Silver City & Patriarca Streets Are Like

This is the first release from the new born Scandalo label, launched as a platform to bring Brazil's very own musical footprint mixed with collaborations with international artists and pioneer producers. Silver City (Fernando Pulichino and Julian Sanza) started playing music together in 1999 as electronic music collective Ciudad Feliz. After few releases on seminal house music labels like Silver Network and Stickman, the pair moved to London and began producing as Silver City for the esteemed 2020 Vision label. Two Silver City albums and multiple projects followed, seeing the pair joining and touring extensively as part of the 2020 Soundsystem team, Julian on keys and Fernando on bass, whilst also releasing separately on labels such as Rebirth and Redux respectively. For the undaunted grandeur of the title track "Streets Are Like" the pair enlist the talents of Patriarca with whom they have already released some great tunes via Under The Shade Records and Tropic Records. Patriarca is the man behind acts like Dubhead, Jazz- e, or most of all, Minima, which are Brazil´s Live-PA pioneers of choice. Over the last two years, the man has finally achieved what only very few other Brazilian producers have even looked for yet: a genuine Brazilian House Music style. He does so without ever falling into that "Samba- House" pitfall which has erased any interest in "authentic" Brazilian electronic music in the past. But rather by creating a tough and vibrant yet poetic atmosphere that seems to come directly from the streets of Sao Paulo. A leitmotiv that we can observe in all of his productions: a certain rough and hedonistic "funkiness" beyond the standard clichés of what people perceive as "Brazilian".