Posts Tagged funana

FUNANA, KUDURO & KWAITO!

May 7, 2010 by

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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 [...]

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MORE FUNANA

September 30, 2009 by

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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 [...]

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EVERYBODY HAVIN' FUN-A-N-A

August 9, 2009 by

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.

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Progressive Funana

August 8, 2009 by

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 [...]

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Whats Up Generation Bass?

July 24, 2009 by

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 What it do? Dave Quam here from It’s After the End of the World.  Vince and UMB were kind enough to let me invade their great blog with some music, so I will be posting some of my favorite global bangers over here along with the rest of the hyper updated music on this site. [...]

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DANCING CHEETAH MIXTAPES 1 & 2!…CHIMP & TROPICALIENTE MIXES!

July 3, 2009 by

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Some great stuff here doing its rounds around the blog (block…haa.haaa) from DANCING CHEETAH. He throws in most of the sub-genres we all love on this blog, so a BIG UP MATE :-) TROPICALIENTE MIX CHIMP MIXTAPE 1 – Baile Parangolé – João Brasil 2 – Kini Soni – Ms Scandalous 3 – Thunderstruck (Crookers [...]

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ALL WE HEAR IS RADIO FUNANA!

June 22, 2009 by

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Just got this from our mates at GHETTO BASSQUAKE (such a cool name man) and it’s a mix by the brilliant RADIOCLIT, DAMN IT! Here’s what GHETTO BASSQUAKE say: “Cape Verde’s accordion hyperspeed Funana Island sickness has been getting a lot of airtime here. Regulars at Secousse will know its a big sound right now. [...]

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FERRO GAITA drops the FUNANA!

May 6, 2009 by

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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

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