video works, documentary films and lectures, in which the curators will set “the spotlight on the various local musical scenes and ‘hyper hybrid’ club music, as well as discuss the connections and disparities between key concepts like regionality and globality, citation and original creation, copyright and authorship, digitality, internet and web cultures, as well as the phenomenon of image transfer in popular culture.” Well, sounds like a deal. Continue Reading
New party series in Berlin every Thursday hosted by DJ Zhao: come and celebrate Spring with DJ Zhao and friends. Tropical, African and Caribbean vibes. The opening starts with Marflix, Zhao and a percussionist.
APRIL 14 – DJ ZHAO + MARFLIX (TROPICAL BASS)
APRIL 21 – DJ ZHAO + BOOM BROTHERS
APRIL 28 – DJ ZHAO + DOVECAKE
MAY 05 – DJ GRACE KELLY (MUNDO MIX) + ALEX (HAT’N’HOODIE)
The Sick Girls are an institution in Berlin when it comes to a global, bass-heavy sound that makes you wiggle on the dancefloor. They are active as DJs for a couple of years know and well known for their party series Revolution N°5 which brought some of the most interesting artists in contemporary Urban Bass Music to Berlin over the past years (e.g. Kano, Radioclit, Dizzee Rascal, Matt Shadetek, Goldielocks, Mumdance, Mitchell Brothers, Wiley, Spankrock….). On the occasion of their recent mixtape-release on BBE (also including their debut production “V Skank”) I had a little talk with Alex & Johanna about Berlin, ass-kicking music and diversity of styles… Continue Reading
I have not only had an opportunity to meet Fredi, also known as DJ Chernobyl, but I’ve also had the chance to catch two fantastic gigs and steal some of his time to do an interview. This guy has been all over the place and on everyone radar as of lately. We must first give thanks for his amazing hand in producing Bonde Do Role’s album titled With Lazers. If it wasn’t for his discovery of the festive, dance floor shaking, eclectic group, they would have never been introduced to Diplo and therefore would not have been introduced to the world in such a perfect manner. Many of you may know him from a band called Comunidade Nin-Jitsu, with who he composed the first bailefunk tracks out of the Rio de Janeiro’s favelas in the 90s. They were also the support band of Red Chili Peppers in Brazil and won two VMB’s (MTV Music Brazil awards). This guy has definitely been keeping busy producing track for labels around the globe, such as Universal Music Japan, Exploited Berlin, Man Recordings, Mad Decent, and Domino Records. Did I mention he is extremely badass? Let’s hear what he has to say! Continue Reading
Man Recordings – one of the labels setting the the corner stone, building a foundation for the global recognition of “non-Western”, locally specific, Electronic Dance Music – is celebrating 5 years in the business. Perfect occasion to sit down with label-founder Daniel Haaksman and talk about his relation to Baile Funk, about his reasons for running a label like this and about the special situation of being located in Berlin.
Don’t forget: there will be series of anniversary parties throughout Europe, kicking-off in Berlin this weekend. For detailed dates see below ;)
We already told you: Man Recordings is turning 5 this year and we are proud to be one of the presenters of it’s big birthday bash in Berlin next weekend, Friday September 3rd.
We are not only more than happy to congratulate one of the first labels to push local Dance/Bass Music in a global context for the first 5 years in the business, we are also looking forward to a huge party with guests like Schlachthofbronx, Zombie Disco Squad, Marina Vello and label-owner Daniel Haaksman himself.
And as we know for sure that you want to join us in the celebration, we have 2×2 spots on the guest list just for you, my shiny happy people. Just tell us in the comments why you do love Man Recordings (and don’t forget to leave your email)!! Deadline is Wednesday evening, 11 PM.
So don’t be shy, we are waiting for you!
As a little appetiser check this new tune from the upcoming anniversary compilation and stay tuned for a huge interview with Daniel Haaksman! Purr Na Na by Daniel Haaksman / Man Rec
