It’s a big anniversary for this criminally under-appreciated compilation of Brazilian pop music—and so we’re putting it out on (double! color!) vinyl for the first time. Don’t miss out this time!

Beleza Tropical 2 was David Byrne’s follow up (10 years later) to Beleza Tropical, the record that kicked off his big time career in the record label business. It celebrated how Brazilian artists had taken the legacy of tropicalia and run with it in their own wildly different directions. The greats that appear here—Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, and Tom Zé, Luaka Bop’s patron saint—are put in the fresh context of the next gen: Chico Science, Marisa Monte, Daniela Mercury, and Arnaldo Antunes, to name a few.

We’ll let the man behind the record take us home:

“Brazilians are the original masters of mixology, blend and hybridization. We're just catching up to what they've been doing for years, decades even.

That first record [Beleza Tropical] reflected the coming of age, the maturity, of the tropicalismo generation—the late 60s revolutionary movement in the arts that advocated cultural cannibalism: absorbing, “eating” and appropriating anything and everything from anywhere. This new collection reflects the impact and energy of a new generation who, rather than seeking to overturn or discredit the work of its predecessors, wants to build on it, add to it, and continue absorbing greater and more contemporary influences.

Rap, sampling, psychedelia, new and no-wave, funk and punk are routinely swallowed up and mixed with a myriad of Brazilian styles—the swing of samba, the pounding massed drums of Bloco Afro, the dance grooves of axé. The result is so transcendent, so full of life, that it counters the negativity of all the shit that’s going down, to paraphrase the Isleys. The music fights the power.”

New! More! Better! David Byrne’s Beleza Tropical 2 Is (Finally!) On Vinyl