Far Out Presents Brazilian Bass

Often electronic music from Brazil is represented either by the laid-back qualities of electronic bossa nova or the rattling beats and disorientating vocals of funk carioca. This album sits somewhere in between, its digital production often humming to the tune of one of the country's many native rhythms, while a rumbling bass line is never too far away. This is, for many Brazilians, the sound of modern Brazil: a concoction of musical regionalisms magnified by reggae, dub and what is known as ‘global bass.’

It's a formula that makes for an eclectic compilation. The Jamaican influence is represented by Anelis Assumpção's sultry Céu-influenced dub; there's samba from Banda Escola Pública; an electronic forró from Mental Abstrato & DJ Tahira; Afroelectro pay homage to Malian music on ‘Omin’; and on Sistema Criolina's ‘Pequi Week Bar’ we hear the growing influence of cumbia in Brazil. While this may result in a more homogenised version of Brazilian music, it's also an accurate account of the musical threads currently running through the country. And, crucially, it's still that got that irresistible Brazilian groove.