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Laboratorio is a Brazilian micro‑scene within contemporary hip hop that coalesced around artist‑run collectives and label ecosystems (most visibly Laboratório Fantasma). It blends boom‑bap and modern trap sensibilities with MPB, samba, and neo‑soul harmony, placing lyricism and social commentary at the core. The sound is defined by sample‑friendly, groove‑rich beats, live percussion drawn from Afro‑Brazilian traditions, and melodic hooks that often nod to MPB and samba‑soul. Artists use Portuguese lyricism to address race, class, identity, and everyday life, pairing incisive bars with warm, humanized production and frequent collaborations across rap, R&B, and pop.

Electroacoustic composition is a branch of art music that uses microphones, tape, analog and digital synthesis, and studio processing to create works in which timbre, texture, space, and transformation are primary musical parameters. Emerging from the post‑war laboratory and broadcast studio, it brings together recorded real‑world sounds (musique concrète), purely electronic tones (elektronische Musik), and later computer processing. Works may be fixed‑media pieces diffused over multi‑speaker systems, or live‑electronics that transform acoustic sources in real time. Rather than traditional melody and harmony, form is often built from sound objects, spectral evolution, gesture, and spatial motion.