The Fifteenth Case of the Brazilian Tag Team

Joined in the booth again this week by the incomparably crated DJ Brother Charlie, bringing his sweet sweet vinyl in for show and tell.

We are breaking new ground on tag team content today:  our genre will be "uncategorizable Brazil." All songs today that defy easy genre classification; mysterious and weird sounds to amaze and mystify gringo eardrums. Brother Charlie turned me on to the factoid that Brazil is the only country other than the USA that consumes more domestically produced music than internationally produced music. With the amazing breadth of the Brazilian music scene, it's not hard to see why. We will be pulling cool cuts from all the concealed corners of this huge national songbook.

My own set will lead the show, and I'll kick off with an appetizer course of oddball jazz and vocal tracks in the Bossa Nova idiom. Next up we cleanse the pallet with some leafy greens from the alternative/prog rock bag, including appearances from Portlandia spirit animal Tom Ze.

My main course today will feature modern beats... just to show I'm not completely crusted over. Fresh and unusual sounds to wrap up the first hour, followed by DJ Brother Charlie in hour two. Summer madness, indeed.