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Gato Preto Cordially Invites You to the Global Bass Ball
Name: Gato Preto, Gata Misteriosa and Lee Bass
Where They’re From: Mozambique/Ghana/Portugal/Germany
When They Started: 2011
Sounds Like: Tropical bass smoothie...
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Stateless Bass: Four Hunks Of Global Dance Music In Transit
Global bass gets a little more global everyday. Kuduro, baile funk and cumbia may have originated in Angola, Brazil and Colombia respectively, but now you might hear...
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Tego Calderón: Rapper, Revolutionary, and Original Rooster?
In 2005, when reggaeton first came to a car stereo near you following the breakthrough success of Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina,” Tego Calderón was one of the first major...
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Brazil’s Leo Justi and the Art of Favela-izing
Name: Leo Justi
Where he's from: Rio de Janeiro
Genre: Brazil ghetto beats + electronic + hip-hop + moombahton + kuduro = Heavy baile
When he started:...
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Anbuley’s Oleee EP Out Today
Ghanaian-Austrian musical divinity Anbuley has released her Oleee EP today through Seayou and BIG'N'HAIRY records and it's packed with deadly glamor and reasons to...
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Batida: 808s and Guitar-Breaks
Name: Batida
Where He’s From: Lisbon, Portugal via Luanda, Angola
Genre: Kuduro (Redux)
When He Started: 2007
Most Similar: Baloji, Buraka Som Sistema
The...
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Xenomania: Nothing is Foreign in an Internet Age
Words by Simon Reynolds
Imagine the media as a hydraulic system: broadband has dramatically expanded the pipes and channels through which cultural data, including...
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Komba by Buraka Som Sistema
If we ever doubted Portugal’s electro-dance crew Buraka Som Sistema could find a way to turn a funeral into a party then consider that question…well…laid to rest. Their...
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Kuduro Masters Buraka Som Sistema Stream 2nd Single, Tour Americas
Hot on the heels of releasing an EP of debut single "Hangover (Bababa)" remixes just yesterday, Buraka Som Sistema has started streaming a second cut from their...
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Angolan Kuduro Superstar Costuleta Fires Away At Pretenders
Costuleta, in the music videos that made him famous, begins by gyrating on crutches (he lost his leg as a child) while rapping, surrounded by beautiful dancing women and...
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Manu Chao — “Clandestino” (KJs Remix)
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...
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Download Batida’s Mamã Africana EP This Week!
DJ Mpula, of Portuguese kuduro sound system Batida and host of the Radio Fazuma show, has released his three song Mamã Africana EP for free download at Akwaaba Music's...