Summary: Berimbau variations. Orchestral Tropicalia. Low slung Funk and groovy Rock. Jorge Ben gone electric. Ethique Boogie sunshine. Tom Tom Club-esque motion. George Benson-esque scat. A Frenchman singing Brazil`s praises. Modern Soul. Seductive female rap and a classic from a childhood in Rio. Percussão, bateria, tambor, stoned solos and hippie harmonies. A musical heaven, like a dream my brother. Where are you based? São Paulo, Brazil. Is this your hometown? Trepanado: No, I was born and raised inland São Paulo state, in a city called Ribeirão Preto ("black stream"), known as a major agrobusiness center. Millos: No. I was born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro’s Brooklyn. What is your first musical memory? Trepanado: Listening to lullaby stories pressed in records with the most creepy covers. Dancing with my mother in the living room to A-Ha. Millos: My dad listening to Zucchero, Oingo Boingo and Ed Motta. What inspired you to start DJing? Trepanado: The radio made me dream about it. There was a program called "Big Apple Show" hosted by the great Julinho Mazzei, broadcasted straight from New York in the `80s and early `90s, that mixed Disco and House. When I was 14, a friend, Decio (from the House duo Anhanguera, that put some stuff out on Robsoul) got his first mixer with which we used to play eurohouse at house parties. Two years later, some of my friends were buying a pair of decks and records. I was just a music nerd, listening to everything from Heavy metal to Trip-Hop, asking myself if it was OK to like Slayer, Portishead and Chic at the same time. When I moved to Sao Paulo to graduate I started nightclubbing properly, dancing to Laurent Garnier, Robert Owens and François Kevorkian when they came down here, but it wasn't until I heard Optimo that it clicked because I related to that approach, it was something that I wanted to pursue as a musical vision. And of course reading to Last Night a DJ Saved My Life and all those amazing stories, going through those club's top 50's playlists and just wondering how it felt. Millos: I was not very interested in dance music until I was 20 years old, which was only 7 years ago actually. It was around that time that I started going to two very good parties in Rio de Janeiro, called Combo and Moo. The residents DJs played a lot of mutant Disco, Post-Punk, new Disco, and House tunes and I was blown away from the first time I went. They also had amazing international DJs as guests like Todd Terje, Prins Thomas, Richard Sen, Daniel Wang playing regularly. I didn't know you could play an Azymuth record after some crazy German techno until then. How long have you been DJing / making music? Millos: I've been DJing for about 6 years now. Trepanado: Roughly 10 years, I ran another party, as part of a different duo for two years in those crazy 2005 times when the music genre barrier really fell. I used to come up with crazy genres, Chitalo, Cock Rock, Post-Punk-Funk, for the flyer. Anyway, I only started to blend records properly 4 years ago, when friends bought me two turntables as a wedding present. Then I got an Urei 1620 mixer for my house setup. But I was giving up this "hobby" before Selvagem started late in 2011. I judged there was some sort of generation gap between me and the crowd in the places I was playing to and I didn't have the patience to do any PR with clubs and promoters, having to work as editor-in-chief of an inflight magazine and running a house with wife and kid, even if friends supported me. So I was in the process of accepting that I was just a music head and working as a DJ was something I should put past me. Then it all changed. I met Millos through a mutual friend, Selvagem's best man, and he approached me talking about this Sunday spot at this bar just in the middle of this amazing square downtown Sao Paulo, a place we could throw a free sunset party once a month. From the beginning I sensed something different.
