Got this interesting email. "Your song made it to the upper echelon of its genre, and will now move on to the next level to battle it out with its peers in Round 3." Yes, it's Garageband.com again, and it seems Tapete is getting some attention.

Tapete, part of the 1999 edition of Projeto Hyper, features vocals by Marion Velasco. There's also some great work by bass player Leandro Adriano.

This morning the song was at position 16 -the sole Brazilian representative on the top 20 - on the current electronic charts, which are constantly being updated. Garageband is a strange forum where insane people critique your music to earn free stuff. That's how you move around on their charts, via the insane-person point-casting system. So I feel honored to have made it to the “upper echelon of the electronica genre.” Congrats to the talented people whose performances are featured on the song.

This morning I was looking through the 30 unread reviews for Tapete and there were actually several interesting comments. Some people liked the "Foreign Lyrics," with some thinking it was Japanese. Japanese? One person from Switzerland guessed, "is this Portuguese?" Can't fool those Swiss. And another thought Tapete was "too cool for English." My fave, however: "I wouldn't buy it, but I'd sleep to it in a book store."

where is it now?