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DJ DOLORES | DJ Dolores (aka Helder Aragão) has been active in the ebullient musical scene of his hometown Recife since his collaboration with Mangue Beat originators Chico Science and Nação Zumbi in the late ‘80s.
He then worked as a graphic designer, TV documentary producer, soundtrack composer for films and theatre before adopting the turntables and sampler as a means of expression.
He has remixed tracks for Gilberto Gil, Tribalistas, Fernanda Porto and Taraf de Haïdouks, was invited to take part (alongside David Byrne and the Beastie Boys) in Wired Magazine's Rip, Mash, Sample, Share project in support of the Creative Commons licenses, wrote and recorded soundtrack music for Brazilian films A Máquina and Narradores de Javé, and has won several awards in Brazil and abroad (including the 2004 BBC World Music Award, in the ‘club global' category).
His previous albums came out in 2002 (Contraditório) and 2005 (Aparelhagem) DJ Dolores is definitely at the forefront of a new movement which reappropriates some of the country's neglected traditions, especially those popular styles traditionally shunned by the establishment, and brings them to a wider audience, thus bridging the gaps between poor & rich, young & old, and showing that there's an amazingly rich musical world beyond samba and bossa nova.
Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/dj-dolores STANK | DJ Dolores - one of Brazil's original electronic music pioneers - returns with a new alias - STANK - and a slamming six-track EP of ‘mangue-ton'. Incorporating elements of dancehall, drum ‘n' bass, dubstep and tecnobrega with a heavy dose of old skool rave and mangue-beat attitude, these tracks are complete reconSTANKtions of the originals and were produced using cell phones, tablets and nano synths.
This, and the guitar playing from Yuri Queiroga, Dolores's partner in the project, helps give the tracks their rough, old skool flavour. Highlights include the bass-heavy dub-reggae junglist skank of their remix of Maga Bo's ‘Immigrant Visa Part II', their debut STANK original production ‘Boyzinha' which features Dolores on vocals over a tecnobrega groove and vintage computer game noises as well as their stuttering and distorted electric guitar heavy remix of ‘Godê Pavão' from the famous Samba Coco Raizes do Arco Verde roots group which takes this uplifting folk tune to an altogether moodier, darker place. Dolores is a key figure in Recife's manguebeat scene - he collaborated with Mangue Beat originators Chico Science and Nação Zumbi in the late 80s & early 90s.
He burst onto the global club scene in 2002 with the album ‘Contraditorio', which was released by Sterns Records and won him the ‘Club Global' award in the 2004 BBC World Music awards.
He then cemented his position as Brazil's leading electro-roots producer with two subsequent releases for Crammed Records: ‘Aparelhagem' in 2005 and ‘1Real' in 2008. Buy it now from our bandcamp page accessible via the player below: (http://maisumdiscos.bandcamp.com/album/dj-dolores-presents-stank) CONTACT: dj.dolores@gmail.com | djdolores.producao@gmail.com