"Originating in São Paulo, DJ K is one of the breakout stars of Baile do Helipa, the street party that takes place in the city’s biggest favela.

For all the pleasures of raving and booty-shaking, there’s a sense of lawlessness to baile funk, a scene that’s been strictly policed and criminalized, largely along racial lines. Along with Bruxaria Sound, the collective of adventurous DJs and bodacious MCs he enlists as his co-conspirators, DJ K deliberately taps into the paranoid feeling that the party could go wrong and get shut down at any moment, thwarting every expectation with impish glee.

DJ K taught himself to produce with Fruity Loops software, and his bold and cartoonish synth lines often sound like a hyper-charged blend of ringtone rap and acid house."

(from Nadine Smith's 7,9 review of "PANICO NO SUBMUNDO" for Pitchfork)
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