¥¥ DE VOLTA AOS ANOS 20 ¥¥ PARA ESTE PRIMEIRO ENCONTRO DA Tropical Groove APÓS A CHEGADA DO NOVO ANO, TEMOS O ENORME PRAZER DE APRESENTAR O NOSSO HERMANO Kurup E O QUERIDISSIMO Yann Le Frit DIRETAMENTE DE PARIS COM O SEU MARAVILHOSO PROJETO Psycho Tropiques DA Curuba. E COMO É HABITUAL, CONTAREMOS COM O CHARMOSO E CREMOSO DECOR DA FAMILIA A RUA DÁ the street gives <3 ˇˇˇˇ VEM QUE 2020 É ANO DE TROPICALIA ˇˇˇˇ Kurup https://soundcloud.com/ku_rup Hailing from Brazil’s vast Cerrado region and now based in Porto, Portugal, Kurup’s weighty, tracks sound like shadows creeping across a forest floor: inexorable, mysterious, strangely alive. The Cerrado is home to the most biologically diverse tropical savannahs in the world, and Kurup’s music reflects a sense of being surrounded by a living, breathing landscape. He builds his songs out of earthy kicks and faint tendrils of melody that slice through a canopy of atmospheric delays, and then populates the empty space with clicks, rustles, and rattles, evoking an environment brimming with unseen organisms. The name behind the project, Renato, is from the artistic collective “Limbo” which organizes parties and showcases around the world with immersive musical acts, visual installations and performative arts. Psycho Tropiques https://soundcloud.com/psychotropiques Psycho Tropiques is a french duo of DJs, producers and cultural activists. Their musical project started during a lysergic trip in Brasil, where one of them used to live. Later, they co-founded the multicolored label and collective Curuba in Paris, where they try to develop the downtempo/global bass movement in the alternative scene. They see their project as aspace of musical experimentation & psychedelism, where they blend their cultural influences in a synesthetic and syncretic, field-recording-infused audio patchwork. In their search for unexpected associations of sounds and rhythms, they experiment in every genre with no regard to style barriers: ambient, post-downtempo, glitch-reggeaton, organic techno, modular cumbia, acid chaab’i, experimental baile funk, macumba-electronica...