SLOW MO by Don Paula
SLOW MO by Don Paula
Podcast name: SLOW MO
Host: Don Paula
Genres: Electrónica / Downtempo / Indie Rock / Post Punk / Synthwave
Sunday 4PM CL
SLOW MO is slow, mellow, time freezes, you let go off the camera of your eyes – or your character – and contemplate the general splendor – ¡Huh! – : all those beautiful people dancing, the feeling of your body melting on the grill of those strange inter-dimensional melodies and the lighter-fluid of the happy substances that kindle the flame of the night. SLOW MO is warm, sensual and full of detail, and a bit androginous (¡Or gynandrous!): always shifting, oscillating between opposites to campture the attention span of information-saturated Millenials, at a the slow, gentle strut of 100 to 115 BPM, distinguishing itself from the frantinc background noise of our age. Get bare of your smartphone, of your work, of politics and your sleeping schedule (if we can call it that) and take a relaxing sound shower with this exclusive fragance created by the exquisite Don Paula.
This show’s was designed for those who seek the tamer sounds of Electronica, Downtempo and Chillwave, the exotic hybrids of the electro-somethings, post-somethings and the new-somethings as well as more contrasting genres overlapped with the dance category or just outside it’s boundaries like Synthpop and Indie Rock: a seasoning that our host describes as “darksy-sabrosón” (ven: “good to taste” but also seductive and bodacious).
Don Paula is the definitely anti-hegemonic alias of our dear Paula Isamit Morales, who started on the path of selecting and mixing tunes around 2015ish, taking a leap from a more performatic and instrumental genre palette (like Indie Rock and New Wave) to Electronica and Dance music, which at the time was more of an acquired taste for her. Little by little she put together a repertoire that allowed her to come and go between these two musical plexi, which at first seemed to be separate, with very likeable results (although with a tilt towards the electronic and danceable pieces, given their adaptability to interchanging BPM as well as fade-ins and fade-outs). Besides this very defining hobby, she regards her transit from Venezuela to Chile (being from a Chilean family and spending a good part of her childhood in Caracas) as an influence in the way she relates to music, the genres to which she was exposed to and the way she percieves the sensibilities of each country’s audience.
If you wanna enjoy the velvety and tremor-inducing sounds of the periphery, taking a few steps from the mainstream, tune in to Slow Mo on Sundays at 4p.m. of Santiago de Chile’s local time right here on WIDE Radio.
