danca do!

alright, when you hear this it probably won't be much of a surprise, but this stuff was brought into my life by the maddecent blog. of course its that sweet favela or baile funk you hear so little about out of rio de janiero by way of europe. it actually happened as part of the phenomenon where brazilian dj's would pick up vinyls in miami when they played shows in the states, and brought back the miami bass sound to brazil and a whole new genre was born.

for once, the files are small, so make sure and snag these quick and stuff. they're part of a live set by montage and are REALLY REALLY GOOD.

Danca do familia adams

Danca do indiana jones

PS i'm more of a munsters fan myself.

video

first up is maddecents fan vid of the week, no idea who did it. But speaking of sunny days....

aa247 sesame street edit from aaron meola on Vimeo.

apparently they know who did it, as do i. fantastic song right? recognize it from lazy pixel?

next up is an unusually spirited live number from jens lekman, sing along without a smile, i dare you, I DARE YOU. it should be noted that this is a cover of "your beat kicks back like death" by scout niblett.

finally is something that is long overdue. SHARKS. MURDEROUS track by the former test icicles.

A little history lesson

the story begins on a likely rainly day in england, September 17, 1982, when the clash wrote a skinhead anthem entitled "Straight to Hell." the song wasn't really what one might expect from a skinhead anthem, but what would one expect really? they didn't have kottonmouth kings back then.

Now lets jump forward some many years to 2007 when M.I.A.'s Kala was released, and another gem

is found for kids everywhere to get all gangster to, Paper Planes.

and kids everywhere became hardened ganst.... they made dances, really shitty dances.

worse?

Worst?

But hey, aside from the terrible dances, people did some really rad remixes, some with star power!

Then it got huge with the release of pineapple express, which featured the song in its trailer.

And M.I.A. got pregnant, you can't get mad at that. (Oct. 2008)

Then it got intense. hits radio stations started givin you "you heard it here first" paper planes, over a

year late. next thing you know every one and their mom was on that song.

and finally in mid october 2008, La Fonda released her remix, a remix so terrible that it pushed the

producer of PPRPLNS, Diplo to pronounce paper planes dead. i initially though it may have been

premature, but he was right to kill it when he did. just listen, its below the picture

http://maddecent.com/blog/2008/10/06/rip-paper-planes/

and so there you have, a history lesson on your favorite song and perhaps future prom anthem for

years to come. goodday.