DJ Wesley Gonzaga's "Sarra Nela Com Fuzil" may be the greatest example I've got of a particular strain of funk carioca, the tendency to subordinate or delete the bass entirely and make the rhythm come down from the top, voices or clave or handclaps or mouth farts or beeps or screeches or samples or squiggles. 2021 might turn out to have been the ( Read more... )

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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