6 musical playlists to take on the road

Yes, it's an old iPod ... © Daisuke Matsumura

Some cities alone embody a style of music . Few decibels in your ears and you are transported there, dancing in the street.

1 Scandinavian pop in stockholm

No, the Swedes are not confined to the tunes of Abba goupe. Since the late 1990s, pop made ​​in Sweden supplies the international charts. The country is the third largest exporter of music, and Stockholm , the capital, has the largest number of recording studios in the world per capita of raw Artists: Cardigans, Jay-Jay Johansson, Peter Bjorn and John, Robyn, to sweep wide. But Britney Spears also made the trip. Secrets to Success, a musical education provided everywhere, from early childhood, and pairs singer / songwriter who deliver series of tubes, faster and cheaper than elsewhere.

Stockholm is home to concert halls and studios galore. Good submittals: The Pet Sounds Bar, with its animated by DJ-sets and monthly concerts sharp enough cellar; the Sodra Bar, panoramic city views and weekly concerts; the Mosebacke with its terrace facing the island of Skeppsholmen and the old town, which produces the cream of the Swedish scene; not to mention the Scandic Malmen, a luxury four-star, including the bar area sees DJ succeed overnight. No time to search? Here is a 100% Scandinavian Spotify playlist

2. brit pop in London

A burst of national pride and nostalgia for little guys from Manchester London for their famous predecessors from 1960-1970. Brit pop revolutionized nothing but flourished in response to the wave grunge worn by Nirvana and others. Rhythm and catchy melodies. With two groups jostling for the proles Oasis' d and the citizens of Blur. Not to mention Suede or Belle and Sebastian, bearers of the Cool Britannia partially incorporated the aesthetics and the look of the Mod's. The vein is still not exhausted. Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand dig it, casually.

The area not to be missed to breathe the smell of brit pop, it's Camden Town . Today melting pot of all-out fashions, gothics of the alters through the punks, Camden still offers bars and shops in the colors of Cool Britannia, velvet, polo Fred Perry shoes and ad hoc. The style has spread around London but the East End holds more indie places to discover to Shoreditch and Brick Lane.

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3 The Motown Detroit

Detroit's working now affected, owes its nickname Motown ("Motor Town") to the car but it will always remain associated with the music. Blues and jazz were already deeply rooted in the city when a young entrepreneur named Berry Gordy created the Motown label in 1959 to produce the soul, then expanding. Aided by his flair and a sense of terrible business, Gordy had signed promising young talents (Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, to name a few), it propelled to the top of the charts . Behind these headliners, studio musicians remained in the shadows, the Funk Brothers, who designed a recognizable sound thousand blend of soul tinged pop influences net. Gordy gave Detroit in 1972 to Los Angeles , but the city remained a hotbed of music: punk-rock of The Stooges, rock duo White Stripes or rapper Eminem originate, as well as DJ pioneers techno movement as Juan Atkins, Jeff Mills, Carl Craig ...

Detroit keeps the memory of the golden age of soul music at Motown Historical Museum, established the very place where Berry Gordy launched his label. The museum is located 3 miles northwest of Midtown. Ravaged by a long decline due to the crisis in the automobile industry, Detroit has a scruffy appearance but not less unique energy of its kind.

4. funk in Rio (Brazil)

DJ Marlboro and all MCs (Masters of Ceremony) of Rio's favelas who tinker sound embody the so-called funk carioca. Born into a musical junction funk and Miami bass, funk Rio baile funk often called (literally, "funk ball") outside its borders, the rage in Brazil , where it appeared in its present form in 1980s (with the development of electronics). Words very strong sexual connotations (even on free sexual evocations, coupled with a swaying pictured), social demands apology gang songs, hip-hop to melody (rarely romantic, it must be clear ) collide with great bursts of fast rhythms and samplings. With Zebulon Fyah, another figure of the Brazilian scene, reggae there intrudes more. A mixed style that remains the preserve of Afro-Brazilians and deprived and, like any symbol of social breakdown, is often found in the government's sights.

Has been compared funk carioca a social program because it makes many people live in Rio. There are nearly 500 bailes week in the state of Rio, which include thousands of funkeiros! Zona Sul samba schools (excluding preparation of Carnival), clubs such as Clube do Boqueirão and favelas Cantalago near Ipanema, Morro dos Prazeres or swarm Dj and tracks. Do not pack so far, these places are home to a social mix highly ritualized code of conduct, you will not have all the keys. Keeping advised, pectoral air for boys, naked belly and torn jeans for girls. It's hot, but above all entertaining and choreographed. For insiders.

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5. Electro Berlin

Techno and electro, minimal or not, have had a love affair with Berlin since the 1990s and the fall of the Wall. DJs and mixtapes entered the legend with the club treasury and all the boxes turned on their disco balls in basements and brownfields banks of the Spree. Romantic, dark, new wave, night spectrum of electro Berlin has continued to widen. It is a German specialty, the first recording electronic music studio was born in Cologne in 1951, half a century later, the Berlin underground scene multiplies the experiments and the best clubs produce their sounds in their label.

"Berlin is poor but sexy city" according to its mayor. This is less true as the city built at any cost but night owls are still there on their behalf. The list is long of trendy places: Berghain course, the Sistine electro in the district of Friedrichshain , voted best club in the world in 2009; Bar 25 at Kreuzberg (dormant but will reopen) Maria Am Ostbanhof, a techno club housed in a decrepit shed Friedrichshain; or the Kit Kat Club, known for its fetish parties.

To recover the spirit up, go in this huge playground what became of the old airport Tempelhoff. That's cool, family, airy, short, typical Berlin.

6 Hip-hop in Dakar (Senegal)

Formed in the 1980s, the Senegalese hip-hop scene has entered the everyday culture of a country sung by griots through Tassu, these improvised from a proverb poems. Dakar's youth American beats coupled with lyrics and sounds very local color, expressing rebellion in music without the materialistic side of the Atlantic rap. The group Daara J was a big craze in 2004 for his album Boomerang. Its two members, Ndongo D Faada and Freddy make a pair to be positive despite the misery: one raps with rage and rigor when other flights in music, alternately snarling and voluptuous. Other hip-hop artists of the Senegalese scene: Xuman, Nixx, Biss Bi Clan, among many others.

The National Battle-Dance Hip-Hop in Dakar gathers the cream of musicians and dancers in the country. But neither the place nor the opportunities are lacking in the capital of hip-hop in Francophone Africa to bathe in this urban music and voluble. Component inseparable graf and street art now covers bridges, fences and walls of the city. Blazes stars: Zeinix, 2mgraff or Docta.