Global Beatbox pt 1 by Bloco Electro - Earth Connection [ECCDGBP1] FLAC download included with physical items

Global Beatbox pt 1

Bloco Electro

A 12 track breaks album (43m 39s) — released April 21st 2008 on Earth Connection

#electronic #breaks
Bloco Electro is the brainchild of Gavin Lombos a musician and producer based in Reading. Gavin set up Beatroots Bateria, Reading's Samba school in the mid nineties. The band became a WOMAD institution leading the massive parade for over 10 years. Bloco Electro became a way of taking the excitement of the festival shows into the clubs. Gavin draws on his playing and recording experience touring the world with Punjabi drumming group The Dhol Foundation and French techno-funksters Recycler to define the Bloco sound. He's joined by a core group of drummers playing a mix of traditional percussion from Africa to India and all places in between. The rules are that everything must be played percussively - no keyboards, no loops, no decks – just drums and some cool technology from v-drums to space-drums. The band takes the concept Brazilian drumming group (bloco) and mashes up the rootsy Latin rhythms with other world beats, a generous helping of old skool electro and hip-hop beats and then tops it off with forward thinking electronica. "Live Breaks… I think they're fantastic" Annie Nightingale BBC Radio 1. Bloco Electro feature on the BBC Introducing tour with Annie Nightingale in March 2008.

BlocoElectro have a sound that is like a thousand holidays rolled into one... a fresh and uncluttered sound. - Kate Sharp BBC MUSIC

This album is amazing... - EQ Magazine

With it's mix of bossa, electro, latin, bhangra and an array of other rhythmic styles, Gavin Lombos has created a masterpiece - INHALE

Always varied in its use of global beats and rhythms...this is an energetic, sturdily-produced world album with a likely wide range of appeal. - Danny Barcode Magazine

Like a beach party that teleports form Rio to Brighton to Mumbai to Miami to Cape Town and back. Sambatronic, sampladelic beatbox wizadry. 4/5 stars - Toby Shergold Songlines Magazine

This album is a smorgasbord, or in other words one massive box, of block rocking beats from around the world. But they’re used to devastating effect. - Ben Bradford Subba Cultcha Magazine

Bloco Electro's Global Beatbox is simply astounding... Gavin Lombos has created a masterpiece... - Wub Bijou Breaks

"Tribal, electro, fantastic live breaks"! - B Resident Magazine

“an essential outernational sound of block busting beats” - Pathaan BBC Asian Network/Globetr

Live breaks...I think their fantastic! - Annie Nightingale BBC Radio 1

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