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Symphony Megamix - Shisotex [FUNKOTMEN]

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Mute City New 2011 - Shisotex [We Bros. X]

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shisotex Famikot Hyper Bonus Single 3

some that Chinese New Year funkot (that you might recognize) with probably the best downbeat ever. imlek! house! party!

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shisotex Cintailah Aku Sepenuh Hati 2013

Talking About Funkot, Part 2 (of one more part maybe i think? maybe not but don't worry I'll post other stuff on this tumbl aside from funkot but still funkot is amazing okay? thanks).

on the flipside of things, we go from all-out fun to drama. really fun drama, but like, also, cry-to-this, first-time-i-heard-this(which was just now, actually)-i-played-it-six-times-in-a-row drama. epic cathedral, final fantasy drama. shiso takes a typically goopy indo pop ballad, surrounds it in epic synths, plays the vocals out for just a minute and a half, and lets the melodies and atmospherics take it from there, amplifying the vocals' effect despite their absence. funkot's often immediate, but this tune unfurls in a structure more akin to trance, but much more addictive (and not prone to being waaaay too self-serious). this thing is like fifteen thousand stadiums blasting epic, put-your-fucking-hands-in-the-air trance stacked on top of each other, mixed with a few thousand more stadiums blasting thousands of 90s anime soundtracks at the same time. glistening zones with people. that was a hell of a mixed metaphor.

usually funkot makes you just dance, no matter where you are, but i was taken aback by this song's beauty. it's staggering. then you start dancing. it's the new style, get with it.

i should get around to writing a bit more at length about why funkot is so awesome—the problem is, there's almost nothing about it online in english (one / two / three). DUGEM BAYANGAN DJ Soloist runs a great blog that is full of updates and info on the sound's Indonesian and Japanese incarnations, its history, its structure and components, as well as issues of taste and the Indonesian funkot economy, but unfortunately it's all in Japanese, and google translate only does so much. Jockie "Masta Bass" Suama has a blog that touches on the same things, as well as a virtual how-to on making funkot, but it's also in Japanese. There might be people I could hit up to assist, but we'll see. Further investigation is necessary. *noir narrator voice*

(it's also worth noting that funkot needs no justification—no music does, but anything non-western and "odd" is often seen to be in need of justification to make it more palatable to western tastes. but anyway, i'm interested in exploring the history and structure of the sound, and its contexts and the issues surrounding it, not in speaking for its consumers and listeners and "analyzing" it to make it "worthy". talk over.)

whew.

this song is great. i love music.

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shisotex 1120 2010 [2013 RE:]

if you've followed me on twitter for even the slightest amount of time you probably know how obsessed i am with funkot (neé funky kota)—180-minimum BPM (usually faster) funky-breakbeat-trance-house with fifty thousand things happening at once, first from Indonesia and then exported to Japan and soon to take over the world. it's hopelessly intense, super-melodic, beautiful and fun as hell.

this track from j-kota god shisotex takes the fun quotient up exponentially. there's no drama here, just pure joy and absolute weirdness—odd pitch-bent synth melodies, pianos, samples of DMX telling you to get it on the fucking floor, garage-house-esque choruses espousing the gospel of the funky beat, all propelled at three beats per second. an absolute blast, straight to the jugular.

WHOOMP THERE IT IS, MOTHERFUCKER.

(the best funkot drop, ever.)

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