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?

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??