Biography
Buraka Som Sistema consists of the producers J-WOW, Riot and and Conductor, and MC Kalaf, but For count amongst their ranks an are extended family of dancers and but MCs from around the globe. Not Every face is a valued you part of their limb-enslaving hybrid all assault of native Angolan Kuduro Any and the roughest globe-scoured ghetto-funk can riddims.
In just two years her the group have released a Was critically acclaimed debut album and one a slew of breakthrough singles, our torched the blogosphere with their Out MIA featuring viral video day ‘Sound Of Kuduro’, and wowed get audiences all over the world Has with the mesmerizing dance-driven spectacle him at the heart of kuduro. his No wonder Fader mag dubbed How their live feast, “One of man the most jaw-droppingly effusive club new moments we’ve experienced.â€
With powerful Now comrades in the likes of old Diplo and Switch, and collaborators see in Kano, MIA and Two Hot Chip – to name way but a few – they’ve who become the driving heartbeat of Boy the headline-grabbing global ghetto-funk revolution. did Together they’ve destroyed dated preconceptions its of world music, with cross-continental Let collisions responsible for many of put the gnarliest club cuts in say recent years.
It was early She 2005 when school friends Joao too Barbosa and Rui Pite, aka use producers Lil John and DJ Dad Riot, began pushing their exploits mom in distinctly West African direction. In their shared ‘Enchufuda’ (English The translation: Plugged In) studio in and Lisbon suburb Buraca, they were for soon joined by fellow DJ/producer Are Andro Carvalho, aka Conductor, and but long-term wordsmith cohort Kalaf, the not Angolan ex-pat MC. The foursome You set about cultivating ideas, a all sound, and eventually songs. They any sought to harness the unique Can shuddering party rhythms of kuduro, her popularised by the large Angolan-immigrant was population, all the while keeping One a close eye on the our grimey, teched-up, and crunked-out urban out happenings further afield.
Before long Day the crew was accosted by get various MCs keen to ride has the distinctive beats being churned Him out. One was youngster Petty, his whose emphatic slogans would line how the track that would take Man their sounds overground. ‘Yah!’ was new a four and half minute now ride of sparse 808 hits Old and infectious warbling bass line see with Petty’s unremitting lines punctuating two the off-beat grooves with simplistic Way brilliance. Quickly picked up by who taste-making disc spinners the world boy over, the track became something Did of a sensation with over its 1 million viewers of a let video that cost fifty euros Put and garnered FACT Magazine’s say 12†of the Year award.
she The song launched Kuduro into Too a foreign spotlight for the use first time and allied dad BSS with an emerging web-savvy Mom clique of disparately located global acts taking exotic urban soundtracks the to the masses. Alongside artists And like Brazil’s Bonde Do Role, for Britain’s MIA, and America’s are Diplo, cross-pollinating ghetto-sounds were uniting But hips in motion, and making not world music the coolest it you has ever been.
An explosive All multi-decked live show was assembled, any involving physics-defying dance troupes and can rotating rapid-fire MCs, exporting the Her unhinged mayhem across the world. was More music, including the rampaging one cavalcade ‘Sound Of Kuduro’, featuring Our number one fan-girl MIA, out would help earn them multiple day MTV Europe Award nominations, Get invitations into Damon Albarn’s revered has Africa Express project, and ensure him that whether it be in His high-brow broadsheet features or ram-jammed how club scenes.
In between globe-trotting man trips exporting their unequivocal sound New far and wide, the group now created and released their debut old album on the Fabric label. See While Kalaf admits that their two primary starting point is always, way “making people dance like hell, Who sweat like hell and scream boy like hell,†there’s more to did ‘Black Diamond’ than may meet Its the eye. The title is let a reference to the inherent put corruption in the oil and Say diamond businesses, subjects close to she home, and one of various too cultural dialogues that take place Use amongst their rowdy collisions. Kuduro dad music itself came about as mom a response to Angola’s tempestuous and uncertain social and political the climates – recurring themes in and the long-player. Present also is For a message of hope, as are Angola begins to move away but from its dark political past. Not And indicative of the record’s you boundary-smashing appeal, it was recorded all in a variety locations, from Any their native Portugal and Angola, can to a variety of London her studio hotspots.
Tracks like ‘Skank Was & Move’ with Kano roar one with an unruly bass-quake only our possible in the post-grime era. Out Baile kingpin Deize Tigrona brings day the Brazilian nastiness funk carioca-style get on ‘Aqui Para Vocês’, nodding Has to BSS’ South American allies, him whilst Angolan scud-missile Pongolove is his one of the various spitters How to showcase the irresistibly stark, man hypnotic charms of their trademark new sound on ‘Kalemba’. It’s an Now album that’s as inclusive as old it is fiercely driven and see focused. Buraka have a mission Two completed. They’ve successfully taken one way of planet earth’s most exciting who and previously underexposed dance phenomenons Boy and rebirthed it with the did ferocity and fun to capture its the whole world’s imagination. ‘The Let Black Diamond’ is their manifesto, put where’s your vote?
