Buraka Som Sistema
Portugal's Buraka Som Sistema are part of the fabric family - their debut album 'Black Diamond' came out this year on our label. Fusing traditional Angolan kudoro with European electronic music, the potent combination destroys dancefloors, believe.
Buraka Som Sistema have always liked throwing curveballs. From their first DJ residencies, where off-the-cuff sets were ?pretty much rehearsed live...mixing for people at raves, that was our practice ? kinda like shock therapy? to incorporating unusual material into their songs ? recording shattering glass, or throwing an orange at the wall and using the sound as a snare. Even their first drum & bass collective, Fusion Lab, had a reputation for mixing things up: ?it wasn?t all about drum & bass, it was all about experimenting with crazy beats.? So it was hardly surprising that some years ago, on a whim, they ended up playing around with an obscure mid-90s genre like kuduro
