{"id":9803,"date":"2007-05-06T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T23:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatplanet.com.au\/blog\/2007\/05\/06\/crookers-italy\/"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:14:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:14:32","slug":"crookers-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/06\/crookers-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"CROOKERS [ITALY]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"310\" border=\"1\" alt=\"crookers400310\" id=\"image440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fatplanet.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/crookers.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>mp3:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerogaudio.net\/fatplanet\/Para-De-Gracinha-Low.mp3\">CROOKERS feat MC LEKA para de gra&#8730;?inha (euro crunk mix)<\/a><br \/>\nitalian duo <strong>crookers<\/strong>, aka bot and phra, may have released scarce few tunes into the ether as yet, but their reputation is certainly building.  following a few early remixes (including a mix of <strong>stefano fontana<\/strong> that was picked up by <strong>pete tong<\/strong>), &#8216;aguas de parco&#8217; dropped to blogs last year and was finally given a full release by big sur last month.  blending the rhythm and intensity of baile funk with a harder euro-tech flavour, it was one of the early indications that carioca funk could well leave the confines of brazil and work its way into the wider, global consciousness.<br \/>\nthis new crookers track, &#8216;para de gracinha&#8217;, is ripped from the forthcoming &#8216;funk mundial #3&#8217; release from man recordings. it follows on from two excellent volumes in the series from <strong>stereotyp<\/strong> and <strong>sinden &#038; herve<\/strong> &#8211; and parallels the similarly excellent &#8216;baile funk masters series&#8217; from the label.  the full release features rio <strong>mc leka<\/strong>, renowned for her appearances at the local &#8216;caldeirao&#8217; street bailes, alongside <strong>mc dandao<\/strong> from vila lage, cited as &#8220;one of the original hot beds of baile funk&#8221;.  more info at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.manrecordings.com\/man14.html.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">manrecordings.com<\/a>. stream another excellent fidget-funk track from the release, &#8216;atomic baile boy&#8217;, over at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/crookers\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crookers&#8217; murdochspace<\/a>.<br \/>\nmore crookers action over at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.discobelle.net\/2007\/02\/14\/bonus-mixin-it-up-crookers\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">discobelle<\/a> where they&#8217;ve upped a mix that features a chunk of crookers productions with additional mixes from switch, trevor lovey, speaker junk, herve and more.  and while you&#8217;re out there, i recommend grabbing &#8216;aguas de parco&#8217; from <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?id=219970224&#038;s=143460\">itunes<\/a> too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mp3: CROOKERS feat MC LEKA para de gra&#8730;?inha (euro crunk mix) italian duo crookers, aka bot and phra, may have released scarce few tunes into the ether as yet, but their reputation is certainly building. following a few early remixes (including a mix of stefano fontana that was picked up by pete tong), &#8216;aguas de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[445],"class_list":["post-9803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-planet","tag-fat-planet-blog","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15727,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions\/15727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}