BeatNonStop A Weblog by Chris Macias Bee pop music critic Music geek (n. myü-zik 'gEk) 1: A person who proudly wore KISS commemorative pajamas in third grade. 2: A person who owns multiple copies of the same album, still buys vinyl and has a room dedicated to 2,000 or so CDs and records. 3. A person who wrote a five-part series about traveling with a local band in their stinky van - and loved every minute of it. 4: Chris Macias, the Bee's pop music critic, serving Sacramento's music scene since 1999.

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October 28, 2005

Funk phenomenon

Woo wee, I’m still feeling kind of bleary eyed after a trip to San Francisco on Thursday night. It was an evening of Brazilian baile funk at Rickshaw Stop, a club near SF’s Civic Center. Baile funk doesn’t get much play around these parts. For one, the lyrics are in Portuguese so it’s hard to know what the lyrics are. But booming bass is loved universally, and baile funk is the kind of get down and get low party music that’s designed for fun, sweaty times. DJ Marlboro from Brazil spun for most of the night, and Diplo from Philadelphia also manned the turntables with Miami bass and baile funk tracks. Now I’ve got something of a bass hangover, and my Kraftwerk t-shirt really needs to be washed. Can’t wait to do it again.

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