Tagged: kuduro
Lungu Lungu: Fried Zambian Street Food
Ghana-based Benjamin Lebrave speaks fluent French and English, and can schmooze in Spanish and Portuguese. He’ll report on new African music every other week. This week, it’s Zambian group 2wo 1ne’s “Vitumbuwa.” Today we travel … read more »
Lungu Lungu: DJ Satelite’s Unifying Orbit
Photo, from left to right: DJ MJ, DJ Satelite, Killamu, and DJ Satelite’s brother. In past columns I’ve covered some recent trends within kuduro and house music in Angola, but today I want to give … read more »
Lungu Lungu: The Ghetto Shines on in Angola
A few months ago I asked if kuduro is dead. The question wasn’t all provocation: my recent trip to Luanda has shown me first hand how prevalent house music has become in Angola, in just … read more »
Lungu Lungu: Angola Strikes Again
I have the great pleasure of writing this column from Luanda, Angola. I was here for the first time three years ago and managed to share a small bit of kuduro on this same website. … read more »
Lungu Lungu: Siko on the Rise
A fee weeks ago I had the chance to meet a living encyclopedia, Florent Mazzolini, a French journalist who shies away from being called a musicologist, but who in fact is an inexhaustible source of … read more »
Lungu Lungu: Kuduro is Dead
It pains me to say it, but it appears kuduro is seriously fading out in Angola. It’s so hard to believe. I was there just two years ago, and kuduro was blasting out of every … read more »
Premiere: J-Wow’s FADER Mix MP3
As ever, we are talking about the fearless Buraka Som Sistema producer/DJ from Lisbon, not the excessively tanned Jerz chica now famous for being a prominent member of the leisure-class-with-a-hurricane-glass. Our J-Wow was here first! … read more »
Premiere: Buraka Som Sistema’s J-WOW & Toy Selectah, “Mo’chaxo” MP3
In yesterday’s Ghetto Palms column, Eddie Stats had a very interesting conversation with Ghetto Bassquake purveyors Vamanos and Chief Boima about the direction of tropical music—and what “tropical” even means. Said Vamanos: “To me, it’s … read more »
Ghetto Palms 106: More Mavado / Conceptual Kuduro / Exclusive Interview!
Once more into the breach between ethno and techno y’all. One of the biggest tracks from my last blend in this tempo was Nic Sarno’s “Mana Wasa” which is from Enchufada’s Hard Ass Sessions Vol. … read more »
DJ Zhao, Ngoma 6: Ukulwa Mixtape
Just in time for Youth Day, the June 16 holiday commemorating Soweto uprising against the apartheid regime, DJ Zhao has compiled an incredible mixtape of African and African-inspired dance music (including some of the self-same … read more »
