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Brazil: Diplo on tecno brega

With the World Cup coming in 2014 and the Summer Olympics in 2016, Brazil is about to blow up in a big way. The nation of 203 million people is in the midst of reinvention – some of it in a bubbling, vibrant music scene. Writing for Vanity Fair, the musicologist and electronica artist Diplo surveys the emerging tecno brega sound (“industrial reggaeton on crystal meth”) as distilled in the music of the group Banda UO. See the slideshow

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Photo: Candy Mel by Shane McCauley for Vanity Fair