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Raw Carimbo and Forrò sounds from the North of Brazil courtesy of Sofrito.

I Love Dust Designer , Mega Munden who illustrated the cover of our Psychedelic Pernambuco release (Rozenblit / Mr Bongo) launched his new website this week. Go take a look!

Glasgow Film Festival 2012 will take place from 16 - 26 February in sixteen different venues across the city (including a swimming pool and The Tall Ship). Feature films, shorts, special events, and live and interactive happenings sit side by side in their unique programme.

Hugo Mendez, Frankie Francis and co. have posted all of their previous Sofrito flavoured mixtapes online, and you can now subscribe to them on iTunes or direct at http://sofrito.postbocks.com/

On October 30, 1975, three days before he was murdered, Pier Paolo Pasolini was in Stockholm to present what was to be his last film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, to Swedish critics. A roundtable discussion was recorded with the intent of turning it into a radio broadcast but news of the filmmaker's death oddly resulted in the withholding of the recording rather than, as would surely happen today, an immediate publication. Eventually, the recording was lost, but as Eric Loret and Robert Maggiori tell the story in Libération, Pasolini's Swedish translator, Carl Henrik Svenstedt, a passionate archivist, recently discovered his own private copy. In December, the Italian newsweekly L'espresso posted the audio recording and published an Italian transcript. Here, for the first time, is an English translation. After a couple of informal questions, the roundtable officially opens with "Ladies and gentlemen…"