2025 Mix 18: Chart fungus and its antidote (this mix!); heatseekers of the heart from Poland, Vietnam, and Italy; and as many subgenres of motorik as I (read: someone else) can name
At least on YouTube, the most streamed version of "Passo Bem Solto" is the "slowed" version; in second place is the "ultra-slowed" version. In any version it doesn't seem to me to be more than replacement-level catchy. I assume its success is at least a little more than just cumulative advantage, so there's something I'm not comprehending. One of the comments on Ultra Slow admires the way that version highlights the background. Stream totals don't seem all that high, either, though Slow is about 2 million times as high as *my* favorite Brazilian tracks this year, e.g. this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MFXzpP-57U
Kotolga, who only has 2 tracks, both collabs, on Spotify, jumps straight onto my playlist for the Jvcki Wai/Zheani vibes and also for sounding like Oklou if Oklou hadn't done nearly as well at school.
Hmmn, motorik now means soft-peddling a Can pulse. Had a discussion the other day with Simon Sweetman about which rock drummers live on in electronica - not many are distinctive enough but John Bonham and Jaki Liebezeit seem to be immortal.
That is good - one or 2 tracks that seem to reference Jvcki Wai, with the flow, metal arpeggios, and fuzzy tones, tho I don't know all the possible intermediaries. Zheani is a bit Polish, has a studio there, and played Warsaw last year (also has a Serbian collaborator in Venesiaworld).
Over the weekend, I posted my latest "Radio Not Radio" episode: https://www.mixcloud.com/callinamagician/542025-radio-not-radio/. Among many others, it features Dominican pop group Mula and South Sudanese singer Leek Makeuk Deng Melou.
Ha, just Shazammed my first song from this and it's the one you mentioned in this comment!
Nice transition into Talking Heads, too
At least on YouTube, the most streamed version of "Passo Bem Solto" is the "slowed" version; in second place is the "ultra-slowed" version. In any version it doesn't seem to me to be more than replacement-level catchy. I assume its success is at least a little more than just cumulative advantage, so there's something I'm not comprehending. One of the comments on Ultra Slow admires the way that version highlights the background. Stream totals don't seem all that high, either, though Slow is about 2 million times as high as *my* favorite Brazilian tracks this year, e.g. this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MFXzpP-57U
Sometimes you've got to be your own snowball, even if it seems like you're pushing it uphill instead of down
Kotolga, who only has 2 tracks, both collabs, on Spotify, jumps straight onto my playlist for the Jvcki Wai/Zheani vibes and also for sounding like Oklou if Oklou hadn't done nearly as well at school.
Hmmn, motorik now means soft-peddling a Can pulse. Had a discussion the other day with Simon Sweetman about which rock drummers live on in electronica - not many are distinctive enough but John Bonham and Jaki Liebezeit seem to be immortal.
You might want to delve more into Poland, I would bet there are more Kotolgas around. I think Bambi is probably too far on the trap side of fairy trap, but she does have a good album out https://open.spotify.com/album/1HU76pMBDYXhvPr8IwviVS?si=IaLju-m3SzSqTW1Y0IzgCw
If you figure out how to make sense of the more tasteless pockets of Polish rap-pop without random playlist dumpster diving, do let me know lol
That is good - one or 2 tracks that seem to reference Jvcki Wai, with the flow, metal arpeggios, and fuzzy tones, tho I don't know all the possible intermediaries. Zheani is a bit Polish, has a studio there, and played Warsaw last year (also has a Serbian collaborator in Venesiaworld).