Fradinho - Brazilian Bounce EP

Format: 12" Vinyl (limited to x200 copies)
Catalogue No.: EBM008
Release Date: Jan 2025
Genre: Latin/Dance

Track list:
Side-A
A1 – Fradinho – Turquoise
A2 – Fradinho – Sunshine

Side-B
B1 - Fradinho – Heavy Samba
B2 – Fradinho – Berimbau

Eclectic Beats Music release number 8 is Fradinho’s “Brazilian Bounce”!
It’s a record with 4 Broken beat cuts that draw inspiration from Brazil and all of its different flavours.
From soothing beats to darker treats, this EP is Fradinho's latest and finest offering, also available on a 12" 45 RPM Heavyweight vinyl!

A1 - Turquoise - A soothing loungy broken beat track that makes you float through fields of dreams.
A2 - Sunshine - Happy and radiant broken beat cut with acoustic guitar and flute. Summer vibes!

B1 - Heavy Samba - Funky and jazzy bruk cut with scatting vocals to make you bounce!
B2 - Berimbau - A heavier and dark bruk cut with heavy bassline and berimbau samples. Badman face!

Fradinho bio

Fradinho (Rui Fradinho) is Lisbon born Portuguese, having lived in London for 12 years and returning to Portugal in 2020.

Rui's musical base stems from a diverse range of music: rock to pop, house to techno, through jazz, soul, funk, world music, hip hop, drum and bass and from breakbeat to his main passion and current music production focus, broken beat / bruk / nu jazz.

Rui runs his own record label, Eclectic Beats Music, with 6 vinyl releases, and has released remixes for artists like Sentinel793 (Universal Magnetic), Deborah Jordan (Futuristica Music), Str4ta (Colin Curtis Presents), David Borsu (Broadcite) amongst other artists and labels.

Highlights of his DJ career so far (other than his 6-year residency at Sociedade Anonima), are the Bicaense Cafe and Lux club in Lisbon. Earlier in 2017, he did a stint on London’s Back2BackFM, playing at Dalston’s Club Makossa, the BBE Store in East London, closing the Chill Out Gardens stage in Portugal’s Boom Festival 2018, DJ’ed at Gilles Peterson’s first edition of We Out Here festival in 2019, played Lisb-On festival in 2022 and currently guests at Birmingham’s BrukUp broken beat night (having played there 5 times with Adam Rock, Laura Crossley, Bruk Boogie Kru, Marcia Carr & Kwai and Yoofee).