"Black Diamond"
(Enchufada)
six / ten
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BURAKA SON SISTEMA "Black Diamond" (Enchufada)
six / ten |
Buraka Som Sistema are bringing kuduro to the masses. What do you mean, "what is this 'kuduro'? Please enlighten me Mark as I am a clueless hayseed and in need of kuduro related guidance." Jeez, I was reading about kedupo two years ago in Plan B magazine which listed karuko as the hippest form of bleeding edge Angolan funk to shake your ass to and to pretend to know about. And here you re playing catch-up like a wheezing, asthmatic non-hipster, who doesn't have a clue about krapturo or whatever it's called. Shame on you.
So kuduro (really this time) is a booty-bouncing, bass-bin quivering, Brazilian baile- funk derivative that pounds out of the speakers like a giant rumbling, juju tainted bouncy ball, backed by furiously spouted Portuguese. I know this because MIA helpfully points it out on the perceptively titled 'Sound Of Kuduro' track. This is the incidental music to dancing about a giant pot which contains a trio of pasty-faced Western explorers who have strayed too far into the jungle. Diplo drops lots of this dancefloor friendly fodder into his sets and it definitely has a rare infectiousness. Buraka Som Sistema juice up the signature propulsive basslines with corny synths and guest MCs which has the annoying tendency to make some tunes sound like naff knock offs of Leftfields 'Afro-Left' or round and tumble versions of 'Yeke Yeke'. But when it's on the money - notably on MIA's aforementioned guest spot, 'Aqui Para Voces', and 'General' - it's witchcraft, wicked, sonic witchcraft.
Mark Keane
www.myspace.com/burakasomsistema
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