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Dec21

Best of ‘09: Indie Heart & Electro Beat (Areti)

Kiss 2009 Goodbye: Highlights through the Lens of Music 

I played Drake’s “Best I Ever Had” in groups of six, saw Wilco back-to-back at The Wiltern, put my right-hand high with Kid Sister, blew a kiss to Ben Gibbard as Hollywood Bowl exploded with fireworks, chilled with A Place to Bury Strangers, worked-out to Miike Snow, beatboxed with Matis, moved to Silver Lake, boogied down at Nightmares on Wax, got blinded by Mandy’s rock, took my clothes off at Phoenix…

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Jun17

Curumin – JapanPopShow (Review)

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JapanPopShow

Released by JapanPopShow


Quannum's Brazilian boy wonder Luciano Nakata Albuquerque (Curumin) made a splash with his 2005 debut, Achados e Perdidos, which was chock full of organic favela club bangers, psychedelic garnishes and hip-hop trimmings. It's his follow up JapanPopShow where he lets the waters gently ripple with a heady m'lange of dub spices, lounge grooves, cooled down samba, more hat tipping to his nation's music of the '70s from the likes of Os Mutantes, Jorge Ben, and early Caetano Veloso. Curumin's Portuguese crooning rides gently over the instrumentation, most ...

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