Brasilidades: when samba and MPB meet the dance floor

Samba was born in Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century, and “Pelo Telefone”, registered in 1916, is considered the first recorded samba. Since then it has become the foundation of much of Brazilian music.

In the 1960s, televised music festivals launched a generation of artists and the term MPB (Brazilian Popular Music), with names like Elis Regina, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Milton Nascimento.

“Brasilidades” is how many DJs describe bringing this repertoire to the dance floor: edits and remixes that keep the soul of the songs but add the tempo and low end of a club set.

That's exactly the idea behind the Grooves & Brasilidades project: getting the crowd to sing along and dance at the same time, blending emotional memory with dance-floor energy.