Black$ea Não Maya - "Voçê é feia"

In perspective, a month is not an outrageous amount of time: one-twelfth of the year or eight percent of the the Earth's revolution around the sun, Whichever way it is spelled, thirty of 365 days is a diet-sized slice cut off from the a whole calendar pie. For what it is worth, my selection is not arbitrary. One month  happens to be the approximate amount of time since Black$ea Não Maya shared any music with the public; a ten-minute mix batida mix that merits the repeat button on your music-player of choice. And where accuracy is concerned it has been two months since the collective last released any original material. The result is not unlike a sensation of greed on my behalf because BNM has been criminally underrepresented on these pages. But as luck might have it, these three Djs released a song but a day ago

Calling "Voçê é feia" a song feels wildly inaccurate. A three-minutes length is generally shorthand for an album track - a loop halfway a beat which allows for seamless mixing. "Voçê é feia" does not do this. Instead the audience  is treated to an experience which begins with a four to the floor bass.

Typical drums and a friction instrument that sounds awfully similar to a Brazilian cuica complete the foundation; the hi-hat serves the transitional cue. At which point it can be assumed that this mid-tempo kuduro has begun. The single note brass provides a welcome and the four beat vocals, with its two-beat response, serve as syncopated flare. Meanwhile, in the peripherals, a more consistent cuica sound can be heard. The hi-hat anchors the beat while wood blocks aesthetically gloat in the distance. Suddenly progress is halted. A quiet interlude plays after the minute mark and the BNM tag drops. Hi-hat still acting as an anchor, a new set of drums are fittingly used the track's newest decoration: two synths. The suppressed vocals and a drum-fill shape what will follow and give context to what has come. The first half of the track introduces the premise, the second half invites the audience to give way to inhibition. Rhythm now changed, a single high pitched synth provides harmony while another continues to carry the melody. One set of vocals is never enough, which is why after the 2:00 mark a second pair come to assist. If the song were a village, every resident comes out to play their own instrument by the time the conclusion is reached.

Like a proper party, "Voçê é feia" never ceases to take on new forms. The distinct mark of an auteur is given to the track without compromising the fixed dance nature. It is also not the case that modern tastes are ignored. The song is pleasant but not sickly sweet with generational preferences  While the track is busy it is never dense because the arrangement of each element is designed to compliment the wider scope of the song as a whole; its nature, if nothing else, is given proper respect and foreign ideas are not forced into it. Nothing more than be said that three-minutes of play button induced enjoyment cannot provide (and enjoy the free download).

- John Noggle