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Album Review - Tue 21 Nov 2000
THE BOYZ FROM BRAZIL - THE BOYZ FROM BRAZIL (YA BASTA!)
Released on: Tue 21 Nov 2000
Paris' Latin house duo and force beind Ya Basta! Records, the Boyz From
Brazil, aka Philippe Cohen and Christophe Muller, have built something of a
buzz around their first four EP releases.
Showing the way on the increasingly popular trick of blending Bahia
carnival beats with contemporary production qualities and dance floor
sensibilities, their singles have been spun on the decks of in-the-know
luminaries such as Francois K, UFO, Jazzanova, Rainer Truby and Mr Scruff.
Their debut album is as rich and accessible as the singles have been. The
tracks here take Latin house as the starting base and then meander over the
gamut of dance music, fusing hip hop breaks into bossa beats and even
allowing Latin music of the puffy sleeved, maraca shaking variety to do a
little turn.
The most surprising offering comes the end of CD2, when we're taken into
amutant opera house and treated to a few arias being shafted by awesomely
dramatic bottom end trickery. From here we build into a forlorn desert
scene over looking a Mexican hacienda as Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson
disappear over opposite horizons. And then, just a you've got used to the
idea the album has transformed into a spaghetti western, those Latin beats
start to role in again.
The block party begins I earnest on CD2, with percussion breaking into
funked up wah slabs of deep house spiked by clipped conga rolls and acidic
bass lines. Finally the package rides out on claming coastal samples.
An almost faultless release. the next time the BFBs through a party, do
anything to get on the invite list. Meanwhile get this album.
Ben Osborne
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