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Kanadian Musik Freak!!

I'm the guitarist of 3 musical projects/bands in the Porto Alegre area:

Funkafonik - my prog-funk-rock band (1st demos very soon)
http://www.myspace.com/funkafonik

The Mike Portnoy Forum Project
http://www.mikeportnoy.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=1362711
http://www.mikeportnoy.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=1364754

Acoustika - an acoustic Metallica tribute (playing now)
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=6373104

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My passion in music is the proggy "funk metal", excellent/virtuosic drumming/percussions, band chemistry, quirky songwriting & rhytmic acoustic guitar.

My 2 musical mentors representing that are:

Nuno Bettencourt - Extreme, Mourning Widows & DramaGods (ex-Population 1);

Mike Portnoy & Dream Theater (and all the related side/solo projects)

Favorite styles: Progressive-Funk-Rock-Alternative-Metal & Acoustic
With some: Blues, Flamenco, Jazz, Fusion, World & New Age/Ambient
And a touch of: Classical, Grunge, Industrial, Punk, Pop & Electronic

I can't stand anything hip-hop, rap & country, western (in general).

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My Last.FM - www.lastfm.com/user/funkafonik (since Dec 2004 at ~17000 plays in July 2006)

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1000th playcount - August 6 (25 songs/day)
2000th playcount - September 6 (29 s/d)
3000th playcount - October 25 (35 s/d)
4000th playcount - December 1 (26 s/d)
5000th playcount - January 2nd (24 s/d)

* In January 2007, I deleted months of June/July/August/September & October 2006 (reasons being the MyStrands catalog of albums was far from representing my library... until recently) so now my stats reflect my listening habits since November 2006... which brought the playcount back to 2K...

2xxxth playcount - January 11th
3000th playcount - January 16th
4000th playcount - February 22nd
5000th playcount - May 15th
6000th playcount - June 30th
7000th playcount - August 15th
8000th playcount - October 15th

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