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Alisson Gothz: “God Hates Brazil! Brazil is a pretty fair representation of a modern-day Sodom & the Antediluvian world – a nation of people given over to eating past full, drinking to the brim, fulfilling every lust that piques their slightest interest. Fags are loud and proud in Brazil, with their pride parade in Sao Paolo being the biggest in the world. In the same manner as Sodom & Gomorrah will Brazil – along with the rest of the world – be destroyed!”

Those are the words of a man we all know quite well, the very same who gave the world the slogan “God Hates Fags”, Reverend Fred Phelps of Topeka (Kansas/USA) – the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church. As pointed out last week by Brazilian web portal Virgula, his website “God Hates The World” now features a very curious and funny article about Sao Paulo and Brazil. The website is often offline so probably  you’ll need a little extra heavenly help to view it.

In his text, the world-famous anti-gay religious fanatic leader describes Sao Paulo as a city doomed by its gay citizens: “They have no shame & cannot have shame! The Lord created them for the express purpose to give them over to vile affections, to pickle them in their sins and destroy them in hell forever.” For him, the city’s Pride Parade is a place where “filthy freaks walk in a death march”.

“Sao Paolo (the 2nd largest city in the world) is a particularly evil city and it is undoubtedly the fag capitol of Brazil. In the same manner as Sodom & Gomorrah will Brazil – along with the rest of the world – be destroyed!”

Of course, one cannot take the Reverend’s remarks too seriously. As for myself, I’m not worried about his statements at all. Maybe we should rename Sao Paulo as “Disco Inferno” and dance until we die!!

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DJ Fergie

Irish tech-house star DJ Fergie spent almost 48 hours travelling to a gig in Sao Paulo only to learn that the festival was cancelled when he arrived.

Chatting to Skrufff this week, the nowadays Glasgow based former Radio 1 star revealed how he’d been forced to stay overnight in a Heathrow hotel after a flight delay meant he missed his connection, meaning he eventually arrived in Brazil just hours before he was due to perform at Science Fest.

“I was met at the airport by the promoter who told me the gig wasn’t happening because the police had cancelled the festival,” said Fergie. “I’m not exactly sure why.”

“On the bright side I was paid in advance and I guess this puts me in the elite few to have travelled half way round the world just for a meal,” he mused, “But I feel really sorry for the promoter and for people who paid for tickets to come and see me.”

Fergie’s gig was cancelled the same weekend as Sander Kleinenberg struggled in Serbia as the weather intervened to ruin a Belgrade party.

“Just heard the thunderstorms have scored too many points for this open air party,” Kleinenberg Tweeted. “Thunderstorm 1, Up-for-it crowd 0. Party canceled,” he added.

Progressive house pioneer Dave Seaman also used Twitter to announce a weather related no show gig this week, though messaged fans five days before his show was due to happen.

“Unfortunately my scheduled gig this Friday at Bora Bora in Galati, Romania has been cancelled due to flooding in the club,” Dave Tweeted.

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Renato Ratier (Click on the picture for more)

“Sometimes it’s hard to keep both sides going, to balance the nightlife with the day-life because I’m the sole owner of D-Edge so I have to be there in person to check what’s happened last night. I also like partying a lot; when I go to the club at night, I drink, I socialise and party.”

Sitting in his sumptuous Sao Paulo apartment, Renato Ratier smiles as he outlines the difficult balancing act he maintains running his uber-successful Brazilian club D-Edge against indulging the temptations from being one of South America’s most popular and successful house DJs.

“For example, on Thursday night I went to another club first, then D-Edge then after that some people said ‘let’s go to your flat and have an after-party there’. So we came back to my house and my friends ended up leaving at 4pm.”

“Then I had to go to the club to take care of some matters immediately afterwards,” he sighs. “That’s the difficult question for me: balancing everything. Of course, business is important and I need to take care of things but I really like the nightlife. So that’s difficult. Sometimes I need to go home early.”

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Camilo Rocha @ Vegas (click on the picture to download Camilo's latest Tech-o-disco DJ mix)

“The original vision for Discology was about good dance music from any era meaning disco but also funk, soul, old school hip hop, 80s dance, acid house, boogie, vintage electro, classic Detroit. The name Discology has actually more to do with ‘disc’ than ‘disco’.”

Though London and increasingly Paris have gone ‘nouveau disco’ crazy in the last 12 months, Sao Paulo club night Discology first began championing the trend 5 years earlier in underground clubs and minimally converted strip clubs around the city. The brainchild of top local journalists Claudia (Clau) Assef and Camilo Rocha (also one of Brazil’s best known DJs) the club nowadays takes place once a month at Vegas, one of the wildest and best clubs in Sao Paulo nightlife.

“The inspiration came from Clau and I looking at our massive record collections and thinking it was a real waste that they should stay home,” says Camilo, “At the time, 2003, local clubland was still dominated by linear DJ sets, so there was something radical about the notion of playing all these styles together, from many different eras.”

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I’ve just confirmed details of my next Brazilian tour which will be happening between November 5 and November 17. I’ll be spinning at D-Edge again on Wednesday November 11, with Sao Paulo legend DJ Magal, with more gig details to follow.

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