The guys from Outhere Records rescently sat down with Kalaf and Conductor from Buraka Som Sistema at a club in Munich. Topics:

“Kuduro, Angola, Lisbon and of course Buraka Som Sistema. We found out that Lugandan youth has a drinking problem and learnt that Burkas 3rd album will be on Balkan sound ; ) and Conductor sampling our urban Africa releases we gave him last time we met. So tune into the interview and get a basic crash course of kuduro by Kalaf and the Conductor”

News from Diplos “we sign all the top cats” Überlabel Mad Decent. After signing Buraka Som Systema, J-Wow aka Joao from Buraka gives his solo debut on the label: “O Dedo”.

Video is done by The Genie and made up by scenes of a german documentary on the Wodaabe people (Herdsmen Of The Sun) from southern Sahara.

J-Wows single comes as package with a dubstep remix by SBTRKT that you can pre listen here:

O DEDO – SBTRKT REMIX

…and a Bird Peterson electro house remix:

O DEDO – BIRD PETERSON REMIX

All three versions on trackitdown

Older solo stuff by J-WOW:

We got Klang, which means “sound”, if your german is whack:

J Wow – Klang

Than we got

“Off With Their Heads”

featuring Aloe Blacc.

The b-side of that single is “Too Late” Africa Hi-Tec, recorded at Red Bull music Academy Torornto:

Africa Hi-Tec – Too Late

Just got shown the Jamie Foxx sketch Buraka Som Sistema used on their latest mix. Not far to seek since Jamie even mentions Kuduro, would be a crime not to used it somewhere if you’re Buraka.

You can grab the mix here, it’s definitely worth your bandwidth: NEW BURAKA SOM SISTEMA! BLOOD DIAMOND MIXTAPE & LIL’JOHN FEAT ALOE BLACC – OFF WITH YA HEAD

I should have been to melt festival but damn wifey had the helicopter booked to get some groceries. life just aint fair. Anyways, i missed Buraka Som Sistema over there. Fortunately their new mix makes up for that. More or less. I got the link and one of the tracks in high quality for your funky ass.

01. Diamonds are Forever Intro
02. Dj Znobia feat Jaime Foxx- Africa
03. Buraka Som Sistema – Kalemba (wegue wegue) Afrikan Boy remix
04. Os Lambas – Sapo (BSS Edit)
05. Radioclit vs Guns’n’roses – Sweet Secousse of Mine (Bss edit)
06. The Kiss – Black Diamond
07. Tunes for Baby That Won’t Drive You Crazy – Black Diamond
08. Buraka Som Sistema – IC19 (Toy Selecta remix)
09. Buraka Som Sistema – Aqui Para Voces (FAVELA FUNK SAMBA edit)
10. Buraka Som Sistema – Wawaba (James Braun Copyflex remix)
11. Lykke Li – Dance Dance Dance (BSS Remix)
12. Dirty Tricks – Black Diamond
13. Rusko vs Puto Prata – Let’s Go (BSS Edit)
14. Buraka Som Sistema – R.I.A.D.
15. Lil’Joao feat Aloe Blacc – Off with ya head
16. Buraka Som Sistema – Gang Bang feat Blaya
17. David Zé – O Guerrilheiro
18. Johnny Clarke – Come Back To Me
19. Buraka Som Sistema – Sound of Kuduro (D1 remix)
20. Zomby feat Pongolove – Kuduro Rumours (BSS Edit)
21. Rusko – Cockney Thug (BSS Remix)
22. Paul Simon – Diamonds on the soles of her

Radioclit vs Guns’n’roses is pure porn. The Afrikan Boy version of Kalemba rocks too. And yes, I listened to more than the first tracks, hater!

The one got  for streaming is Off with ya head. Lil John did the beat a at Red Bull Music Academy‘s ‘A Class Of Its Own’ recording session in Cape Town in 2008. Who will be at the next academy in London btw? I will, helicopter’s booked.

Stones Throw‘s Aloe Blacc is doing the vocals. The full, untagged 320 version:

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Lil’John feat Aloe Blacc – Off with ya head

I got much more for you coming up, as soon as I managed to get a cloned version of myself I’ll post-bomb this net into pieces. Yey-Yah.

Ah yeah: we on Fairtilzer now. Check it out, enjoy the music and give the mixes some love!

Schakkerhart System on Fairtilzer

Radioclit did a Funana mix!  Since I spent the first part of the year in Cape Verde, that made my day. Second Radioclit post in a row I guess I owe them a beer for all that a sonic satisfaction.

Most people dont even know where Cape Verde is and now there music is poppin up. Why? Hm I guess Radioclit listened to some Buraka Som Sistema and checked the neighboring countries for something to redo theirselfes. What they did on their “Fu (Na Na Na) Mix” is actually the same Buraka Som Sistema did to Angolas Kuduro. You take the original music and mix it with fitting, high tech western music till it passes the bouncer. Since Lissabons Kuduro scene is made up of as many Cape Verdians as Angolans (the countrys are connected since they shared a colonial occupant), I guess theyd go bananas over some pimped out Funana too. The only western guys who did that before is Schlachthof Bronx from Munich far as I know.

Radioclit – Fu Na Na Na Mix

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Sabi Dimas – Xibioti e Sousa
Janka Nabay – Eh Congo (Radioclit Edit)
Uproot Andy – La Camisola
Raiss Di Funana – Nho Fifi
Naty Kid – Sereia
Pitbull feat Machem Montano & Lil Jon – Floor On Fire
Ricky T – Pressure Boom
Kidy – Apoia Tradisom (Radioclit Edit)
Skepta – Stageshow Rhythm
Ize – Tronku Di Mundo
Wiley – Sorry Sorry Pardon What (Radioclit Edit)
DJ Vielo – Decale Mon Afrique
DJ Gant Man – Boricua Juke
Maluca – El Tigeraso
Marius – Senhora De Luz
Tony Allen – Fuji Ouija (Diplo Remix)

I got wise to the mix by checking ghettobassquake.blogspot.com 

Thanks! He found it on corporatebloggin.com so they cool too.

Radioclit put some Pitbull & Lil Jon, Grime (Skepta & Wiley), Soca, Speed Merengue and whatever they felt was uptempo enough to the Funana tracks. It has the same effect as Buraka Som Sistema puttin some electro and dubstep to Kuduro in their production. It puts the pill in the cake. Talkin about pills: If you took an X pill the last month, the mix will bring it back.

 
Original Funana is based on two main instruments. The ferro, a metal stick with notches, scraped for the percussion and the accordion, called gaita. Drums and guitars get added. Its pretty monoton and repetitive what makes it hypnotising and right up my alley. I saw Ferro Gaita, one of the big bands, while I was in the city of Tarrafal and had a ball.

Ferro Gaita – É Si Própi

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It comes with some holiday pics if you dont mind. 

I guess thats due to the time I connect with it but I fuckin love that song. The melody makes me melancholic as fuck.

The Schlachthof Bronx track I was talkin about:

Schlachthof Bronx – Funana

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Even better than the traditional version is modern Funana. More base heavy and even faster. Listen to that on a pimped out share taxi speeding through serpentines, and you dont need no club no more.

An example I found on ghettobassquake.blogspot.com:

Duda-Dja Txiga Nha Bes

If youre looking for a news and elegant way of rubbing genitals against each other, learn to dance the Cabo Verde way.
I’m gettin itchy feed. And its not that I didnt change my tennis socks. Perhaps I should visit those palm trees again. Flights is cheap (check funana.de), the German summer sucks, so far, and Bundesliga is in its summer break. So what?

Here you have it, the first and very official Schakkerhart Mix!

Schakkerhart put together a lil best of from all the tracks we posted in 2009, most of it also mentioned in the column I wright over at Raveline magazine.

We start with DJ Class and Kanye West, give you Chesus & Rodski from Wales, Deichkind from Germany, Tittsworth, The Count & Sinden,.. and finish 26 minutes later with Buraka Som Sistema. Freeman is on the decks. Enjoy.

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Schakkerhart Mix Vol.1 (right button, free download)

Tracklist:

DJ Class feat. Kanye West – Im The Shit (Remix)

Oh Snap!! – Bill Cosby Sweater

Benga – 26 Basslines (Chesus and Rodski Remix)

Deichkind – Travelpussy

Crookers – What Up Y’all?

Sir Mix-A-Lot – Baby Got Back

Tittsworth – WTF (Nadastrom Remix Stretch Armstrong Edit)

LUCKY 13 – ACT YO AGE

The Count & Sinden – Hardcore Girls (JC Remix)

Boys Noize feat. I-robots – Frau

Aaron LaCrate feat. Mr. Vegas & Verb – Oh My Gosh

Tittsworth feat. Kid Sister & Paserock – WTF

Buraka Som Sistema feat. MIA and DJ Znobia – Sound of Kudora

kuduro is one hell of a musical style. african techno (ignorant description?^^) is killin it anyway. i just featured this one in raveline magazine:

got get Buraka Som Sistema – Black Diamond,

buraka som sistema are pretty much hyped by journalists at the moment. the genre, kuduro, is bouncin in lissabon and thats where buraka som sistema come from. still kuduro (“hard ass”) has its roots in angola (i read that, gotta be true). so the video location wasnt chosen out of cheapest-flight causes.
not hard to recognize that kuduro is not that different from other styles that developed in africa out of tapes tourists forgot in the early nineties.

another nice one from princes of kuduro out of angola:

this one is from cabo verde, where fu is livin, a brother from my my crew highlight, puttin in work for schakkerhart. the sound they pump over there is called batuko.

another one he showed me. this one is really huge in cabo verde. the title of the song means something like “put your hands on the ground”.

capo verde mom – poi mo na xiom

more techno rap mash ups following, i got a damn long “to-blog” list… what you say about those above??