great stuff, i just don't get the shirt & tie get up, why?
it seems the dress code of former colonies often allow women to retain all the colorful sensuality of traditional fashion yet the men usually conform to modern western styles. i'm sure there are a few cultural anthropology research papers out there on the subject...
i suppose i'm the only one who thinks some of this sounds a bit like dubstep. for one thing the BPM is totally spot on. FUSION 2 will surely include some morlam, and dreaming of traveling to those parts to work with local musicians...
my Thai friend says this is the music people from the country side prefer, while the big city folk are listening to Rihanna and Kanye. and there is a street culture, in poor parts of town they just set up stages anywhere, and people come and dance all night. like this:
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and here are a couple examples of modernized pop morlam:
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probably unlikely that any kind of "electro-morlam" will enter the hipster consciousness in the west the same way that Cumbia did (or is beginning to). for i suppose arbitrary historical reasons which lead to americans and europeans becoming more accustomed to the latin palette rather than south east asian...