Bloco Electro

Actions

Global Beatbox Pt 1

Beats & Breaks
Released 21/04/2008
© 2007 G. Lombos t/a Earth Connection
£5.29

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#	Name	Length	Sample	Price
1	Loading	0:18	Play	£0.69
2	Marakatu	4:46	Play	£0.69
3	African Beat	4:35	Play	£0.69
4	Afro-Cuba	1:20	Play	£0.69
5	Havana 68	3:39	Play	£0.69
6	Arrabukka	4:25	Play	£0.69
7	My Beatbox Rox!	3:59	Play	£0.69
8	Old Skool Beats No.1	1:41	Play	£0.69
9	Tablagroove	4:18	Play	£0.69
10	Nyabinghi Style	5:17	Play	£0.69
11	Cheesebox	2:08	Play	£0.69
12	Global Beatbox Megamix	6:16	Play	£0.69

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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.