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Manu Chao — “Clandestino” (KJs Remix)

Manu Chao

"Clandestino" (KJs Remix)

By Halley Bondy

August 3, 2011

It’s a well known fact that Manu Chao’s “Clandestino” is one of the most beautiful songs on the face of the earth. The heart-wrenching melody and Chao-ish acoustics still leave you breathless, even a decade after its release, and you know it.

That said, imagine if kuduro were thrown in the mix.

Kuduro is an Angolan genre with a stuttering, panicked beat. Manchester producer trio KJs — or Knob Jockeys — threw in dub wobbles and a kuduro beat at around 2:15. It swiftly becomes an entirely new, darker club track, but a very fun one. And an educational one, if you’re brushing up on either your marijuana law, Español, or west African music genres.

Manu Chao – Clandestino (KJs remix) by KJs

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