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Afrociberdelia
1996
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Nação Zumbi (formerly Chico Science & Nação Zumbi) is a Brazilian band formed by Chico Science. They have been hailed as one of the most important groups to come out of the manguebeat movement in the 1990s. The musicians of the group continued as Nação Zumbi after Science died in a car accident on February 2, 1997.
In their songs they experiment with mixing of rock, punk, funk, hip hop, soul, Pernambuco's regional rhythms and Brazilian traditional music, with heavy use of percussion instruments.
They released two albums before the time of Chico's death, Da lama ao caos (From Mud to Chaos) in 1994 and Afrociberdelia in 1996. Both received critical acclaim.
In 1996, Nação Zumbi contributed Maracatu Atômico to the AIDS-Benefit Album Red Hot + Rio produced by the Red Hot Organization.
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Oct 17 2025
4
Afrociberdelia is a nice album by Chico Science. the songs are energetic rock with hip hop vocal delivery. The quality of the songs varies. Some are rather generic rock and sometimes the song and performance work great. I understand that the front man (Chico Science) died in a car crash after the this album was created, giving it some legendary status. Having non-English contributions is always refreshing, so it will get 4 stars to support our Brazilian friends.
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Oct 20 2025
5
This is great funny fun.
I think the version on Spotify is probably a “deluxe” extended edition so I’m choosing to rate the 1st 40mins - which is 5 star for me.
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Sep 27 2025
4
Sometimes it's pretty "generic rock but this time it's from Brazil". I would give this 3 stars. I like being exposed to music countries/cultures other than my own, but it is *very* run-of-the-mill.
Sometimes it veers into Thievery Corporation territory, especially with some of the album-closing remixes. I would give this 5 stars because it completely fucks.
So we'll average out to 4 and call it a day, thank you very much.
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Sep 27 2025
3
I applaud this for being something interesting. It doesn't work, but it's interesting. It's also way too long.
My personal rating: 2/5
My rating relative to the list: 3/5
Should this have been included on the original list? No.
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Sep 27 2025
3
It’s cool that all countries have goofy okay hip hop
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Oct 04 2025
3
Rockin
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Oct 03 2025
2
Foreign rap/rock that went on too long
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Oct 05 2025
2
This was ok, but didn’t stand out as anything special. Maybe the langue barrier didn’t help.
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Oct 08 2025
2
This is one of the only times I think I've ever said "this isn't what I expected" and meant it negatively. The album cover screams 90s, but the genres and general vibes told me this may be something fun to dive in to, despite its length. However, after the first few tracks the rock influences started to wear on me, just being cheesy, and by the end, despite a couple tracks almost grabbing me, I was ready to be done with the singer's frankly annoying voice and the general repetitiveness of the whole project, despite the small variations between tracks. Maybe if it was a shorter album I would be nicer, but I come away from this just feeling like I wasted my time, but maybe I should've expected that would happen the whole time.
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Oct 10 2025
2
I don't really like hip hop in my own language, you can tell they're having fun with it though.
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Oct 13 2025
2
hahah wtf is this
2
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