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Track Listings
| 1. Luanda-Lisboa |
| 2. Sound Of Kuduro |
| 3. Aqui Para Voces |
| 4. Kalemba (Wegue - Wegue) |
| 5. Kurum |
| 6. IC19 |
| 7. Tiroza |
| 8. General |
| 9. Yah! |
| 10. Skank & Move |
| 11. D...D...D...D...Jay |
| 12. New Africas Pt 1 |
| 13. New Africas Pt 2 |
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BURAKA SOM SISTEMA Black Diamond (2008 UK 13-track CD album the second from the Portuguese electronic/dance duo includes the singles Sound Of Kuduro Kalemba [Wegue Wegue] and Aqui Para Voces sealed picture sleeve with card slipcase)
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Emanating out of Angola, Buraka Som Sistema's Black Diamond represents a unique blend of dark phat basslines, hard synthesised beats and African and latin percussion with techno and house references thrown in. It adds up to a listening experience that is occasionally challenging but extremely rewarding if you happen to be a world music technophile.
Black Diamond is undoubtedly ghettotech in origin - dance music evolved from advent of cheap electronic synthesisers and samplers reaching disenfranchised masses - as in the recent transformation by favela soundsystems of Brazilian funk, with which this shares much in common. The end result is akin to a speeded up form of dubstep enlived with percussion, portuguese rapping and vocals, and excellent use of dirty synth lines/samples, culminating in some awesome tracks: Acqui Para Voces and Yah would enhance any DJ set regardless of the country.
Definitely not for traditionalists or the faint hearted. If you're inclined towards a bit of musical adventure and are curious about the sound of now in Luanda, be prepared to have any preconceptions of African music solely comprising of talking drums and lilting guitars firmly blown out of the water. Heartily recommended.
Black Diamond is undoubtedly ghettotech in origin - dance music evolved from advent of cheap electronic synthesisers and samplers reaching disenfranchised masses - as in the recent transformation by favela soundsystems of Brazilian funk, with which this shares much in common. The end result is akin to a speeded up form of dubstep enlived with percussion, portuguese rapping and vocals, and excellent use of dirty synth lines/samples, culminating in some awesome tracks: Acqui Para Voces and Yah would enhance any DJ set regardless of the country.
Definitely not for traditionalists or the faint hearted. If you're inclined towards a bit of musical adventure and are curious about the sound of now in Luanda, be prepared to have any preconceptions of African music solely comprising of talking drums and lilting guitars firmly blown out of the water. Heartily recommended.
2 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
apart from the main well reknowned international success titles ,it is a bit boring.Not bad as alternative music though.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Music to Mend the Past(?)
14 May 2009
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Buraka Som Sistema are a rag tag team that put together an excellently thumping album that has a streamlined semi-theme to it. It's genre is kuduro; although it could easily pass with great acclaim and pride to be the fantastic melding of latin-esque style, hip-hop & 'drum & bass's dependence on strong bass rythyms, and the sampling & variations with electronica-like approach. The thematic gist of 'Black Diamond' seems to be on the verge of attempting to say something able to be interpreted as socio-political speech. From the obvious that the members are a Portuguese-Angolan identifying piece, to the tracks 'Africas Pt. 1' & '2', they infuse the convergence of cultures to create a sound quantifiably not new to the ear, but distinctly original in it's own product. This may, one might say, mirror the developing socio-political changes that are presently occurring in Angola (Africa symbollically as a whole) and Portugal (the E.U., really) as presented in the language and the topics briefly mentioned throughout different tracks & in the short title itself. Obviously the past of these two countries and continents is not positive, but at present, with the changes and developments in both that we may or may not be aware of, there is an interaction & even potential sense of interdependence that is the elusive message behind the simple content of 'Black Diamond'. Buraka Som Sistema may be surmised as saying: while past is prologue, the present is - as these artists have created through their music - what we make to be the future. That, or I've read too deep into it. Either way, it's a superb album for people who enjoy hip-hop, techno or electronica, and/or reggaeton/latin-influenced pop.
Good sound but same beat.
13 Feb 2012
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Well. The first time i'm listen Buraka, was in a video game. The Kalemba song like me so much. I must to say than the box is very original, because is an skencil to do graffiti by your self. The album is a very good material to dance or mix. I prefer hear from track number 2 to 6, because have continuity, and the MC's are so creative. I'm don't recommend hear the entire album if you are not dancing, because all the disk have the same beat. Regards.
Great mix of African and electronic music
2 Jan 2012
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Although I'm not new to African music (in a broad sense) I'm new at Kuduro, this is the first kuduro CD I'd bought. I totally loved it, it's very catchy, has a lot of energy and I love the African influence. I hope Amazon expands its catalog of Kuduro bands, such as Os Lambas or Dog Murras.
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