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Marco Bosco x Alter Disco
Metalmadeira II
AI
Ferro
AII
Mata
AIII
Pau
BI
Camila
BII
Pedra
BIII
Vento
Soundway (SNDWLP203)
1x Vinyl LP Album
Electronic, Jazz, Latin, Folk, World, & Country, Deep House, House, Synth-pop, Fusion, Breaks, Beatdown, Downtempo, Experimental, Ambient
Release date: Nov 1, 2025, UK
Modern flip of Marco Bosco's classic, Metalmadeira
"In 1983, Grammy-winning Brazilian percussionist Marco Bosco released Metalmadeira — a groundbreaking fusion of hand-built percussion, early drum machines, and lush synth textures. Four decades later, celebrated Curitiba-based collective Alter Disco (Bárbara Boeing, Phil Mill, De Sena) reimagine the album for today’s dancefloors.
Working from the original stereo recordings (the master tapes long since damaged), Alter Disco preserved the organic feel of Bosco’s unquantized rhythms while infusing them with deep, modern grooves. The result is a cross-generational dialogue between Brazil’s early electronic avant-garde and contemporary club culture.
Highlights include Pedra, pulsing at 130 BPM with a vintage vocoder line nodding to Detroit techno pioneer Juan Atkins, and Camila, which wraps Bosco’s sharp percussion in atmospheric synths and hypnotic beats.
Metalmadeira II is raw yet refined — live instrumentation and electronic production in perfect balance, blurring the line between archive and innovation.
