change of pace (and bpm's)

DJ Marky, XRS, Jorge Ben Jor and Toquinho, Audio Architecture 2: Carolina Carol Bela

I'm a big fan of the DJ Marky story... You decide you want to bring a relatively obscure genre of electronic music from another country to your homeland where homegrown artists reign supreme and electronics have been relegated mainly to the background. You try it out, but it doesn't happen so much for you, so you move to England after some British guys hear you at a club one night. You get popular there and become a pioneer of the drums & bass movement as it moves to the foreground, and return to your native Brazil.

Only now, drums & bass is huge in Brazil, and you become ridiculously popular at home as well as abroad. Such is the story of DJ Marky...

This track is a remix of a Jorge Ben Jor tune and a Toquinho tune. Jorge Ben Jor (originally Jorge Ben, which I will explain below) is a pioneer in Brazil's samba-funk/soul/r&b movement. Managing to remain clear of the many movements that have paralleled his long, prolific career, Ben Jor has remained an important fixture and influence on the Brazilian music scene.

As for the Ben Jor part, supposedly the story is that Jorge Ben Jor grew tired of being consfused with Miles Davis-bandmate-turned-cheesewagon jazz guitarist George Benson (Jorge being George in Portuguese). Ben Jor through a "Jor" at the end of his name, and has been known by that name for the last twenty years or so.

Sorry for the lag in posting... I'm working on it.