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Mr Frederic Galliano has been a true homie and sent us a couple of unreleased BONUS BEATS from his recent Kuduro Sound System album to give away as free downloads.

So you can just slot them into your sets or mash them up with something or create a remix out of them or something completely new, it up to you.

Thanks Mr Galliano

Saudade Nova York BONUS BEAT

Wo wo wo BONUS BEAT

THE ALBUM

You can grab the album from AMAZON as follows:

LONG DJ VERSION

SHORT DJ VERSION

Plus you can grab the First album HERE

LINKS:

KUDURO SOUND SYSTEM YOU TUBE PAGE

KUDURO SOUND SYSTEM FACEBOOK PAGE

FREDERIC GALLIANO FACEBOOK PAGE

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Radioclit did a Funana mix. Most people dont even know where Cape Verde is and now there music is poppin up. Why? Hm I guess Radioclit listened to some Buraka Som Sistema and checked the neighboring countries for something to redo theirselfes. What they did on their “Fu (Na Na Na) Mix” is actually the same Buraka Som Sistema did to Angolas Kuduro. You take the original music and mix it with fitting, high tech western music till it passes the bouncer. Since Lissabons Kuduro scene is made up of as many Cape Verdians as Angolans (the countrys are connected since they shared a colonial occupant), I guess they´d go bananas over some pimped out Funana too. The only western guys who did that before is Schlachthof Bronx from Munich far as I know. Read more at schakkerhart.com

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Most of us around here are quite familiar with the things Banksy did with an African theme but how many of us knew he was physically in Africa doing graffiti? Not many - until we saw what he did there in the drawings and photos now on display in the recreated studio part of his exhibition Banksy Versus Bristol Museum. Read more at flickr.

Here is a great track from “Rough Guide to the Music of the Sahara (2005)”. The compilation contains a handful of other southern Moroccan guitar groups like the Sublime Frequency superstars, as well as some great stuff from neighboring Mauritania and the rest of the Sahrawi territory region. These compilations are certainly very rough places to start, but that’s all you can really ask for when they are titled as such. Great sample source for Babalao tracks! (via davequam.blogspot.com)

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With the opening of the section BABALAU, I think it`s a good idea leave this post about on one of the biggest African music … Mr. Fela Kuti!

Frankly, I always dreamed of playing in his group. His music is HYPNOTIC !!!!

Watch the interview with Mulatu / The Heliocentrics about their forthcoming album “Inspiration Information 3″.

A short film in 2 parts howing how as a musician you can meet people and play with them forming a creative bonding.

For their fifth release, the incredible Analog Africa label has compiled 14 “super rare and highly danceable masterpieces recorded between 1969 -1981 by four legendary composers from Benin titled Legends of Benin. Wonderful album, great inspiration and samples. Get the full album at amazon.com, it´s worth it. Anybody up for doing a small mash?