Jo Dark Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 Excuse me if I'm years late. Also, I put this in Whatever as this music couldn't fit into one of the genre rooms So it's nice to see Lisbon's Buraka Som Sistema turning the tables and taking kuduro music, popular in their city, and combining it with western dance music. On their debut album, Black Diamond, you can hear influences from dubstep, hip-hop, electro, grime, techno and even, ironically, fidget house.Kuduro, which translates as "hard ass", began in Luanda, Angola in the late 80s. Initially, producers sampled traditional carnival music like zouk and soca from the Caribbean and semba from Angola and laid this around a fast 4/4 beat. Soon after its commencement, the genre was imported to the suburbs of Lisbon via African immigrants. The scene in Lisbon is probably now more thriving than in kuduro's birthplace.One of the genre's best known modern day producers is Luanda's DJ Znobia, who would have featured on MIA's recent album, Kala, but for a motorcycle accident which left him out of action for a while.MIA's take on kuduro is a little different from the history books. In an interview with Rolling Stone this year she said: "[Kuduro] initially came from kids not having anything to make music on other than cellphones, using samples they'd get from their PCs and mobiles' sound buttons. Now that it's growing, they've got proper PCs to make music on."...Luckily, MIA's kuduro dream did come true earlier this year when she featured alongside Znobia on Sound of Kuduro Sound of Kuduro, the standout track on Buraka Som Sistema's debut album.When I interviewed Buraka Som Sistema's Lil John last year he told me that kuduro producers initially set out to make techno and electro but ended up with this new genre instead.Listening to tracks like YAH! it's clear that the quartet's "progressive kuduro" sound is sometimes so close to techno and other Western genres that it can become almost indistinguishable. In that respect, Buraka Som Sistema has succeeded where their kuduro forefathers failed. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/...andheard.kuduroA couple of videos name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>"> name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"> name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>"> name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350">Same song but megamix VersionI like it. It could mix with loads of different types of music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Planet Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 No man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynamau5 Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 beats uk urban house. its bouncy as fuk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReZiW Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 Feeling dis, recommendations Angolan women>>>> jheeez, if you don't know your slipping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axiom Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 lol sounds aightthe girl in the pink hoody in the second vid freaked me out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Somalian Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 afrika (a.k.a the savage land)>>>the world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Facilitator Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 Noise Won't Stop (Buraka Som Sistema Remix)>>>>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Facilitator Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 lol sounds aightthe girl in the pink hoody in the second vid freaked me out.lmao truss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djbmc Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 the second one was a bit more laid back than the first, not bad. well produced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ella Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 ah, so it's called kuduro, thanks for posting. I like the count & sinden rmx to "Yah!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest28 Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 i like it stillbut ain't this kinda the same as funky house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo Dark Posted October 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 lol sounds aightthe girl in the pink hoody in the second vid freaked me out.lmao truss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChickenCottage Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Old.Anyone who knows will know its all about kwaito now.TTKK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandnew Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Old.Anyone who knows will know its all about kwaito now.TTKKlol u dnt know...kwaito peaked ages ago...u.k is just late...also house has been huge there for donkeys...any decent house dj has a second home in S.A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChickenCottage Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Old.Anyone who knows will know its all about kwaito now.TTKKlol u dnt know...kwaito peaked ages ago...u.k is just late...also house has been huge there for donkeys...any decent house dj has a second home in S.ATownship Funk would now get more reloads than when it first came out.AND YOU KNOW DIS MAAAYNE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reuben Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 used to have some music from burkina faso that sounds similar to this good stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big_barz Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 BSS has been hard for time, and is now having its peak in world's shoreditch like places. mixed feelings about the latter tbh.only just recently heard that its called kuduro, although no1 drops other names to check.....ive heard kwaito, made some riddims, and that put me off lol. comes like bassline/funky house/bmore/other strictly rave music, completely unable to listen for a longer while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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