Posts Tagged cape verde
Lx Monkeys Beatz – Portugese Bass Music
May 12, 2013 by dj umb
Absolutely blown away by these dudes from Lisboa, Portugal and their variety of Afro-centric Bass music covering Batida, Afro House and so much more. This is exceptional and exciting stuff and Portugal is fast becoming one of Europe’s greatest hot spots for these kinds of sounds mainly influenced by the Immigrant communities who have settled [...]
Tags: africa, afro house, angola, batida, buraka som sistema, cape verde, Dj Nigga fox *Lx Monkeys*, portugal, portugese bass music
Exclusive interview with the man who created “Zouk Bass” : Deejay Kuimba
March 14, 2013 by dj umb
This is the man who is fast becoming a LEGEND for inventing a sound that has become known as Zouk Bass. Buraka Som Sistema did a dj set at the Boiler Room 7pm – 12am (GMT), Friday 15th February 2013 and MC Kalaf uttered those now near legendary words: “We gonna introduce you to something [...]
Tags: africa, angola, beats, buraka som sistema, cape verde, dancehall, Deejay Kuimba DZC, Dj 2Pekes, Dj Matabaya, DJ Sacaninha:, dj umb, dub, electro, generation bass, Generation Bass exclusive interview with deejay kuimba, global ghettotech volume 2, kizomba, kubass, kuduro, kuduro bass, mo tello, semba, tarrachinha, tarraxinha, Tarraxinha Parede Deejay Kuimba Yudifox Dizona Crew, tropical, zouk bass
FUNANA, KUDURO & KWAITO!
May 7, 2010 by dj umb
I went on a mini blog tour, which I haven’t done for some time, and picked up these very interesting things along my way from some of our good friends. FUNANA Here’s something I liberated fromthe fabulous Ghetto Bassquake including the whole text & image, what you would call a wholesale rip :-) In case [...]
Tags: angola, birdseeds tunedown, cape verde, funana, ghetto bassquake, kuduro, kwaito, kwaito.co.uk, mp3, south africa
MORE FUNANA
September 30, 2009 by dj umb
Here’s some more FUNANA cutz courtesy of Ferro Gaita, one of Cape Verde’s chief exponenets of the genre. Ferro Gaita is here to offer you the opposite: a party atmosphere, a danceable, frenetic beat, a shout against the daily struggle. For Funaná was the medium of choice to express disgust at colonial rule, and under [...]
Tags: accordion music, cape verde, ferro gaita, funana, mp3, rei di funana
EVERYBODY HAVIN' FUN-A-N-A
August 9, 2009 by dj umb
Following on from Dave’s recent posts on all things Funana, I picked up these vids from YOU TUBE courtesy of a great & intelligent blog I recently discovered called THE ELEPHANT’S CHILD. Check them out for yourself, some really great stuff. NB: Vid 2, Dave posted the track here a few weeks back.
Tags: accordion, africa, cape verde, funana, funana videos
Progressive Funana
August 8, 2009 by dj umb
Heavy H – Dodu Whats up bassheads, it’s Dave again with some more Funana. Now I don’t like to use the term progressive, and more specifically PROG as most Progressive Rock drives me up the wall with it’s wanky synths and goofy guitar heroics, this track has some pretty spacey synths. There is absolutely no [...]
Tags: cape verde, funana, kuduro, Synths
QUEEN OF MORNA: CESARIA EVORA!
July 24, 2009 by dj umb
I’m continuing my SPECIAL LADIES series and in keeping with the CAPE VERDEAN theme today started by Dave Quam, I give you CESARIA EVORA. As usual, I’m not going to go into great detail on her as though I’m some pretend ethnomusicologist, just google the name and info overload at your fingertips. I do want [...]
Tags: africa, angola remix, cape verde, carl craig, cesaria evora, morna, mp3, queen of morna
FERRO GAITA drops the FUNANA!
May 6, 2009 by generationbass
Great music from Cape Verde right here! Sounds almost like a live played KUDURO. Great dancing music! I found this on a blog, but cant find the source anymore, if it’s you, lemme know and I’ll add ya! FERRO GAITA – REI DI TABANKA
Tags: africa, beats, cape verde, funana, kuduro, live music, traditional, uptmpo
