Sam Backer: Thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us! So- the new compilation is really fantastic.
Daniel Haaksman: Thank you. It’s like the 5th genre specific compilation I did. I did a couple of others early on- I don't know if you're familiar with Baile Funk: Rio Booty Beats. I made two of those, and before that, I made two dub compilations, like 90's dub. And then we did this compilation on post-punk in brazil. "Não Wave" (meaning "No Wave") - That was actually the first release on man recordings. I did another one called "Bossa Do Morro", as we say in Portuguese which was for the 50th anniversary of Bossa Nova, where we commissioned producers from Rio to do the baile funk versions of classic Bossa Nova tracks.
S: Oh cool! I haven’t heard that.
H: Actually, it never came out outside of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland because there were rights problems. I was allowed to work with tracks from the Universal catalog, because they have a lot of Verve stuff- Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Tom Jobim. But they don’t have the rights to export it outside of the US and they are very tight about what to put out, so unfortunately it never came out outside of those countries
S: And is the new album going to be released in America? I can’t remember.
H: Yeah- it’s a world wide release.
S: That's really cool because, as far as I know, it’s the first world wide release of a Tecno Brega compilation.
H: Yea, true! I mean there was is UK label called Mais Um Disco which released an EP of Tecno Brega tracks earlier in 2012, but they titled the compilation "Electro-Amazonas," and people really didn’t associate that with Tecno Brega actually.
S: It also, it wasn’t physical I don’t think.
H: Yeah, you're right. It was only a digital release.
S: So is the compilation getting a physical release?
H: I´m afraid not, CD sales have completely collapsed lately, especially when it comes to electronic music.
