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    "id": 3612383,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612383/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-02-02T19:58:50-08:00",
    "show": 65825,
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    "song": "Bienaventurados los Pacificadores (NoOoOoOo)",
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    "artist": "PERRA BRAVA",
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    "comment": "The title alone signals the strategy: sanctimony flipped into a scream, beatitude turned into a glitching refusal. On “Bienaventurados los Pacificadores (NoOoOoOo),” PERRA BRAVA channel hardcore brevity into something theatrical and acidic. In 1:42, the duo compresses a full argument about “peace” as performance—how calls for calm can sound like control, how politeness can become a muzzle, and how dissent gets framed as the real violence. Fernanda Navarrete and Nestor Fajardo also handle the production, and the sound reflects that hands-on intent: blunt edges, tight punch, and a mix that keeps the vocals confrontational and close. The “NoOoOoOo” in the title isn’t a gimmick so much as a rhythm—an elastic, spiraling negation that the track keeps returning to, like a hook made of protest. Even if you don’t catch every word at first pass, the emotional message is unmistakable: a rejection of easy moral postures and a demand to name what’s really happening. It’s fast, loud, and deliberately uncomfortably catchy—music that refuses to soothe, because soothing is the point being criticized. Released on the Silabo Tatequeda EP in 2025, it functions like a manifesto fragment—one sharp page torn out and thrown at the room today.\u2028Listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/7mCno9JC0a1AkYyeEEUDcN",
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