Music and culture magazineSão Paulo
ISSUE 01 · OCTOBER 2026
Cover story · History
From Düsseldorf to Detroit: how electronic music became dance music between 1974 and 1988.
From the houseImpério (Cruaseca) out on 9 October Studio
25 stories in nine sections, each with a source for every fact. At the end, apart from the journalism, the Studio · From the house.
Contents
Issue 01 · October 2026
São Paulo
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Letter from the newsroom
This is the first issue of Revista Puressência laid out as a paper magazine: the 25 stories from the portal's nine sections, each with a source for every fact, on pages you can turn. This English edition carries each story's English title and summary; the full articles are published in Portuguese.
The cover story follows three stops, a studio in Düsseldorf, an eighth floor in New York and a late-night radio show in Detroit, to show how electronic music became dance music between 1974 and 1988. Two more History essays take other roads: the tapes that travelled hand to hand in Memphis, and Los Angeles G-funk.
The agenda runs from 15 October, with the 50th Mostra, to 13 December, in Belém. At the end, apart from the journalism and labelled “From the house”, is the Studio: Império returns in a Cruaseca version on 9 October.
The artwork is the house's own and is credited “Image: Puressência”. Spotted an error? Write to contatopuressencia@gmail.com.
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Corrections: contatopuressencia@gmail.com. They are noted under the story, with the date.
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Music
Music · News
For 2026, the Latin Recording Academy turned its Portuguese-language urban performance category into an album award, and all five nominees announced on September 16 are Brazilian. The same rulebook renames the electronic category, states that production tools alone do not qualify a track for it, and keeps works with no human authorship out of every category. The ceremony is set for November 12 in Las Vegas.
Music · News
Brazilian rapper Rodrigo Ogi released “Loopcínio Rodrigo, Vol. 1” on September 16, his first album credited entirely as a beatmaker, with 16 MCs from six Brazilian states rapping over his sample-based production. In an interview with Billboard Brasil he describes months of near-daily beatmaking, a habit that goes back to Fruity Loops in the early 2000s, and the cost of a sample that was exposed and claimed by a label. A second volume is due this year and a solo album produced by his new alias is planned for 2027.
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British producer and DJ Simon Green, known as Bonobo, released his eighth studio album, “Distance in Static”, on Ninja Tune on September 11. Lyrics are in English, Urdu and Japanese, and the 20-track Bandcamp edition follows the 14 tracks of the digital edition with instrumental versions of six guest tracks. Much of the record was finished at Neil Young's Broken Arrow Ranch, and a new live show designed by Pierre Claude opens with a North American tour.
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From Düsseldorf to Detroit:
Between Kraftwerk's Autobahn in 1974 and the 1988 British compilation that fixed the word techno, electronic music travelled from a private studio in Düsseldorf to a Bronx DJ's record, its keyboards played by hand in a New York studio, and to a late-night radio show in Detroit. This essay follows that route through the records, the studios and the people who carried it.
By Redação Puressência · 1 October 2026
History
History · Essay
In late 1980s and 1990s Memphis, DJs such as DJ Spanish Fly and DJ Squeeky recorded at home, sold cassettes at club windows and saw bootleg copies carry them to other Southern cities. This essay follows the compact cassette from a Philips lab to Memphis car stereos, and shows how tape hiss, dubbing and hand-to-hand circulation became part of a sound that later reached Atlanta, the Oscars and record collectors abroad.
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Between The Chronic in December 1992 and Regulate in 1994, a small circle of Los Angeles and Long Beach producers and rappers turned funk and soul records from the 1970s and early 1980s into the defining West Coast sound of the decade. This essay looks at the method behind G-funk (slower grooves, replayed P-Funk lines, a high synth lead) and at the violence that runs through its story.
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Opinion
At their June peak, fully AI-generated tracks made up more than half of daily uploads on one streaming service, while US authorities, the European Union and Brazilian lawmakers set rules on authorship, labeling and training. Puressência's editorial board argues for three rules: credit people by name, disclose where AI was used, and license what goes into training.
Opinion
Luminate streaming data show that most listening already goes to recordings older than 18 months, yet nostalgia alone keeps listeners in a loop. Puressência's editorial board argues that history, told with sources, links artists and audiences: from Kraftwerk to "Planet Rock" to the funk parties of Rio, and through open archives of early Brazilian recordings.
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Fashion · Report
On 29 September 2026, Anthony Vaccarello showed his Spring/Summer 2027 collection for Saint Laurent at the Trocadéro in Paris, with 49 gold looks before a closing turn to black. Charlotte Gainsbourg closed the show singing live, in a song described as a tribute to the designer, while reports that this could be his last collection remain unconfirmed by Saint Laurent or Kering.
Fashion · Report
In September 2026, Gap Inc. announced the first partnership of its Fashiontainment platform, a multi-year deal with the boy band JYT, covering a docuseries, a national mall tour, a co-designed capsule and stage wardrobe. Days earlier, Coach launched its Live Your Story campaign with four musicians, a Spotify hub and a touring Tabby bus. In both cases the brand moves from sponsor to co-producer of the music experience.
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Culture · Report
Susanna Lira's documentary on Brazilian songwriter Gonzaguinha (1945–1991) won the Kikito for best documentary feature at the 54th Gramado Film Festival and opened in Brazilian cinemas on 3 September 2026. The film is built almost entirely from archive footage, TV appearances and the artist's own interviews, with his songs as the thread through dictatorship and redemocratization. Actor André Dale plays him in scenes drawn from what he told the alternative weekly O Pasquim.
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The 50th São Paulo International Film Festival runs from 15 to 29 October 2026, opening on 14 October with James Gray's Paper Tiger at Sala São Paulo. This year the festival sets up a temporary screening room, the 6th Encontro de Ideias Audiovisuais (20–23 October) and an exhibition on its five decades at the Solar Fábio Prado. The line-up already includes Cannes winners and a restored selection of Armenian filmmaker Artavazd Pelechian, whose films replace dialogue with music.
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Technology · Report
On September 9, Suno released v6, a family of three music-generation models that the company says it developed with industry partners, among them Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe. On September 18, Universal Music and Sony Music went back to federal court in Boston with a second lawsuit covering 60,202 recordings. Their argument is that v6 carries over the earlier infringement, since, according to the complaint, it learned from how users interacted with older models that had been trained on unlicensed music. The case comes after a German court in Munich ruled mostly against Suno in July, and while Brazil's AI bill, with its copyright chapter still unresolved, is expected to reach a vote only after the October elections.
Technology · Report
Apple has opened Apple Music Hall, its first live venue, inside Battersea Power Station in London. The room holds 600 people and is ringed by 48 loudspeakers for immersive sound; behind the stage sit two studios for recording and mixing, plus a control room wired for at least 16 cameras. According to Apple, one night on that stage can leave an artist with three things ready to use: a Spatial Audio master, a mix prepared for broadcast and video shot from many angles. Shows are streamed live around the world through Apple Music. Elton John opened the venue on September 28, and the official site lists shows through December 2.
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Startups · Report
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, started in 2024 by Máuhan M. Zonoozy, who used to run innovation at Spotify, has secured a pre-seed round, as TechCrunch reported on September 14. Calling itself a music software label, the company puts out small web and iOS apps, among them the stem player Stacks and the remix app bop, meant for playing with songs instead of just streaming them. Zonoozy told TechCrunch he is not convinced that AI song generation, on its own, is where music is headed; after the site tried the apps in August, the company introduced a text-prompt tool for making sounds.
Startups · Report
Modulate, an audio AI company based in Boston, said on September 28 that it had closed a new funding round. Future Ventures led it, and earlier investors Hyperplane and Lakestar also took part. The announcement is about voice AI broadly, yet since June Modulate has sold an API that checks music for AI generation, rating vocals and instrumentals separately in four-second windows, pitched to streaming platforms, distributors and rights organizations. The deal arrives as Deezer says fully AI-generated tracks made up more than half of its new daily uploads on peak days in June.
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Events · Report
Between October 16 and December 13, 2026, the Puressência events agenda lists five music festivals and one pop-culture convention in Natal, Petrópolis, Recife, São Paulo and Belém, all confirmed on official channels. Read side by side, the line-ups share names: Gaby Amarantos plays four of the five festivals, while NandaTsunami, Bia Soull and Ebony appear in three. What sets each event apart is format, from a street opening in Belém to a line-up repeated over two weekends in the mountains near Rio.
Events · News
Festival MADA takes over Arena das Dunas in Natal on the nights of October 16 and 17, 2026. The acts confirmed so far include Zeca Pagodinho, Gaby Amarantos, Marina Sena, Emicida, Tribo de Jah with guest Célia Sampaio, NandaTsunami and Bia Soull. Dates, city and venue come from the festival's official link hub and the event page published by its producer.
Events · News
Rock the Mountain returns to the Parque de Exposições in Itaipava, Petrópolis, over two weekends: October 30 to November 1 and November 6 to 8, 2026. According to the official line-up, the same artists play both weekends, from Jorge Ben Jor, Paulinho da Viola and Marcos Valle to M.I.A. and Jorja Smith. The site lists 12 stages, art installations, a vegetable garden and a recycling area.
Events · News
The 23rd No Ar Coquetel Molotov takes place on November 28, 2026, at the Federal University of Pernambuco campus in Recife, with more than 25 acts across three stages and over 12 hours of music. The line-up pairs Azymuth, Fernanda Abreu's Da Lata 30th-anniversary show, Karol Conká and Boogarins with newer names, plus the Brazilian debuts of D'Leesa (US) and Naaz (Netherlands). From November 25 to 27, the Coquetel Molotov Negócios industry programme runs in Recife Antigo.
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Events · News
CCXP26 runs from December 3 to 6, 2026, at São Paulo Expo, on the Rodovia dos Imigrantes. The convention describes itself as a meeting of film, series, comics, music, anime, cosplay and dubbing, spread over six themed stages and an Artists' Valley that, according to the organisers, gathers more than 450 artists. The official site recommends the metro to Jabaquara station, followed by a walk of about 15 minutes.
Events · News
Primavera Sound São Paulo holds its third edition on December 5 and 6, 2026, at the Interlagos racetrack, which also hosted the 2023 edition. The Strokes headline Saturday and Gorillaz headline Sunday, with FKA twigs, Yung Lean and CMAT making their Latin American debuts and Lily Allen returning to Brazil after more than fifteen years. Brazilian acts include Gaby Amarantos, Duquesa, Zé Ibarra, Ana Frango Elétrico and DJ Ramon Sucesso.
Events · News
Festival Psica runs from December 11 to 13, 2026, in Belém, with more than 40 acts from Pará, the wider Amazon and the rest of Brazil. The Friday opening is a free programme of processions, sound systems and concerts in the historic Cidade Velha district; Saturday and Sunday move to the Mangueirão stadium. The line-up includes Alceu Valença, Zeca Pagodinho, Gaby Amarantos, Criolo, Marcelo D2 and Pinduca with guest Eliana Pittman.
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Environment · Report
For its September 2026 edition, Rock in Rio extended carbon compensation beyond the festival grounds to include how the audience, suppliers and staff travelled to and from the site, estimating about 50,000 tonnes of CO2e from 2024 data. A December 2025 MIT Climate Machine study of more than 80,000 events found that fan travel accounts for 62% of live music emissions in the US and 77% in the UK. The festival planned to survey attendees about their journeys during its seven days, but neither its official wrap-up of September 15 nor its energy partner's later statements included a final emissions figure.
Environment · Report
The record industry's first carbon report, in 2024, put an average vinyl record at about 1.15 kg CO2e and said bio-attributed PVC could cut that by around 44%; in May 2025 the Vinyl Alliance said that saving had been overstated. Product-level footprints published by the Music Climate Pact in June 2026 put a typical 140g PVC record at 0.93 kg CO2e, against 0.54 kg for injection-moulded PET and 0.38 kg with recycled PET. Avoiding air freight, choosing 140g black records and simple packaging remain the most reliable levers.
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From the houseRelease
Puressência has set 9 October 2026 for the release of Império in its Cruaseca version, with a new beat. The track brings together MZZ Original, Offic Deive, Chael da Capital and Ocplugz, the same writers credited on the 2022 version. That version came out on the La Casa Track channel, with beat, mixing and mastering by Puressência Produtora.
From the houseFact: September 2026
The special edition “A volta”, published with Puressência in September 2026, presents El Regreso by Marcus Chocollate: voice and guitar and new songs. The teaser is out, and thirteen tracks from the campaign soundtrack play there as 30-second previews. “A volta”, special edition with Marcus Chocollate (Issue 01 · September 2026) ↗
From the houseFact: September 2026
Prince Andre's website now gathers eleven videos released as Prince Andre IX, Amozz and MZZ Original, names of the same artist, from 2019 to 2022. Each video carries the credits from its official description and opens on YouTube; among them are Império, Cruz e Souza and Pode Completar, with beat, mixing or mastering by Puressência. Prince Andre's official website ↗
From the houseFact: September 2026
A.MOTION, Puressência Produtora's studio for motion design, 3D, websites and digital product, has a new website in Portuguese and English. It brings together services, portfolio, a journal and contact by email. A.MOTION studio website ↗
From the houseFact: September 2026
Prince Andre, the house artist, has an official website in Portuguese and English, with his story, videos, press and booking contact. The site is a Puressência campaign, powered by A.MOTION. Prince Andre's official website ↗
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Read online ↗AgendaOctober to December
Festivals, shows and screenings from October to December 2026, with dates confirmed on official channels (sources checked on 30 September 2026). No ticket prices.
| Date | Event | City and venue | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 OCT15–29 October 2026 (invitation-only opening on 14 October) | 50ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema em São Paulo | São Paulo (SP) Solar Fábio Prado (av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 2705, Jardim Paulistano); opening at Sala São Paulo; other venues at mostra.org | Official site ↗Source ↗ |
| 16 OCT16–17 October 2026 | Festival MADA | Natal (RN) Arena das Dunas | Official site ↗Source ↗ |
| 30 OCT30–31 October and 1 November; 6–8 November 2026 | Rock the Mountain | Petrópolis (RJ) Parque de Exposições de Petrópolis (Estrada União e Indústria, 10000, Itaipava) | Official site ↗Source ↗ |
| 28 NOV28 November 2026 | No Ar Coquetel Molotov | Recife (PE) UFPE campus | Official site ↗Source ↗ |
| 03 DEC3–6 December 2026 | CCXP26 | São Paulo (SP) São Paulo Expo (Rodovia dos Imigrantes, km 1,5) | Official site ↗Source ↗ |
| 05 DEC5–6 December 2026 | Primavera Sound São Paulo | São Paulo (SP) Autódromo de Interlagos | Official site ↗Source ↗ |
| 11 DEC11–13 December 2026 | Festival Psica | Belém (PA) Cidade Velha (11 Dec) and Estádio Olímpico do Pará, known as Mangueirão (12–13 Dec) | Official site ↗Source ↗ |
| 09 OCTRelease | From the houseImpério (Cruaseca) | On streaming platforms | Entry ↗ |
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Issue 01 of Revista Puressência, October 2026, laid out as a paper magazine. This English edition carries the English titles and summaries of the 25 stories; the full articles, with every source, are published in Portuguese, and the full Portuguese issue can be flipped through and downloaded as a PDF. The artwork is the house's own and is credited “Image: Puressência”.
