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Buraka Som Sistema biografia

Buraka Som Sistema are a band hailing from Amadora, Portugal. Since forming in 2006 they have released four studio albums and become one of the most acclaimed Portuguese bands of their generation, scoring a Spanish number one single in 2008 with their single "Kalemba (Wegue Wegue)".

With a name based roughly around the Portuguese translation of Buraka Sound System, Buraka Som Sistema was formed around the collaboration of João Barbosa and Rui Pité, who were both producers for the Cool Train Crew collective. Along with Kalaf Ângelo, a vocalist who had worked with the Cool Train Crew a number of times, they were interested in putting together a band to play kuduro, an Angolan style of music that fused the sounds of Soca music with house and techno. At first, Buraka Som Sistema was the name of the club night that the trio put together to spread the word about kuduro music, and it was there that they met Andro Carvalho, a hip-hop producer actually hailing from Angola, in 2006.

Carvalho was the missing piece of the puzzle, and soon after they met the four-piece turned Buraka Som Sistema from a club night into a fully-fledged band, turning in staggering live sets at clubs and small festivals all around their native Portugal. Their first limited release E.P, September’s “From Buraka To The World” sold out its run almost immediately, leading the band to put some extra tracks on it and release it as their debut album soon afterwards. By 2007, they’d gone global, playing Glastonbury Festival and collaborating with M.I.A for their track “Sound Of Kuduro”. By 2008 the band had signed a record deal with Sony BMG, and ever since then, they’ve remained one of the most acclaimed acts in Portuguese music. With an MTV Europe Music Award to their name, along with a number one single in Spain and a Gold record for their 2008 album “Black Diamond”, Buraka Som Sistema come highly recommended.

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It’s been quite the year or so for Disclosure; the Surrey-born brothers, Guy and Howard Lawrence, have enjoyed major critical and commercial success with their debut record, Settle, an intriguing blend of garage and deep house that had enough of a pop sensibility to make them a firm fixture on UK radio. I’d say it’s hard to believe they’re so young - twenty-three and twenty, respectively - although that’d probably be disingenuous of me, given that they both look about twelve. Among their many live highlights of the past year or so - and there’s been plenty of them, given that they’ve toured prodigiously and played high-profile sets at the likes of Glastonbury and Coachella - came at the Parklife Weekender in Manchester, where they curated and headlined a huge outdoor stage on the Sunday. Despite the fact that they were effectively topping the bill on the second stage, the crowd voted with their feet, and the verdict was clear; Foals played what was ostensibly the festival’s headline set to a sparse main stage audience, whilst Disclosure played to vast valley of people, with many amongst them trying, and failing, to take up the high ground on the hill as the trough below swarmed with fans. To put it bluntly, they’ve got the world at their feet; their followers will be hoping that whatever they do next can be translated to the stage with as much energy as Settle.

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