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live performance recorded @ sonotheque, chicago – april 2009
hailing from lisbon, portugal, buraka som sistema are the leading lights of the city’s kuduro scene. imported from the former portuguese colony of angola, kuduro was born of the long standing african penchant for caribbean dance music and the late 1980s introduction of american/european electronic music. combining calypso, soca, house and techno with local kilapanga and semba music, angolan dj/producers teamed up with portuguese-speaking mcs-toasting, jamaican dancehall style-to create a popular sound that followed lusophone immigrants to lisbon. in 2006, lisbon producers lil john, riot, conductor (originally from angola) and mc kalaf formed buraka som sistema, to update kuduro with further infusions of house, rave, baile funk, dubstep and grime. with the support of mia and london’s fabric-the first “original” release from the nightclubs in-house label-2008’s “blood diamond” full-length found worldwide acclaim for it’s hard-hitting, bass-heavy dancefloor appeal. but however you want to parse it’s complex development, the result is party music, plain and simple. special thanks to jessica from spectre.