Being able to be assumed as the most radical humankind's intervention in the landscape, the city is generically a cluster of buildings, processes and people. According to United Nations, almost two-thirds of the world's population will live in cities by 2050. Thus, cities are the places where people live most of the time, but they should not be understood only as material urban heritage, otherwise, where would the driving forces coming from solidarity social relations fit in? Modestly, we took the theme of cities as an incentive to venture into the real world experiences and to celebrate the label's fifth year anniversary date. The compilation maintains the weekly release format and has three sub-themes: 'manhã' (morning), 'tarde' (afternoon) and 'noite' (night). Each one bringing the interpretations of the artists to the different situations of the city as the activities unfold during a whole day.
To a limited extent, humans depend on cities for the civilizing process. The space where people move, whether by car or on foot, is the dizzying essence of all this cultural dimension that allows the humanization of cities. It is the space where we meet, where we dream, where we sit, where we talk, where we express ourselves collectively. Stage for everyday life and also for funerals, processions, demonstrations, big parties. The joys and pains are inside the houses but they also have their projections flying over the cities, stimulating diverse movements towards the union of contrasting communities. Therefore, the compilation's intentions are focused on the nuances between Urbanism, Anthropology, Urban Sociology and any themes that we have omitted here for lack of words or knowledge.
On sunny, rainy or even cloud-covered days, the afternoon period is when the cities are going full steam ahead with their activities. As the day unfolds in several speeds the mood obviously shifts, so the cities. Regardless of whether we are aware or not, we are all in some kind of spatial transaction and, even with the famous sleepiness after lunch, the afternoon period is characterized by a more pronounced people-environment interaction. Then, with its daily-dose-of-sunlight easygoing tracks, this second part sets the connection between morning and night periods, mixing sinusoidal musical choices. From the beginning of the drowsy afternoon to the end of the afternoon rewarding, thoughtful, and so the breeze blows, the first star came out, and nobody knows what to expect.
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Every single song on this stellar compilation is a moody and memorable dose of deephouse, each wearing the intricacies and intelligence of their design lightly. If you have room in your heart for smart and emotionally grown-up electronica, you'd be doing yourself an enormous disservice overlooking this. Ben Harris
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