Radio Chiguiro launches 1PLACE4BEATS, a series of EPs dedicated to global electronic music. Each chapter will explore a region of the world through the style of four producers. First stop: BRAZIL!
Eager to introduce global electronic music – especially from Africa and Latin America – the label is launching 1PLACE4BEATS, a new series of EPs which will highlight a country or a territory in each episode. Logically, Brazil is kicking off the series with some experienced and emerging producers: Ybryd, Jaca Beats, BDF and Elk give their vision of the Brazilian club scene, mixing house melodies, tropical grooves and baile funk flavors.
For the artwork, each beatmaker sent some photos of their environment to Parallelemental, who created an urban and warm collage, representative of these four bangers!
YBRYD
Based in São José and Rio Preto, in the state of São Paulo, Yuri Pontes aka YBRYD is known for the elegance of his edits regularly released on SoundCloud. Rooted in hip-hop culture, he has been producing fusional music since 2008 and worked behind Brazilian rap and RnB figures like Juyè, Adonai MC and Joe Sujera. He founded the NOVAmente Records label in 2012 and since then has released EPs and singles on various international labels, mixing modern baile funk with trap, future beats, jersey club, garage or house, like on this bright new track “Na PPK”!
JACA BEATS
Based in Volta Rendonda in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Jaca Beats stands out on the underground Brazilian club scene with the freshness of his productions and the energy of his DJ sets. In addition to house, techno, trap and afrobeat, Jaca Beats draws inspiration from his daily life as a Carioca to inject an urban atmosphere into his productions, that sometimes fall on the turntables of the greatest, such as Tropkillaz or Major Lazer. We hope for the same destiny for this erotic and sunny “Dentro do Carro”!
DJ BDF
From Fortaleza in the northeast of the country, the young DJ BDF is making a name for himself on the Brazilian bass music scene. At only 17, he cut his teeth with remixes, beat battles, and with his participation in the Bassmasters album produced by Tommy Martini. A beatmaker since he was 13, he now creates innovative music centered on the dancefloor, using elements of afrobeat, funk or Miami bass. For this EP, he offers the enormous "Tropa Dos Faixa", a new track with a hot and spicy tropical atmosphere!
ELK
With his 085 EP and his participation to the ACIL compilation, ELK is already a regular on the label. A native of Fortaleza, the 21-year-old producer cooks modern and radiant baile funk from his neighborhood of Mondubim. Like many teenagers of his generation, Mikael Lucas observes and absorbs the mutations of carioca funk from the age of 14, before discovering other sub-genres of electronic music, in particular dubstep. On this EP, the hyperactive child of the baile funk avant-garde gets angry on “Rua 12”, a hard-club track with dirty lyrics!
credits
released April 28, 2023
Track 1 composed, mixed and arranged by YBRYD in Brazil.
Track 2 composed, mixed and arranged by Jaca Beats in Brazil.
Track 3 composed, mixed and arranged by DJ BDF in Brazil..
Track 4 composed, mixed and arranged by ELK in Brazil.
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