This is the story of Brazilian Phonk.
One of looksmaxxers, aura edits, online incels, Clavicular, anonymous producers, the black-pill, money, and surprisingly little about Brazil.
shout outs to @kieranpressreynolds + @andrewbiianchi for their great
write ups on phonk
A series about decentralizing the 🇺🇸 hegemony and getting into music that says something about the world we live in.
Just got back from Rio, so today we’re going deep into the Pindorama 🇧🇷
Three records that rejected colonial notions of identity in very different ways.
Three more next time.
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#musicdiscovery #musiccuration #history #culture
GEESE, CHAOTIC GOOD, PALANTIR, and TASTE
Trend simulation is what Chaotic Good calls running networks of TikTok and Instagram accounts, fan pages, meme pages, niche accounts, that flood comments on their clients’ songs, with the aim of controlling the narrative as it develops in the comments.
Ditch anyone trying to sell you on how to have Good Taste™️ or comments telling you anything is good or bad.
Personal taste is never found there.
#goodtaste #goose #geese #chaoticgood
Cultural colonization is the systematic imposition of a group’s cultural framework or identity (typically 🇺🇸/🇪🇺) over all others. dcye.mp4 is a series where we present music shoved aside as a result of those impositions to learn more about the world we live in.
I’m doing a sub-series on Mexico, where I’m from, and the folk music from there that’s criminally underrated.
Today, we’ll look at Veracruz and the mystical Son Jarocho.
ft. @silvanaestradab@losvegasonjarocho_
#gracianasilva
#musiccurator #dcye #newmusic
@pinkpantheress made one of the best projects of 2025 by looking backward, but maybe that’s part of the problem.
Economic uncertainty and global instability have contributed to what theorists call “the slow cancellation of the future” - a condition where our culture actively avoids its own future, so we only ever look back. Take vaporwave and the 80’s revival from a few years ago, the ‘grunge revival’, the incoming disco revival or indie sleaze (YMMV on the last one).
As with all things related to entire populations, this is, of course, broadly speaking. There are many people who dare to look forward and the music sounds otherworldly. We’ll talk about that in another video.
A series about decentralizing the 🇺🇸 hegemony and getting into music that says something about the world you live in.
Today we’re talking jazz, and while these records aren’t exactly obscure, knowing the context around them matters. Each one represents a significant rupture against the internal cultural colonization of jazz, the white critical gatekeeping that repeatedly tried to define what the music “really” was.
AI has hit jazz streaming income harder than almost any other genre.
This playlist is older, but I’ll be highlighting younger jazz artists in future videos and actively trying to push the algorithm back toward real musicians.
Three more next time.
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COMMENT ‘Brasil’ for the playlist 🎧🇧🇷❕
A series about decentralizing the 🇺🇸 hegemony and getting into music that says something about the world we live in.
Brasil in the 90s was on fire, too, and here are three records that prove it.
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A series about decentralizing the 🇺🇸 hegemony and getting into music that says something about the world we live in.
Today, we’re checking out four (4) records by Black artists who were overlooked in their day, but their influence cannot be overstated:
Labi, Meshell and Beverly are all queer and pioneered their respective genres, it’s time they got their flowers and more.
Three more next time (actually).
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#musiccuration #history #culture #learnsomething blackhistorymonth
