Mix 30: Checking in on Vietnam, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Kuwait, then going back in time to Mali, Japan, & Sri Lanka. Plus ghettotech from HiTech, a non-meme from Hudson Mohawke, and various Zinoleeskies.
Today's rabbit hole. While searching for the original of a track from a Jiraya UAI live DJ set, I accidentally ran across a track from 2020 (Kyan, DJ Mu540 "Menor Magrinho" [Jun 4, 2020]) with the hashtag DrillBR and the same "jaunty" piano sample as your Yuri Redicopa & DJ Bnão track, "Bebê Tá Solta." Running "Menor Magrinho" through whosampled-dot-com got me to MC Magrinho's "Senta em Mim Xerecão" from 2013; the earliest post I can find of it is May 28, but I'm linking one from December 8 that has Magrinho's picture. The track's got millions of streams and scores of uploads, still getting uploaded in the 2020s and seems to be what made the sample famous. And running *it* through whosampled-dot-com takes me to the actual sample source, Vinheteiro's "Tom and Jerry Musics on piano, 7 soundtracks show" [Aug 22, 2012], the first of the seven he plays. "They are persecution and fugue themes," he writes. Vinheteiro looks to be an accomplished pianist and an entertaining fellow whose YouTube channel includes "20 Songs You've Heard and Don't Know the Name" (by the likes of Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Grieg), "Top 10 Videogame Musical Themes," "Clair de Lune Performed With a Banana," "Evolution of Cartoon Music," and so forth. But unfortunately his Tom and Jerry post contains no credits, identifying neither the cartoons nor the composers. Since elsewhere he's eager to show who wrote what, I assume this absence is on purpose, copyright potentially in effect. But anyway I've hit a wall**: my guess for composer would be Scott Bradley, who scored the Tom and Jerrys for MGM in the '40s and '50s, but I don't know. I skimmed the first volume of the Bradley CD comps *Tom & Jerry and Tex Avery Too*, but if our jaunty melody was there I didn't catch it. Vol. 2 was uploaded on Spotify but doesn't play in America. If I were an honest-to-God researcher and this were a priority of some sort I'd make phone calls and try to find whom to ask, and find more Tom and Jerrys to peruse. But it's not a priority (see priority in next comment). In any event, our composer could well be Bradley and even if it's not, the piano riffs nonetheless do speak Americano, after all.
MC Magrinho - Senta em Mim Xerecão [Dec 8, 2013; orig. May 28, 2013]
--There's more to the story, remixes and guitar covers, and of most interest to me, the Magrinho track itself getting sampled, not the piano part, but his vocals, in one of my five favorite brega funk tracks, "O Neiff Me Ligou" by Anderson Neiff, MC Terror, Laryssa Real, and MC Magrinho – one of my 2021 PPP noms, and one of the embeds in my "Laryssa Real, Artist Of The Year" post. The sample, e.g. from 00:35 to 00:37 of "Senta em Mim Xerecão" ("Senta ni mim, xerecão/Quica ni quica mim, xerequinha"), becomes the musical backbone for large amounts of "O Neiff Me Ligou," chopped-up and recurring, its role like that of a rhythm guitar, except it's a voice!
Today's rabbit hole. While searching for the original of a track from a Jiraya UAI live DJ set, I accidentally ran across a track from 2020 (Kyan, DJ Mu540 "Menor Magrinho" [Jun 4, 2020]) with the hashtag DrillBR and the same "jaunty" piano sample as your Yuri Redicopa & DJ Bnão track, "Bebê Tá Solta." Running "Menor Magrinho" through whosampled-dot-com got me to MC Magrinho's "Senta em Mim Xerecão" from 2013; the earliest post I can find of it is May 28, but I'm linking one from December 8 that has Magrinho's picture. The track's got millions of streams and scores of uploads, still getting uploaded in the 2020s and seems to be what made the sample famous. And running *it* through whosampled-dot-com takes me to the actual sample source, Vinheteiro's "Tom and Jerry Musics on piano, 7 soundtracks show" [Aug 22, 2012], the first of the seven he plays. "They are persecution and fugue themes," he writes. Vinheteiro looks to be an accomplished pianist and an entertaining fellow whose YouTube channel includes "20 Songs You've Heard and Don't Know the Name" (by the likes of Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Grieg), "Top 10 Videogame Musical Themes," "Clair de Lune Performed With a Banana," "Evolution of Cartoon Music," and so forth. But unfortunately his Tom and Jerry post contains no credits, identifying neither the cartoons nor the composers. Since elsewhere he's eager to show who wrote what, I assume this absence is on purpose, copyright potentially in effect. But anyway I've hit a wall**: my guess for composer would be Scott Bradley, who scored the Tom and Jerrys for MGM in the '40s and '50s, but I don't know. I skimmed the first volume of the Bradley CD comps *Tom & Jerry and Tex Avery Too*, but if our jaunty melody was there I didn't catch it. Vol. 2 was uploaded on Spotify but doesn't play in America. If I were an honest-to-God researcher and this were a priority of some sort I'd make phone calls and try to find whom to ask, and find more Tom and Jerrys to peruse. But it's not a priority (see priority in next comment). In any event, our composer could well be Bradley and even if it's not, the piano riffs nonetheless do speak Americano, after all.
MC Magrinho - Senta em Mim Xerecão [Dec 8, 2013; orig. May 28, 2013]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SolLMVwqzM
Vinheteiro - Tom and Jerry Musics on piano, 7 soundtracks show [Aug 22, 2012]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a96iFs0U0hk
**Shazam – quickly, decisively, confidently – gives wrong information.
--There's more to the story, remixes and guitar covers, and of most interest to me, the Magrinho track itself getting sampled, not the piano part, but his vocals, in one of my five favorite brega funk tracks, "O Neiff Me Ligou" by Anderson Neiff, MC Terror, Laryssa Real, and MC Magrinho – one of my 2021 PPP noms, and one of the embeds in my "Laryssa Real, Artist Of The Year" post. The sample, e.g. from 00:35 to 00:37 of "Senta em Mim Xerecão" ("Senta ni mim, xerecão/Quica ni quica mim, xerequinha"), becomes the musical backbone for large amounts of "O Neiff Me Ligou," chopped-up and recurring, its role like that of a rhythm guitar, except it's a voice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWvtVg5EX2U