Does anyone collect this style of music? I like the music, but its very hard to find the instrumentals, mostly what i find is a bunch of portuguese rapping over the tracks. many times i wish i could get the "dub" version of some of the more popular tracks.

education: kuduro is an afro-rave-techno style born from south portugal and angola africa. its a 140bpm madness of western/european clash with traditional african rhythms. MIA has taken interest in it and she is doing this style of tracks with diplo now.



this is one of the few instrumentals i could find (buraka is playing coachella this year)


thanks,

Last edited by stevësto on Mar-26-2009 at 17:38

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.

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Originally posted by Adam420 Angola is not just across the water from Portugal.

i know i corrected my post i thought it was then i looked it up but you replied already. i blame my country's education system ...

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Originally posted by stevësto MIA has taken interest in it and she is doing this style of tracks with diplo now.

that would be the gentrified version of it.

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Originally posted by distant that would be the gentrified version of it.

ahh so glad someone has some knowledge on this style. if you're referring to MIA's appearance in this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsgO0rNiyXw

then i dont see the gentrification or watering down for middle class/affluent people, because theres plenty of other kuduro tracks where they say "this is kuduro!" and cheesiness like that, at least the one with MIA still has a hard edge sound to it. so if that's watered down, can you point me to the "real ish"?

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Originally posted by stevësto i know i corrected my post i thought it was then i looked it up but you replied already. i blame my country's education system ...

It is not just across the water, but Angola was portuguese till the 70ies, and lately, after the independence a lot of people from ex-portuguese african countries have come to portugal... That's the reason why the style is from angola in its most natural form, but the mashup with electronic music has been done by portuguese.

I'm not in the genre... but I kind of dig bands like Buraka Som Sistema, which has been turing the US, it seams...

that amputee is badass

lulz