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On a busy corner in São Paulo, Brazil, street vendors pitch the latest "tecnobrega" CDs, including one by a hot band called Banda Calypso.
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On a busy corner in São Paulo, Brazil, street vendors pitch the latest "tecnobrega" CDs, including one by a hot band called Banda Calypso.
Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business Chris Anderson 2008
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It is the way it is produced and reaches the public that makes tecnobrega stand out, some of which is not unique to Brazil.
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The parties are a crucial part of the successful formula that makes a tecnobrega star, and there is good money to be made.
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"So this is a phenomenon that is going on not only in the tecnobrega scene but with many scenes around the world like Kuduro in Angola, Kwaito in South Africa, Bubblin 'in Suriname."
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Critics say tecnobrega encourages tolerance for piracy that costs Brazil jobs and billions of dollars in tax revenue but supporters say it offers the industry a new way forward.
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From the improvised studio, the next stop is a typical street market in Belem where among the stalls for clothes and food the street traders are hard at work selling tecnobrega CDs.
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From the initial tecnobrega style you now have cyber tecnobrega, you have brega melody you have electro melody.
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"So the musicians do not make money from the CDs that are sold by the street vendors, they actually make money by playing live at the so-called sound system parties - the aparelhagem parties as we tecnobrega say here in Brazil - and also by selling CDs after they play live."
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In the early hours of the morning in the Amazonian city of Belem, Brazil a dockside warehouse is shaking to the sound of tecnobrega.
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