Felinto’s a cementing bridge in São Paulo’s underground scene, where bands like Deafkids and Rakta have proved there are no real divisions between jazz, metal, goth, dub, and music-as-activism. Felinto drives works and strategies to elevate the Brazilian Black population using sound design, hatha yoga, and educational meditation as tools to deal with conflict.

He’s a co-founder of Coletivo Sistema Negro (Black System Collective), acts as a Yoga teacher, and hosts Modulação Preta (Black Modulation), a webseries with interviews and live sets focused on black artists exploring electronic music outside of the Brazilian mainstream. Finally, he’s a member of Radio Buxixo, a collective which organizes meetings for group listening and discussion of new releases by independent artists.