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DJ K

Clowns, exorcists and nuns, and a record framed as a pirate radio broadcast.

Source: thequietus.com
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DJ K makes bruxaria funk in São Paulo, releasing through Kampala's Nyege Nyege Tapes and his own Bruxaria Sound.

The Quietus on the debut: "the album cover's creepy imagery of Pennywise-like clowns mirrored by samples of distressing laughs clinically sprinkled over the tracks." Nyege Nyege's own copy places that in a lineage where São Paulo funk artists "would perform alongside dancers dressed as jokers, clowns, exorcists, nuns and other horror archetypes", so the imagery is inherited rather than invented.

Rádio Libertadora! (2025) is staged as a pirate broadcast, opening with a Carlos Marighella sample and an announcer declaring the liberating radio live.

We were living through literal panic back then. I wanted to describe that feeling in my music.

Artwork for Pânico no Submundo is credited to Bruxaria Sound; artwork for Rádio Libertadora! to Marc Armand. Quietus photography by Felipe Larozza.

We found no official 2025–26 video, and the cover description above is the writer's, not his.

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