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. 13
Busy times for DJ Satelite, squeezing in this mix before his imminent releases on Open Bar Music and the Djoon...
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 &...
Maskarado – Monami – acapella
We won't call this one a remix contest, instead we want to shift towards a permanent musical lab: we will regularly...
New Kuduro House: Maskarado – Monami
Maskarado is a familiar name for anybody paying attention to Angolan house and kuduro. He's the go-to MC for many 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...
Kuduro is Dead?!?!
(Originally published in the Lungu Lungu column for Fader magazine) It pains me...
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...
Saudades da terra do semba
Not sure who took this photo... but whoever took it did a great job. As we start 2010 we hope to get back to Luanda...
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...
Sebem interviews Os Mais Potentes
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!!
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...
Super Akwaaba Maquis Mobile
In honor of all the maquis, chop bars and other bass pounding watering holes encountered on his journeys to Africa,...
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...
Fazuma vs Akwaaba
Lisbon, Portugal's own DJ Mpula, host of the Radio Fazuma show, connects with the Akwaaba team to revisit the Angolan...
08/04 WW: Akwaaba Sem Transporte
At last... Akwaaba unleashes a wild collection of bangers from Luanda, Angola. Some of the big names are on there,...
08/04 WW: Ze Bula remix contest
Akwaaba Music, Mad Decent & Fairtilizer are happy to bring you the Ze Bula Remix Contest by Figura and DJ MJ, off...
Akwaaba Sem Transporte on Myspace
Everyone has their favorite site to listen to music and check out new artists... Myspace still deserves respect, so we...
08/18 WW: Carlos Lamartine
To balance out our kuduro release, Akwaaba Sem Transporte, here is a beautiful collection of Carlos Lamartine's...
08/12 LA: Akwaaba on Cosmic Barrio
Derek Rath, host of Cosmic Barrio every Sunday on KPFK, invites Akwaaba founder Benjamin Lebrave to talk about his...
Kuduro studios
Puto Mira (Vagabanda) at DJ Kobe's studio in Marçal Heroy (Vagabanda) at DJ Kobe's studio in Marçal DJ Stan & DJ...
Killamu, Rangel beat maker
DJ Killamu and Mestre Ara form Guetto Produções, a fully independent studio with some of the biggest names in kuduro....
Killamu – Não Maya
Back to Marçal, Chefe Kamone
On a kuduro map of Luanda, Marçal is unavoidable, and within Marçal, Kamone is a mainstay. We first met him at TV...