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Los Carlos Bombcast Tape for Bombdiggy

DJ Los Carlos has been doing his share to bring kuduro to the masses not only at home in the Netherlands, but worldwide thanks to his banging productions, including our own Elegom Bounsa and Tatali remixes. He incorporates both into this booming short tape, which we recommend you listen to every morning for the rest [...]

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Kuduro is Dead?!?!

(Originally published in the Lungu Lungu column for Fader magazine) It pains me to say it, but it appears kuduro is seriously fading out in Angola. It’s so hard to believe. I was there just two years ago, and kuduro was blasting out of every single candongueiro and radio station, all day long. But there [...]

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Kanye Meets Angola on the Dancefloor

Via Benjamin Lebrave‘s Lungu Lungu column over at Fader Mag: I’ve been neck deep into Angolan house. I recently discovered a never ending thread of good afro-house coming from Angola on Soundcloud. So I quickly put my rusty Portuguese to use and connected with a slew of cats making these beats. After a few weeks [...]

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Elegom Bounsa – Video by Angola’s Ho Chi Fu

Elegom Bounsa – Video by Angola’s Ho Chi Fu

Ho Chi Fu strikes again! If he is not yet a household name in your brain, then go check out his youtube channel NOW. He has established himself as the number one music video director in Angola, a country with a booming music scene, more and more cash, hence more and more good looking videos. [...]

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Pan African Music Stew mix for This Is Africa

Pan African Music Stew mix for This Is Africa

This here is a 2 hour roundup of some of our favorite sounds coming from Africa. With a definite emphasis on sounds to make your hips move, and also definitely not an exhaustive line-up of genres – we are heavily biased towards Ghana, Angola, the Congo Kinshasa and Ivory Coast… what can you do! BBRAVE [...]

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