Here's your latest dose of afrohouse fire, delivered by Seres Produções label boss, producer and DJ Satelite. Did you...
DJ Satelite – Luanda No Horizonte Vol. 12
Here is the latest installment in the Luanda No Horizonte serie (Vol 1., 2., 3. & 11.), more Angolan fire from Dj...
DJ Satelite – Luanda No Horizonte Vol. 11
It's been a few years since the first three installments of DJ Satelite's Luanda No Horizonte series (Vol. 1, 2 &...
Tchobari Is Group of the Year in Angola
We were so excited to see Tchobari win group of the year at the Angola Music Awards. There is so much good music among...
Delany Duvall: Light Work EP (free!)
Delany Duvall is an Angolan cat I've been following for a minute. He caught my attention a year ago with his cover of...
DJ Satelite: Luanda No Horizonte – Afrohouse from Angola
DJ Satelite is one of the most talented and inspiring artists I met on my recent trip to Luanda. So much so that I...
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...
Cabo Snoop Update: Dançéé, Ghana, Puto Cossa
What can we say... Cabo Snoop's stuff is catchy. And now he flirts with Congolese and Ivorian styles, bam! Another fun...
Spreading Mamã Africana: take this instrumental!!
Batida and Akwaaba invite you to take this beat further, sticking to the original concept: the song Lá Vai María is...
Novidades de Angola
In no particular order, and to help you enjoy your week end, current favorites from the land of Mwangolé:
Angolan Semba vs Brazilian Samba
Hey African music fans! My name is Catherine Barnes, and I'll be contributing a series of articles to this blog on...
Fashion Designers in Angola
Luanda's emerging bourgeoisie is getting served by a young generation of designers... read on here. The photo reminds...
Killamu – A Minha Face
Killamu is one of the most respected kuduro beat makers in Angola. He has been part of the kuduro scene for ten years...
Killamu: 10 years of kuduro in Angola
Akwaaba meets Killamu in front of his home and studio in Luanda, Angola. Killamu's been making kuduro beats for close...
Galliano & kuduro
Awesome, AWESOME mix of early (earlier?) kuduro, by Galliano, the first western dood we knew to push kuduro back in...
Sebem interviews Os Mais Potentes
11/22 FR: Akwaaba on radio nova
Bintou Simporé is following up with Akwaaba's founder Benjamin Lebrave, after a first interview in december 2008,...
11/11 Indepêndencia de Angola
In 1975, Angola became independent from Portugal, months after the fall of Salazar's Estado Novo. Rather than repeat...
01/12 WW: Killamu full length
Stay tuned... the Rangel beatmaker returns early 2010 with his bangin' album A Minha Face... sneak peak coming soon!!
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10/23 NL: BBRAVE @ Bomb Diggy (Amsterdam)
From our friends at Bomb Diggy's website: By far the baddest, biggest edition of Bomb Diggy will be the Amsterdam...
11/07 UK: BBRAVE @ Future World Funk (London)
Russ Jones and DJ Cliffy are having BBRAVE share the decks with them at their Saturday party Future World Funk, at the...
10/17 DE: BBRAVE w/ Sick Girls @ Picknick (Berlin)
Johanna of Sick Girls dug Akwaaba Sem Transporte so much that she decided to invite BBRAVE to share the decks at...
Super Akwaaba Maquis Mobile
In honor of all the maquis, chop bars and other bass pounding watering holes encountered on his journeys to Africa,...
Afropop likes Carlos Lamartine & semba!
Banning Eyre of Afropop wrote up a very, very instructive piece on Carlos Lamartine's album Histórias da Casa Velha,...
Generation Bass vs Akwaaba
DJ UMB of Generation Bass takes the wheels and compresses our kuduro comp Akwaaba Sem Transporte into a 30 minute get...