Hello, harmonies (days of future posts)

[koganbot]

Internet was out for a day-and-a-half, when I'd intended to write something for lj/daydreamwidth; so here are several entries you might see coming up:

--High harmonies from prog and K-pop.

--Baile funk is confoundingly great.

--Yes sir [politely], I can boogie - I can boogie, boogie-woogie, all night long [as opposed to all day and all of the night].

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Baile funk

[skyecaptain]

Hope you'll get to this one. It's funny, in the last month or two as I've tried to pull in more playlists to my weekly listening I've been realizing I need to keep a completely separate playlist for 2021 baile funk because there are so many different incredible things happening in it that I basically feel overwhelmed. Sounds and timbres that don't belong in songs at all that somehow *anchor* them, verses shouted in from the back of the room that still take the spotlight, horrible noise that can somehow stay horrible even as it makes you want to dance.

Just to take one totally random example...for whatever reason this song sounded perfect on a short songs mix (mostly culled from People's Pop noms -- the challenge I set was 50 songs on a CD-R, and it worked, though I had to cheat by editing out a few seconds here and there when I actually made the CD):

WESLEY GONZAGA SARRA NELA COM FUZIL- MC CYCLOPE - MC LAURETA - DJ WESLEY GONZAGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0M7V3ZZPVw

For a good stretch this song is propelled primarily by a gun being cocked and a synth piano line that sounds like what happens when you're about to change the battery in your smoke detector and it chirps right in your face. And it fucking rocks.