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Faustino co-founded and co-hosted a nightclub in Los Angeles named Balistyx, which is the same name as his rap album. [2] The club was "the first hip-hop/funk club on the Sunset Strip," and was originally held on Thursday nights at the Whisky a Go Go in 1991.
The album features productions of Kid Chris and Planet Funk Crew. The dance mixes tracks on Dance Vault Remixes: Get It Off/Knock Knock saw minor success with just being an internet release. The album was to promoted the single and promoted by the Knock Knock/Get It Off- DVD Single. [3]
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.
Instant Funk: March 24 "We Are Family"/ "He's the Greatest Dancer"/ "Lost in Music" Sister Sledge: March 31 April 7 "Dancer"/ "Dance to Dance" Gino Soccio: April 14 April 21 April 28 May 5 May 12 May 19 "Ring My Bell" Anita Ward: May 26 Bad Girls (all cuts) [1] Donna Summer: June 2 June 9 June 16 June 23 June 30 July 7 July 14 "Born to Be Alive ...
Funk carioca (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfɐ̃k(i) kɐɾiˈɔkɐ,-kaɾ-]), also known as favela funk, in other parts of the world as baile funk and Brazilian funk, or even simply funk, is a Brazilian hip hop-influenced music genre from Rio de Janeiro, taking influences from musical styles such as Miami bass and freestyle.
This includes artists who have either been very important to the funk genre or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such as in the case of one who has been on a major label). Bands are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"), and individuals are listed by last name.
This album was notable for being the first on which Hayes moved on from funk to embrace the then-fashionable disco sound. Hayes' original version remained a club favourite for many years and was often played at the Warehouse, the influential Chicago nightclub which was the focus of the house music scene in the early 1980s.
DJ Marlboro's Portuguese rapping in his 1989 LP “Funk Brazil” helped introduce Portuguese music into these bailes, where the heavy bass sounds became a platform for this new sound. [3] As a result, by the mid-1990s most of the music played by funk DJs was produced in Brazil. [4] Currently, DJ Marlboro is the resident DJ at São Paulo's Lov ...