Bonde Do Role - With Lasers
When Diplo happened across Bonde Do Role they were marrying a kind of carioca or baile funk to samples of brash hair metal and party-hearty hip hop. They’ve moved on for their first album proper on Domino (whether for copyright clearance or aesthetic reasons) and decided to recreate most of the music in the studio first before scrappily sampling themselves. The effect at times is incredibly daft - but at the same time it’s incredibly exciting. The opening track ‘Danca Do Zumbi’ sounds like a crazed punk band covering Daft Punk with a baile funk DJ on beats. So while DJ Gorky taps out a blaze of hair metal on a flying V, a Satanic voice guffaws: “This is the most evil thing you will ever hear… Death to your speakers!” Frequent flyer clubbers will probably have already heard the their tribute to the most referenced spy in popular culture ‘James Bonde’. Gigantic echoing electro-funk breaks match a heavy ‘Eliminator’ guitar riff which cheekily morphs momentarily into the quasi-raga of the Bond theme itself. Of course like on all of their songs, front woman Marina Ribatski is singing/rapping in Brazillian but it’s pretty much easy to pick up on the fact that Bonde Do Role think JB is “super-cool”. Word. Their current single ‘Office Boy’ is a salacious tale of young horny guys in shit jobs who just want to get down the beach and ogle women. It’s more pure pop than the rest of the album and sounds slightly out of place. There’s some Bambaataa referencing electro on ‘Marina Do Barrio’ that’ll have you burning holes in the knees of your Tachini tracksuit bottoms. Track after track here pops up rants in your face, slaps you a few times, then kisses you before departing after three minutes. Like the crazed teens BDR pretend to be, this record is restless, maverick and inventive, coming up with riffs and themes and dropping them immediately for something even newer and perverse just seconds later. And if there’s any justice ‘Bondillica’ will become the song of the summer.
-John Doran
Taken from: playlouder.com
MySpace: myspace.com/bondedorole
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