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Brazilika Far Out ****

You need an experienced guide before diving into Brazilian music. BBC Radio One DJ Gilles Peterson is probably the best sherpa in this business, as well as a dab hand at Brazilian compilations. His brief here is to celebrate the 15th birthday of Brazilian-British label Far Out, and so the selections are drawn from a back catalogue that houses mainly cool, languid, sophisticated bossa-nova, funk and pop in the main. Peterson has fun leading the listener through the label’s hotspots, with the deep samba of The Ipanemas, the freak-outs of Azymuth and the trippy magic of Aleudas’ Galope very much to the fore. And Peterson keeps the mood at the summery end of the scale throughout. www.farout recordings.com

Download tracks: Sideny Miller, E isso Ai; Aleudas, Galope