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MINIMARIL - SAMBA EP

1. Samba Pt. 1

2. Samba Pt. 2

3. Black Hole Hooked

4. Samba (Soulclap’s Nice’n'Ripe Rub)

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I met Mariano (a.k.a Minimaril) a little less than a year ago. When he first told me he was 19, I thought he was lying. I mean with his height and long hair, he definitely looks way older! But it is once you get to know him that you can really feel the amazing vibes that radiates from him. I still wonder how it is possible for such a nice person to exist in the often ego-dominated Techno realm. Freshness!

Of Venezuelean origin, Mariano has been living all his life in Buenos Aires and DJing for 5 years now. He started very young, learning directly on the field, since he never even owned turntables, and quickly made his way to the most important booths of the Argentine capital!

This unique energy and natural understanding of music imprints on his productions. Minimaril’s beats are bright sharp, groovy and will always make you bounce. He sends me a new track every other day, all of them more powerful than the last one. With such a clear vision, his music really seems to be animated by a higher force!

His debut track, Too Young to be Famous, on our AirDrop presents Extraction, is the best-seller out of all tracks on the compilation!

The Samba EP unites three of Minimaril’s original productions. He explores two different dimensions of the project, first, with a super deep synth line-driven Part 1, and then with a massively rolling Part 2. The ode to percussions started by Samba is rounded with Black Hole Hooked, which features hypnotic sax riffs, dark voices and huge funk.

To bring the EP to another level, we had our Special Boston Task Force, Soulclap, to remix Samba 1 & 2. I was persuaded, like most of you I am sure (otherwise go back to school), that 1 + 2 = 3, but the united powers of Bean Town’s Super Soulclap and B.A’s Minimaril defy mathematics. Don’t even doubt it, just buy it & listen to it!

The release is exclusively available on Juno with a special price for this week!
Support the creation of music that makes your body groove.

O and I almost forgot, Minimaril has a 12 inch coming soon on AirDrop and a few other goodies too…
Woooopp

The moment has finally arrived when AirDrop Records officially comes to existence with its first release AD 001 aka Giraffe by Soul Clap, you must know them by now. The release will be on 10 inch vinyl- Yeah, that’s right! And if that’s not enough, the vinyl is yellow with a nice little label design (see for yourselves below).

Now to put the cherry on top, we got Franco Cinelli to remix the living day out of the original (A side) creating a dark masterpiece to grace the B side of our first vinyl.

Here is a close look on Side B:

If you weren’t lucky enough to get your hands on one and since they are all gone around the world, get it on Beatport and read our interview with Beatportal at the Winter Music Conference.

Following the performance we did last week (see Podcast N°4), we decided to take the creativity to the streets and represent Music and Visual Arts in the open air. Everything is set and we are ready to take over a super dreamy piece of urban land on next Sunday from 4PM ’til Midnight (we told the authorities 10PM, but whatever). The location is at the end of Costa Rica road before it reaches the railway on the Soho side. The place is perfect, it is located in the middle of Palermo and there is absolutely noone to disturb us: on one side a wine hangar, on the other a wall ready to be painted by our artists, Maria Bedoian, Coco, Claudia, Ale and Vale, Luciano.

In terms of music, we asked hot hot DJs to come create the link: Luisao of Army of Dub has been representing Dub and Dubstep with his fellow Daleduro in Argentina, they are basically the only ones doing it here and they rock. They even played at the last Creamfields here in B.A

We also asked to Miguel Castro, singer of the super band Victoria Mil (for me, easily one of the best ones today in Argentina) to come play his favourite tunes. Beware, you will never hear such music anywhere else, Miguel carries around a precious selection of gems, collected over his years.

The top bar OMM is located right in front of the venue, and will be opening especially for the occasion that Sunday. We are super excited by the event! When do you get to enjoy both amazing music and art in such open environment? Come watch the Sunday Sunset with us!

We have decided to start posting more and more about cool new artists and projects. We have been meaning to do more of this and promise to introduce you to up and coming artists as well as more obscure finds and creative projects.

The internet is great because it is what makes the world “flat” to a great extent enabling all artists to have their moment. Not every artist produces great works, but there are a rare few that have shared their greatest works. I recently discovered the website artistsupandcoming.com which is exactly what it sounds like, a site for up and coming artists. I did some looking and there was definitely some lame and corny stuff, but among all of the works, I was able to find a painting that truly touched me. Maybe it’s because Roy Lichtenstein is one of my favorite artists of all time, but this painting by Justin Lui, that is listed as “not for sale,” truly is priceless to me.

Globalization has a profound impact on our existence, so much so that is a recurring theme in much of modern and contemporary art. From Andy Warhol to Banksy, many artists have created art by hijacking brands and Ron English is one of my personal favorite hijackers. He has found fame in part as a billboard vandal, but continues to play around with cultural icons and create his own. Not only does he have creative and thoughtful art, but the detail and painting techniques he uses are unparalleled. One has only to see some of his art parodies, where he creates a work based on renowned masterpieces such as Guernica or works by Van Gogh such as his “Starry Night”

I have not put a picture of his most recent “Grade School Guernica,” because it is a work so impressive that it must be seen in full dimension as it dominates the surface of any wall (currently it is for show and sale at Opera Art Gallery in New York City)