Sinden & Count of Monte Cristal Feat. MC Thiaguinho “Tamborzuda”

Release date: May 21 2007

Format: CD single
Genre: Gash disco
Release: 0/5

They’ve taken the music from ‘Jet Set Willy’ on the Spectrum, looped it and let some mad bastard shout incoherently all over it. You’d need to be seriously out of your tree to think anything remotely like this would be fun to listen to. It’s like the millennium never happened. You could be back in the early nineties staring transfixed at swirling disco lights, drooling all over yourself clutching limply at a fistful of glowsticks, believing yourself to be nothing short of the don of the club scene.

I looked up the word Sinden and the closest I could find was that it referred to: ‘sindhen; largely improvised chorus within strict parameters’. I’m not so sure the word ‘improvised’ does it justice, more like ‘abstract squealing incessantly to the point of the listener reaching a murderous rage’. *Music for idiots. Absolute, irrefutable gash.

Review by Paul Walters

Note*: Not really music.

Press Release

Following the acclaimed release ‘Jece Valadão/Uepa’ by Vienna’s Stereotyp feat. Edu K and Joyce Muniz, the Funk Mundial series on Man Recordings presents #2 in the transatlantic music collaboration between Brazil and Europe.

The second Funk Mundial release is produced by Sinden & Count Of Monte Cristal (a.k.a. Herve), currently two of London’s hottest club music producers. Releasing for labels like Dubsided, Counterfeet, On The Brink and many others, the two producers currently turn heads with every tune and remix they release. Sinden has remixed Lady Sovereign, Edu K, Basement Jaxx and Bugz In The Attic amongst others and has collaborated with Dave “Solid Groove/Switch” Taylor and Jesse Rose on various unclassifiable riddims. Herve has released various banging 12“s on Dubsided as well as collaborating with Trevor Loveys under the moniker Speakerjunk, whose production work includes remixing Bloc Party, Jimi Hendrix and Princess Superstar to much acclaim. Herve’s Count Of Monte Cristal alias is also beginning to grab attention with the recent ‘Ghetto Bitches EP’ on Counterfeet.

The duo have recently reached feverpitch with their hit track ‘Beeper’, which has been heavily rotated on Radio 1, including heavyweight shows like Zane Lowe, Annie Mac and the Trophy Twins.

For ‘Tamborzuda’ the duo fuse speed garage beats - London’s late 90s dominating floor-shaking groove - with the dope alchemy and rave melodies of Rio Baile Funk, spiced with the rhyme skills of MC Thiaguinho. The Rio based MC is a former member of legendary Rio de Janeiro baile funk outfit Bonde Do Tigrão, famous for tracks like ‘O Baile Todo’ and ‘Cerol Na Mão’.

The result of the London-Rio hook up is ‘Tamborzuda’: Call it Speed Baile or Garage Funk Carioca, it is a fantastic, full on blend of two distinct local and hi energy dance music styles, made to body-rock any party. With its rave hook, a gutter teasing bassline and the mad lyrics of MC Thiaguinho about a girl addicted to booty shaking and baile funk’s ‘Tamborzão’ beat, ‘Tamborzuda’ is a unique track that will dominate dancefloors and DJ selections across the globe.

Tracklist

1 Tamborzuda - Rave New World Mix
2 Tamborzuda – Sin Rave Mix
3 Tamborzuda – Buggin on Bass + Beats Mix
4 Tamborzuda – Acappella


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Paul Walters, MyVillage, 02nd May