baile funk - search and destroy

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oh shit. i forgot! heres another anecdote about that song. i went to baltimore a few days later with my same roommate and my other friend, and stopped to get gas on the way. i rolled down their windows at the crowded gas station while blasting "pavaroty", because i think im way funnier than i actually am. this pizza delivery guy yells out "is that (blahblahblah)?" i was like, "oh its baile funk - brazilian stuff...", and hes like "yeah - im from brazil - those guys are from my town - thats an awesome song." it was amazing. and from now on, i swear by baile funk.

Though I don't know if he's keeping up with newer stuff.

A friend of mine came back from Rio a couple of weeks ago and claims he has some Rio Funk which he *should* be copying for me. If I manage to get hold of it and it's any good I'll put it up.

It's fun?

It's fun?"

Not just that. Because it's raw, and a bit naive. Like these people have only just discovered this thing with shouting over drum-beats. They aren't oppressed by nearly 30 years of hip-hop history. It's their corner of the world and their chance to make something special with it. And we don't know how it's going to turn out. But it's definitely going somewhere.

That's what makes it like grime in the UK or reggaeton in the states.

For me that's exciting. Also because Brazil is an uber-rockist culture, completely "respectful" of being able to play your instruments well, and idolizing the giants of early 70s Tropicalia like Gilberto Gil. Even the drum'n'bass stars like Marky and XRS land are kind of polished and playing within the game.

But this stuff *really* annoys them. (Note "Elvis is dead"'s comment on Proíbidao/Baile Funk ) Respecatable midde-class Brazilians are completely embarrassed and hate it. But it's so damned invasive they can't escape it. :-)

There are mp3s to be found here and there on the, but outside of the handful of compilations there doesn't seem to be an easy way of hearing too much of this. This site is a good place to start:

http://www.evil-wire.org/~ampere/mp3/funky/

Anyhow, Search...Batutinha DJ, Bonde do Tigrao, DJ Funk Boy. Everything I've gotten my hands on with these names attached has been good. Batutinha DJ's 'Megamon' was the track that got me interested in Baile Funk so it might be a good one to start with.

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http://www.boomselection.info/

I've heard nothing but good things about Diplo too. He responded well to SFJ on SFJ's blog.

MC Jaqueline Pocahontas - Vem Meu Bem

is GREAT

http://www.evil-wire.org/~ampere/mp3/funky/ta_dominado/index.html

track 8

Except reggaeton is boricua not estadounidense.

here's a picture with the name/address

there's a bunch of other clubs next door and around the square... they seemed to playing host to the less economically priveleged and are a better bet than the clubs in Ipanema - although there are a few that looked fucking stylish (decor and people)

My friend wrote this about Rio... it may have some useful tips

Actually, that might not be the address, but its in Lapa and by the aqueducts next to a bunch of other clubs

simon reynolds won't condone it.

moar please

Buraka Som Sistema - General

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ52w8-jTUQ

Not baile funk in the purest sense but one of my favorite things in the genre.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/magazine/the-world-cup-soundtrack.html?emc=edit_th_20140608&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=37355772&_r=0

excerpt from NY Times Magazine story:

Practitioners of proibidão, the prohibited funk style that champions drug gangs, were forced to move to unpacified favelas or change their style to “light,” with the watered-down lyrics the term implies.

Commercially, this shift coincided with broader mainstream acceptance of funk, as performers like MC Koringa found acceptance for their songs on the nightly soap operas. In São Paulo, a brash new variety called funk ostentação (ostentation) has emerged, with singers flaunting wads of cash and imported sports cars. Where did Neymar, the star of Brazil’s national soccer team, go to relax before the World Cup? The Dom Room, a funk club near São Paulo. Reflecting the genre’s elasticity, some in Brazil’s evangelical Christian community decided it was time to join the funk scene rather than criticize it. Thus the subgenre of “gospel funk,” featuring biblical-inspired lyrics.

Yet in Rio, funk’s cradle, some of the marginalized proibidão singers persist. Some work in favelas still controlled by gangs, reflecting Rio’s fractious urban peace process. Fewer than 300 of the city’s estimated 1,000 or so favelas are pacified; even in slums now featuring a large police presence, there has been a startling spike in shootings of police officers this year. Around the city, muggings have surged. The homicide rate is also climbing once again in Rio, setting the city on edge just as visitors start arriving for the World Cup.

Amid this tension, new funk stars are emerging, exemplified to a large extent by women like Valesca Popozuda and Anitta. One rising voice in Rio’s clubs is MC Lexa, 19, whose real name is Léa Araújo. She doesn’t come from a favela, pacified or otherwise, but from Jacarepaguá, a sprawling suburban area interspersed with slums. On the cusp of stardom, MC Lexa delayed her civil-engineering studies and has begun performing in cities like Brasília and São Paulo. “Few people have a real chance for a career in funk,” she says. “I need to make this moment count.”

Simon Romero is the Brazil bureau chief for The New York Times.

Nice update (or at it leasts it seems like one)on a genre I lost touch with

I don't know anything about this stuff in 2018, but I do like stumbling on unknown-to-me songs with more than half a billion YT views:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P7S2lKif-A

which is enough to get you a remix with Future, J Balvin, and Stefflon Don: https://youtu.be/8JdC1NmhTVU

The first Brazilian TikTok hit (according to the article I linked):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR7O8IekguY
MC Niack • Na Raba Toma Tapão [produced by DJ Markim WF]

Just acapella voice and some bass and synthy brass blurts, no beats. The use of negative space in this music is something else.

https://g1.globo.com/pop-arte/musica/noticia/2020/05/27/como-na-raba-toma-tapao-foi-de-desafio-no-tiktok-ao-topo-das-paradas-do-brasil.ghtml

Also really like this one, more poppy I guess, and with beats this time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pBws6pwY-E
Vytinho NG & MC Bianca • Tudo no Sigilo

And this sparser one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h53iBmEKupg
MC Dricka • E Nós Tem Um Charme Que é Da Hora

I love that MC Niack one, ty

Another hot MC Niack track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z40U2Xu-r2A
MC Niack ft. Dj Rique Sales • Oh Juliana

*I think* this is the original version, but I can’t be sure with all the remixes that are dropping like flies. This one adds distorted accordion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp6Kqf7gGl0
MC Niack • Oh Juliana (DJ TM Remix)

(btw he’s on Spotify as both “MC Niack” and just “Niack”)

appreciate you posting these!

there's a spotify "baile chill" list that I find quite nice, has this thing by Tui
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsxZX7s2rJg

this track was nominated in the EOY:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg1LEfymrts
MC Teteu • Eu Sou Pivete Mas Não To Moscando

would be nice if we could follow this scene more closely this year.

yeah I voted for that, little dude can belt! no drums at all but bangs so hard

haha, love it

see also the track I posted upthread (that was on my ballot):

MC Niack • Na Raba Toma Tapão [produced by DJ Markim WF]

Just acapella voice and some bass and synthy brass blurts, no beats. The use of negative space in this music is something else.

yeah that one is perfect

would be nice if we could follow this scene more closely this year.

here here

^^ not on top of this at all, unfortunately, but this track, which features Vytinho NG, who did the superfun “Tudo no Sigilo” (see 51 weeks upthread), pushes all my buttons - it has that fairground attraction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_9hF6jrU_M
VT Kebradeira ft. Vytinho NG & MC Zaquin • Garota Sensual

(no official video yet, just VT and his garotos sensuais)

Great track, ty

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/14/if-it-doesnt-smell-like-funk-somethings-wrong-with-your-recipe-brazilian-baile-funk-goes-global-again

Baile funk circa 2023

there's some interesting stuff on that "phonk"-playlist though it doesn't all sound very baile funk to me

here's a 23 year old:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS9z2QHcZdY

with 500 million streams on spotify

feels like a type of popular music that's not really discussed here on ilm (maybe because we don't have posters that young)

Damn, need to listen to these
https://billdifferen.blogspot.com/2024/03/funk2023pt2.html

Surprised I never posted in this thread during my MC Bin Laden obsession

oh nm, guess I was posting in the MC Bin Laden thread

loving the dj anderson do paraiso album
https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/querid-o

MC Bin Laden now a contestant in Big Brother Brasil btw