Chi Flow in Chi-Town

About a year ago a friend gave me a CD he'd been sent for free at the radio station called Juba Dance by this guy who splits his time between Chicago's southside and Brazil. He'd never listened to it. I'd never heard of it and since I have an unhealthy dependence on getting referred to what's cool, I downloaded and, after listening to an interesting track or two, forgot it for quite some time.

On a whim, I recently started playing it. I now can't stop. It' a cross between southside hip hop (is there something called southside hip hop; I don't know) and a Rio street fair. It's upbeat, full of awesome instrumentation and samples, including really great horns, and the ryhthms intoxicate. This is a link to his myspace. Look up his album Orange on Itunes and sample Fisherman's Jig.