THANK YOU… WE’LL BE BACK!
Buraka Som Sistema posted this video on their youtube channel as a “thank you” note to all who came to see them live. And we thank them for sharing this footage with us…
However we know that very soon we may have fresh news from the boys. Keep this link… you will need it:
www.ustream.tv/channel/buraka-tv
WE CURATED A STAGE AT OPTIMUS ALIVE’10 FEST AND WE SURVIVED IT…
After the party, now the pictures!! We wanna thank Benga, Sinden, Laidback Luke, Zombies for Money, PAUS (oh God what a show!!!!), Macacos do Chinês, Buraka DJ’s, Octa Push and Diamond Bass for throwing this party with us. We love you all!!!!
ENCHUFADA SHOWCASE @ OPTIMUS ALIVE’10
ENCHUFADA MERCH WITHOUT SHIPPING COSTS UNTIL SATURDAY
This is what you can buy without shipping costs until July 31 at MONTANA SHOP, Bairro Alto in Lisbon.
Plus there’s a photo exhibit with pictures by Ana Gilbert that portrait Buraka Som Sistema’s incredible journey in the last couple of years.
CD’s
VYNIL
TEE-SHIRTS
ENCHUFADA TAKES OVER OPTIMUS CLUBBING SATGE AT OPTIMUS ALIVE FESTIVAL ON JULY 9TH
We’ll be showcasing our own artists as well as inviting our talented friends on this huge music celebration. If you know Enchufada, some of them, like the super fresh and exciting PAUS, the always surprising Macacos do Chinês and the group responsible for all this, Buraka dj’s, need no introduction. However, take some time to get to know everyone else and get as excited about this as we are.
ENCHUFADA POP-UP SHOP
For one day, and one day only, all shipping costs are banned from our shop!
From 14:30 till 03:00 our DJ’s and guests will take over FactoLab/Odessa.
You’ll have CD’s, LP’s, signed albums, merchandising from Buraka Som Sistema, Macacos do Chinês, 1-Uik Project, etc…. cheaper than your vuvuzela.
Exclusively on this day we present you PAUS debut EP “É UMA ÁGUA”.
PAUS
Buraka Som Sistema
J-WOW
Macacos do Chinês
Octa Push
1-Uik Project
HARD ASS SESSIONS
E-SPAM001
FactoLab/Odessa
HARD ASS SESSIONS VOLUME II
We present you the second volume of our HARD ASS SESSIONS
After introducing you the volume I with DJ Znobia now comes the volume II and this time we came up with a total different concept: we challenged music producers to make a Kuduro beat.
Instead of boring you with long bio’s and information that you can find all over the web we asked them to introduce themseleves, what they felt when they got this invitation, how it was making this track and what songs they’re really into lately. Here’s what they have to say:
NIC SARNO (Italy)
Track – “Mana Wasa”
- My name is Nic Sarno and I’m from Italy. I’ve started as a dj when i was 13 playin’ in my home with friends after school, with two crashed turntables, smoking weed and listening to nonsense italodisco, hip hop, Sex Pistols and Michael Jackson stuff. Then came the first evenings in clubs, and slowly over time, i’ve sharpened my musical selection. When i was 16/17 years old I’ve started to play in small club and illegal raves and then this strange game turns into a real job. At that time my bag was full of records from Trax, Djaxx Up Beats, Hi Bias, Strictly Rhythm, Power Trax…i was totally into acid house. And then I got my first R&S rec and Warp stuff, like Joey Beltram, AphexTwin or LFO……The productions comes a few years after….but in the same way….playing with samples and synths…without any particular idea about what to produce.
- (working on this project) was a great pleasure. I’ve always been involved in Buraka’s productions. They really inspired me and I am very attracted by the idea to be confronted with different kind of styles. I have always defined me as a DANCE dj – not a techno, or house, or whatever dj. I think this is the real essence of being a dj – MIXING DIFFERENT THINGS – and trying to give it a sense. I’ts just a matter of time and space.
- 5 songs I am into: GONJASUFI – Kowboyz And Indians; STARKEY – Alienstyles
CARIBOU – Sun; MARCUS PRICE & CARLI – Var e Naaaken ( Bok Bok rmx); IL TEATRO DEGLI ORRORI – E’ Colpa Mia
BOK BOK (UK)
Track – “Dance Report”
- I am Bok Bok, I’m a DJ and producer from South London. My tracks live in Tron.
I am co-founder and boss of the Night Slugs label and club alongside my fam L-Vis 1990. I build house tracks for the world of UK bass-heavy soundsystems. I started off playing grime music back years ago and that 100% informs my aesthetic to this day.
- When making “Dance Report” I had to get my head around a whole different type of groove to the one I normally use. I love the totally alien banger aesthetic of real gutta kuduro, and for my track I tried to channel that in the form of hard shaker triplets, massive compression and that crackish repetitive, hypnotik groove. It’s not my usual aproach but I’d like to think on “Dance Report” my grimey house style and the Kuduro style met somewhere in the middle, somewhere sweaty.
- 5 songs I am into: LIL SILVA – Perfussion; GIRL UNIT – IRL; L-VIS 1990 – Forever You; IKONIKA – Look (Final Boss Stage); GUIDO – Mad Sax
Douster (FR)
Track – A Mi a Louco
- I’m a Dj/Producer form Lyon, France , mixing all kind of stuff, from dancehal to house, cumbia to gabber… My music just sounds like my influences, well… all blended together, i can do stupid house music, trippy carribean tribal stuff or straight bangin rap, i like it all! I have stuff out on many different record labels, Nueva cumbia kings ZZK records from Argentina, parisian house music saviors Sound Pellegrino or Family buisness Bebup with my boys Jay weed and Arcade here in Lyon.
- I play kuduro in my sets very often, and a few of my tracks are really kuduro-inspired but i never did a proper kuduro track. I really like very atmospheric kuduro, but i like straight to the ground kuduro stuff too… i kinda get lost into that second option while making the track, as it’s 140bpm stuff, you can easily go half tempo, so i grabbed my autotune and did a little vocal part. The rest of the song is actually pretty basic, Kuduro percussions, gunshots and half epic half gangsta melodies.
- 5 songs I am into: JAY WEED – City Staccs; VYBZ KARTEL ft POPCAAN & GAZA SLIM – Clarkes; DVA – Ganja; DJ ERICK RINCON – La Bomba; MARCUS PRICE & CARLI – Mat, Bira, Kvinnor, Weed (Kingdom Remix)
Zombies for Money (PT)
Track – Me Toca So
- Zombies For Money are Dj Manaia & Klipar, although we have different points of view on electronic music we share a common goal, to make different music getting the right connection between world music and electronic music, from house to techno.
- Its was very interesting to do this track, kuduro is very energic and fast, what we did was trying to do a low tempo kuduro and “Me Toca So” was the result.
- 5 songs I am into: SIDNEY SAMSON “The World Is Yours”; J-WOW “O Dedo!”; BART B MORE “Romane”; KID KAIO & D-RASHID “Tarzan”; LA RIOTS “The Drop”
Tracklist
01 – MANA WASA – Nic Sarno
02 – DANCE REPORT – BOK BOK
03 – A MI A LOUCO – Douster
04 – ME TOCA SO – Zombies for Money
More info about the HARD ASS SESSIONS here
BURAKA SOM SISTEMA SUPPORT THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM WITH A BIG PARTY
Buraka Som Sistema showed their support to the National Football Team who’s leaving to South Africa for the World Championship with an unique live show. With tracks like Neneh Cherry’s “Buffalo Stance”, J-Wow’s “O Dedo”, “Gang Bang” feat Blaya (included on “Blood Diamond” Mixtape), the inevitable “Kalameba (Wegue Wegue)” and “Sound of Kuduro” the audience danced non-stop. Saved for the end was a big explosion of confetti that we could swear made the Black Eye Peas staff go nutts for a while…
BSS Live @ Festival BES Selecção 2010 from Enchufada on Vimeo.
LAIDBACK LUKE AT ENCHUFADA SHOWCASE
We said we had one more guest to announce at ENCHUFADA SHOWCASE and here he is! Laidback Luke (NL) will be joining Benga, Sinden, Buraka DJ’s, PAUS, Octa Push, Macacos do Chinês and Zombies for Money at OPTIMUS ALIVE FESTIVAL. See ya in July 9th!!
More info: here
ENCHUFADA SHOWCASE AT OPTIMUS ALIVE FESTIVAL
On July 9th we own Palco Optimus Clubbing, at the Optimus Alive Festival (Lisbon, PT)!
Will bring Buraka Som Sistema (DJ Set), PAUS (Live), Zombies for Money, Octa Push (Live) and Macacos do Chinês (DJ Set). And just for you we bring Benga, Sinden and Laidback Luke as our very special guests. It will be 9 full hours non-stop!!
More info about the festival here: http://www.optimusalive.com/noticias/24
Buraka Som Sistema covers Neneh Cherry’s ‘Buffalo Stance’
Dr. Martens presents the behind the scenes footage for Portuguese electronic band Buraka Som Sistema who’ve recorded their very own version of Neneh Cherry’s ‘Buffalo Stance ‘
The track is the 4th release of 10 cult classic songs, which have been re-recorded by ten contemporary artists in celebration of Dr. Martens 50th Anniversary.
The Buraka Som Sistema full track and video (Directed by Anthony Burrill) will be available to download for free via the Dr. Martens website (www.drmartens.com) from May 21st 2010.
To get a sneak preview on the behind the scenes and making of the track go to http://50.drmartens.com/artists/buraka-som-sistema
BURAKA SOM SISTEMA ARE BACK ON THE ROAD
Ok! So we’re not putting in your face all the reasons that made Buraka Som Sistema “The band” to watch live since the mythic shows at Club Mercado, in Lisbon. But if for some reason you’re one of the few that still didn’t get the chance to take part on their sonic trip, here’s your chance!
After a six month break, the group comes back with a renewed will to share with all of us not only the songs we know from the Black Diamond album and the Buraka To The World EP, but also some other songs and remixes we’ve heard in FabricLive as well as “B” sides from singles like “IC 19” and “Aqui para Vocês”.
From what we’ve heard at the rehearsals (somewhere around Lisbon) we dare to say that they studied very well their past lectures, but since they always liked to avoid the easiest paths, we can say that the new season starting in May at “Queima das Fitas do Porto” will be loaded with musical surprises.
These last six months revealed pretty productive for each of their members: Riot created Faster Music, a Drum’n Bass, Dubstep and Grime label. J–WOW stepped into a some hyperactive work doing remixes and also brought us two singles, “Klang” – through Deadly People and “O Dedo” through Mad Decent. Conductor went on an trip to Luanda and came back with his second record from his Hip-Hop project “Conjunto Ngonguenga” and as for Kalaf, he kept dedicated to his weekly chronicles at “O Publico” newspaper.
And Buraka themselves still managed to present us with their brilliant BBC Essential Mix last April gathering five star reviews from the international press and opinion-makers.
We told ya, didn’t we???
HARD ASS VOL. 2 – OUT JUNE 1ST
We’ve become ambitious and raised our stakes.
On Vol.1 we’ve introduced you DJ Znobia. This time we’ve asked our dj/producers friends to get out of their comfort zone and make a KUDURO track.
HARD ASS Vol.2 proudly presents Nic Sarno, Bok Bok, Douster and Zombies for Money.
Coming out June 1st
BURAKA SOM SISTEMA BBC ESSENTIAL MIX
Ok ok… the day isn’t over yet!! OMG! Mondays are those days where you have so much to catch up with. And this is a special Monday! Why? Because it follows a very special weekend where our boys Buraka Som Sistema aired their Essential Mix at BBC Radio 1 and Oh my F%#$ God!!! It’s so good it makes you wish you could leap right into the next Friday and sweat your tears off. Common… now that it’s sunny and hot all you have to do is get this mix and make your own party!! Even if it rains tomorrow…
Go HERE to download (File size: 164MB)
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J-WOW – “KLANG”
“Klang” is the debut single of J-WOW.
Watch the video and read here The Fader’s review.
E-SPAM GOT NATIONAL AIRPLAY
João Barbosa aka J-WOW went to Antena 3 to review E-SPAM001 along side with Henrique Amaro at his show Portugália.
They talked about the attempt of Buraka Som Sistema to beat George Cloney’s air miles during last year tour all over the world, about Joao’s inevitable yet short rock career, about Roulet, a guy to watch from who we’ll give you fresh and juicy news pretty soon… But essentially they talked about music and the tracks included on our first compilation. Yes, this means that know that we have started… now can stop us now!!
Click PLAY and hear the broadcast along with some tunes from E-SPAM001
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THIS IS SPAM THAT YOU DON’T WANT TO DELETE!!!
Listen and hit FORWARD!!
We gathered artists from Lisbon to Luanda, put it all on a CD and called it E-SPAM.
There’s no concept. Just music that we like. The CD will be available with Blitz Magazine for Portugal in March and features songs from Buraka Som Sistema, Orelha Negra, PAUS, Macacos do Chinês, Octa Push, Roulet, and many more… The digital release will also be available on all the usual shops around the same time.
As you know we like to party, so we scheduled a couple of launch partyes to complete the package!!
On March 4th we take over Lux, in Lisbon, with a live performance from PAUS followed by a hand-full of DJ’s that will keep you busy all night!!!! Macacos do Chinês (DJ SET), J-WOW (Buraka Som Sistema), Zombies for Money and our guest of honor Douster. Douster is a French young producer who lives in Bueno Aires for the better part of the last 2 years. From remixing Rusko, Nouveau Yorican, Gucci Mane to his own Triassic EP he has produced something completly new and fresh. Lazer Bass Cumbia Reggaeton? Dance it to believe it.Check Douster’s Myspace and SoundCloud.
The next day, March 5th, it’s time to hit Plano B, in Porto! DJ Riot (Buraka Som Sistema), Octa Push (DJ SET) and an exclusive Live show from PAUS! PAUS is a 4 piece band where Helio Morais (Linda Martini) and Quim Albergaria (Vicious 5) play a siamese drum set, together with Mokoto (If Lucy fell) on the bass and Shela on keyboards and all of them try to sing…
Stay tuned for more info very soon!
LET’S DANCE!!
On March 4th we take over Lux, in Lisbon, with a live performance from PAUS followed by a hand-full of DJ’s that will keep you busy all night!!!! Macacos do Chinês (DJ SET), J-WOW (Buraka Som Sistema), Zombies for Money and our guest of honor Douster. Douster is a French young producer who lives in Bueno Aires for the better part of the last 2 years. From remixing Rusko, Nouveau Yorican, Gucci Mane to his own Triassic EP he has produced something completly new and fresh. Lazer Bass Cumbia Reggaeton? Dance it to believe it.Check Douster’s Myspace and SoundCloud.
The next day, March 5th, it’s time to hit Plano B, in Porto! DJ Riot (Buraka Som Sistema), Octa Push (DJ SET) and an exclusive Live show from PAUS! PAUS is a 4 piece band where Helio Morais (Linda Martini) and Quim Albergaria (Vicious 5) play a siamese drum set, together with Mokoto (If Lucy fell) on the bass and Shela on keyboards and all of them try to sing…
EXTREME MAKE OVER
J-Wow is the driving force and one of the main producers in Buraka Som Sistema. After touring with the band around the world, wowing audiences from Coachella in California to Melt Festival in Berlin, from Fujirock in Japan to Bestival in the UK, now it’s time for a break! And like they say “a change is as good as a rest”, J-WOW has been working on some fun and inventive new material for his solo project.
His first release, Klang, is out 15 March on Deadly Records. The track is a delightful listen, and an ambient and melodic departure, which J-Wow says came about in an stress-free, organic sort of way. “I came back from Thailand, sat down in the studio and Klang happened.” This will be followed quickly by a much more main room smasher, “O Dedo” on Diplo’s Mad Decent label in April.
And for you who can’t wait for these, we give you an exclusive J-WOW track for free download. Follow this link , drop your e-mail and this code – REBJ086DA7223ED5 – and get ready to dance!!
Check out J-WOW’s new Myspace, new Twitter and the recently created Soundcloud.
Myspace – www.myspace.com/liljohnproductions
Twitter – www.twitter.com/joaoburaka
Soundcloud – soundcloud.com/j-wow
This month’s E-Radio Enchufada Mixtapes presents J-WOW’s “Wow, That’s What I Call Music“. Go here and press PLAY
ROULET WHO?
Roulet is a young producer from Lisbon that, according to his myspace, is sourrouded by poop…
We don’t really understand why, since the music that he makes tastes like the best fish and chips you’ll ever be able t0 experience, with a unique and very personal approach to kuduro, house and Techno flavours.
Check his myspace songs to see what we’re talking about: http://www.myspace.com/roulet_trole
In case you’re still wondering WTF we’re talking about click http://www.sendspace.com/file/pi935s to download his Remix for Buraka’s Som Sistema track Kurum. Our friend Annie Mac liked it so much that decided to give it away for free on her blog (www.anniemacpresents.com)
BSS Kalemba (Wegue Wegue) hits #1 XMAS Chart in Spain
While Rage Against the Machine reached #1 in the UK Buraka Som Sistema reached the peak in Spain!
The song reached the charts in late September in #40 and 7 weeks later #1 is the new home for the Buraka song.
This is how 2009 ends… let’s see what 2010 brings.
Buraka Som Sistema winners of the EBBA Awards
Buraka Som Sistema won the 2010 European Border Breakers Awards (EBBAs) with the debut album Black Diamond.
The European Border Breaker Awards are given to debut artists or groups for their success in crossing national borders and reaching audiences outside their own country. They are given by the European Commission, in cooperation with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
The Awards highlight the need to make wider use of the potential of the common market in which musical consumption patterns are still predominantly national in nature. Therefore they aim to stimulate the mobility of artists and the circulation of their work within Europe and beyond, as well as to raise awareness and appreciation among audiences of music from outside their national borders.
More info: http://www.european-border-breakers.eu/
