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Diplo – aka Tupelo’s Wes Pentz – is also overlord of the Mad Decent imprint (Bonde do Role, DJ Blaqstar), while his critically acclaimed, hard to find and party-starting mix CDs include Favela On Blast (Rio Baile Funk 04), Favela Strikes Back, and M.I.A. v Diplo’s underground masterwork, the swaggering Piracy Funds Terrorism.
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London’s Hebden – aka contempo artisan Four Tet – runs rings around his stellar contemporaries with an unparalleled palette of hip-hop and techno; drum loops and birdsong; gentle funk and grizzly beats; obscure folk and neo-classical sweeps: as avidly evinced on 2003’s Rounds dispatch; 2005’s follow up, Everything Ecstatic (Domino); and on remixes for artists such as Radiohead, Goldfrapp, Bloc Party and Aphex Twin.
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Gilles Peterson’s bearing on popular culture is vast: his inexorable ardour for untapped music – be it global fusion, pioneering hip-hop, radical Brasiliana, cinematic arias, arcane jazz or urban soul – has seen him rightly and universally lauded as one of the most critical DJs, tastemakers and broadcasters in the world.
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Wily Welsh pop warlock Gruff Rhys is synonymous with technicolour army tanks, fifty-foot bears, and myriad chart hits as front-man of bonkers techno rockers Super Furry Animals.
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Glasgow’s insurgent Optimo hoedown is one of Europe’s most notorious club nights. Its protagonists JD Twitch and JG Wilkes have instigated searing weekly aural orgies from the likes of Franz Ferdinand, ESG, The Long Blondes and The Go! Team since 1997, while their pop-lubed, synth humped, punk-struck dogma propels their DJ sets to clamouring rapture.
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Fife champion rhapsodist and Fence Collective reign supreme, King Creosote is one of Scotland’s most precious and prodigious craftsmen: his beatific squeezebox ditties, tavern shanties, amber psalms and heart-dropping ballads are the stuff of wonder.
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Sao Paulo’s coveted Open Field Church is an intimate collective of Brasilian musicians who collaborate live with the likes of Belle & Sebastian; and who warmly peddle “ultra special reunions of friends around uplifting experiences”.
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Saviours of Brasil’s Tropicalia revolution – alongside the illustrious likes of Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa and Gilberto Gil – Os Mutantes defied and galvanised the country’s artistic identity during the late 60s and early 70s: a period of livid aesthetic and ideological upheaval whose paroxysm of invigorated sounds and ideas still enliven global music over 30 years later.
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Eurocrunk rude-boys Radioclit solicit a racy, wanton orgy of glitch-hop, lewd grime, Bhangra-techno, lubed electro, R&B and acid-pop. Winking toward Britney Spears, Bronski Beat and grubbed-up hip-hop, Radioclit’s lascivious pleasures are revered and defiling in equal measure.
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Channelling the aural warmth of Jose Gonzales, Gilberto Gil and Gal Costa, Sao Paulo’s enchanting Romulo Froes released his second album – Cao (YB Music) – in 2006: and with it quietly affirmed his position as one of Brasil’s finest songwriting talents.
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