Akwaaba meets Killamu in front of his home and studio in Luanda, Angola. Killamu’s been making kuduro beats for close to a decade, and explains the stories and realities of kuduro in Angola today. We highly recommend you watch the video in HD on Vimeo!

Enjoy the tease, Killamu’s full length album comes out January 12, 2010. If you haven’t already, go download Killamu’s song Flaminguinho right here for free.

Awesome, AWESOME mix of early (earlier?) kuduro, by Galliano, the first western dood we knew to push kuduro back in 2005 – 2006. If you read French, this interview is very interesting, it’s nice to see someone speak openly, even if it might piss people off. And it will ;p

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Galliano with Tony Amado, grandfather of kuduro:

And here’s the video that made us fall in love with kuduro:

Bintou Simporé is following up with Akwaaba’s founder Benjamin Lebrave, after a first interview in december 2008, right after the launch of our first release.

Bintou is the historic “sono mondiale” pusher, big supporter of a wide range of sounds from Africa – her show Néo Géo’s been on the air since 1992!! Learn about Bintou – and practice your French – here.

What? Where? When? 6pm Paris time (GMT + 1), 101.5FM in Paris, novaplanet.com for the rest of us.

In 1975, Angola became independent from Portugal, months after the fall of Salazar’s Estado Novo. Rather than repeat the story, read it in wikipedia. To celebrate Angola and its culture, Julia of Africa Kabisa on WMBR is having an Angolan music special on Sunday Nov 22, 4-6pm EST. Julia will interview Akwaaba founder Benjamin Lebrave between 5 and 6pm. Tune in at 88.1FM in the greater Boston area, or stream at wmbr.org, or get the direct stream link… here. Learn more about Africa Kabisa here.

Stay tuned… the Rangel beatmaker returns early 2010 with his bangin’ album A Minha Face… sneak peak coming soon!!

From our friends at Bomb Diggy’s website:

By far the baddest, biggest edition of Bomb Diggy will be the Amsterdam Dance Event Special!

a serious line-up will wreck the floor and smash a horny vibe in your face till 05:00 in the morning:

- yes.. a special set with the hottest baile funk tunes by European adopter Daniel Haaksman!
- the live deep and analog hiphoppedy global tech kicks of soundboy Filastine, together with MC Nova from Indonesia!
- BBRAVE from Akwaaba Music with the true African sounds, banging from calypso, hiplife, kuduro and back to Ghanian roots!
- Raving bassline and no-mercy bouncers from the one and only AC Slater!
- the brothers from Lisbon with their soca fueled bashment and kuduro influenced afro-electro: Octa Push!
- supported by the deep dubstep sounds from new kid on the block Tommy Tequila!
- and rounded off with the records of residents Mataklap, Makks & Ru-D

IF YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE HOUSE/TECHNO PARTYING AND SEEK OTHER SOUNDS ON THE AMSTERDAM DANCE EVENT FESTIVAL:
COME TO THE OT301 ‘CAUSE THAT’S WHERE THE TROPICAL BASS IS GONNA KICK!

stay tuned if you want to win tickets for this night!
NO PRE-SALE!!!! SO DON’T BE TOO LATE!!!!

bye friends!
Bomb Diggy crew

Russ Jones and DJ Cliffy are having BBRAVE share the decks with them at their Saturday party Future World Funk, at the Notting Hill Arts Club. Tell your peeps, these guys play some serious, serious stuff, just have a quick listen at their respective myspace pages and enyoy, very nice cumbia, 70s Brazilian funk, and of course a dash of soukous and highlife with BBRAVE in there…