There are two karaokecrime events coming up this week.
karaoke-in-a-library@ the Olneyville Library in Providence, RI Wednesday the 1 from 5:00pm to 7:30pm
karaokecrime megamix blastoff@ The Firehouse Eastern Ave, WorcesterSaturday July 4 (USA!) after all the other bands
Hope to see you there. The thing on Saturday will be mindblowing. And the thing on Wednesday will be karaoke in a library! Sssh!
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I’m working on putting together a tour for this summer. June, July, August. Anywhere east of Chicago including Canada.
I’ve played small house shows, electronic indy-pop shows in coffee shops, packed club nights, big providence loft parties, and the opening of a clothing store in Sao Paulo Brazil. So it’s really flexible and always fun and screamy/dancey.
I’ll have a backpack and laptop. I travel light and sleep best in hammocks. If you know a band, a scene, a house, a city, a club night, or a party I should know about, let me know.
kj at karaokecrime dot com
It’s dark, it’s 3am on Friday night. Picture me being smooshed into that monitor by a roaring brazilian mass.
From a karookecrime set at Neu in São Paulo, Brazil. Thanks Dago Donato and Quinn for setting this up! Dago was afraid everybody would be “too cool” but he believed in me, and everybody got stupid! My friend Paula almost got into a physical fight for the microphone!
I met this Canadian lady Quinn, and her friend Dago (above) got me a Karaokecrime set at his Friday night party in one of the funnest São Paulo clubs: Neu.
The place is a big house, on a street next to a park where all the houses were rented as offices, so they can make tons of noise at night. The place was pretty packed when I went on. Coincidentally a band from Boston who knew my ex-Garrison friends was playing that night. That was pretty nuts.
I didn’t use a projector, just my laptop and the big widescreen monitor I’d used for the Cachalote Party. The start was a little choppy, since the latency of the mics running through ableton was waayyy to high. But everybody was drunk and yelling enough not to notice. The highlight was either Umbrella or Kids / Stand by Me.
Somebody has videos of a million Brazilians smashing into me and singing along, but I’m still waiting on that. I hope they’re good!
Proud to announce KaraokeCrime #1: Brazilian Girls Sing Karaoke Hits.
Recordings from last month’s party in Sao Paolo. I find it surprisingly listenable, and completely awesome. Favorite track.
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Except for the obligatory Jamaican anti-gay lines at the beginning and the end, but then Lily made a version with those cut out. Minus the homophobia, it’s totally one of the prettiest love songs of the year. The whispered “Shh di climax begun…” verse is amazing.
Plus the song is in the middle of a controversy in Jamaica where all songs about sex or violence were just banned from Jamaican Radio (see “The Wickedest Slam”), so you gotta show your support.
And now for the challenge! I want to see a video of two people walking into a Karaoke bar and doing a Rampin Shop duet over the Miss Independent riddim. Most up-to-date karaoke places will have Miss Independent by now. Brazil doesn’t keep current with new American stuff, so I can’t do it here.
Here’s the karaoke track you’re most likely to encounter. Finish the intro quick so you start verse 1 right at Ooh there’s something about her. Later in the song there’s a long bridge you might need to work around so the chorus comes back in with the full, synth-heavy beat.
Just one more direction: sing it like you’re the bride and groom singing “I had the time of my life” at your wedding. Lots of eye contact, smiles, maybe even tears.
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My friends were opening a store. Karaoke instrumentals work great as ambient music, and being a DJ is much easier because without vocals and with a similar (and pleasantly generic) production style, songs fit together really easy.
Like, there are tons of songs a DJ could never play back to back, but it works fine with the karaoke versions. Then things got singy.
Those little rectangles in the bottom right are field recordings of Brazilian kids singing! Soon, soon!
