Genres · Afro & Latin
Baile funk
Brazilian party music from Rio's favelas: booming drums and chant-along vocals.
- Tempo, BPM
- 125–135
- Where it started
- Rio de Janeiro, late 1980s
What it sounds like
Also called funk carioca. Booming, stripped-down drums, a lot of chopped samples and MCs chanting in Portuguese. Loud, cheeky and impossible to stand still to.
Hear it
MC Fioti, “Bum Bum Tam Tam”
A flute sample over a baile funk beat, and two billion views.
2017 · Posted by KondZilla · Open on YouTube
Listen for
- Big, booming kicks and a tamborzão drum pattern
- Chopped vocal samples and sirens
- MCs chanting short, shoutable lines
Go if
You want chaos, in the best way.
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DJs who play it
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