Biography
DJ Dolores (aka Helder Aragão) has been active in the ebullient musical
scene of his hometown Recife since his collaboration with Mangue Beat
originators Chico Science and Nação Zumbi in the late ‘80s. He then
worked as a graphic designer, TV documentary producer, soundtrack
composer for films and theatre before adopting the turntables and
sampler as a means of expression. He has remixed tracks for Gilberto
Gil, Tribalistas, Fernanda Porto and Taraf de Haïdouks, was invited to
take part (alongside David Byrne and the Beastie Boys) in Wired
Magazine's Rip, Mash, Sample, Share project in of the Creative
Commons licenses, wrote and recorded soundtrack music for Brazilian
films A Máquina and Narradores de Javé, and has won several awards in
Brazil and abroad (including the 2004 BBC World Music Award, in the
‘club global’ category). His previous albums came out in 2002
(Contraditório) and 2005 (Aparelhagem)
DJ Dolores is definitely at the forefront of a new movement which
reappropriates some of the country’s neglected traditions, especially
those popular styles traditionally shunned by the establishment, and
brings them to a wider audience, thus bridging the gaps between poor
& rich, young & old, and showing that there’s an amazingly rich
musical world beyond samba and bossa nova.-Myspace page
scene of his hometown Recife since his collaboration with Mangue Beat
originators Chico Science and Nação Zumbi in the late ‘80s. He then
worked as a graphic designer, TV documentary producer, soundtrack
composer for films and theatre before adopting the turntables and
sampler as a means of expression. He has remixed tracks for Gilberto
Gil, Tribalistas, Fernanda Porto and Taraf de Haïdouks, was invited to
take part (alongside David Byrne and the Beastie Boys) in Wired
Magazine's Rip, Mash, Sample, Share project in of the Creative
Commons licenses, wrote and recorded soundtrack music for Brazilian
films A Máquina and Narradores de Javé, and has won several awards in
Brazil and abroad (including the 2004 BBC World Music Award, in the
‘club global’ category). His previous albums came out in 2002
(Contraditório) and 2005 (Aparelhagem)
DJ Dolores is definitely at the forefront of a new movement which
reappropriates some of the country’s neglected traditions, especially
those popular styles traditionally shunned by the establishment, and
brings them to a wider audience, thus bridging the gaps between poor
& rich, young & old, and showing that there’s an amazingly rich
musical world beyond samba and bossa nova.-Myspace page