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Kuduro
What is Kuduro?
Kuduro emerged in Luanda, Angola in the early 1990s — specifically from the Musseques, the informal settlements on the periphery of the city, built by people displaced by decades of civil war that had been running since 1975. The word kuduro means stiff buttocks in Portuguese — a reference to the rigid, jerking dance style that went with the music. It was electronic, fast, built on drum machines and samplers, entirely homemade. It came from people with nothing except energy and proximity to each other.
Angola’s civil war ended in 2002. Kuduro had already spread through the Portuguese-speaking African diaspora — to Cape Verde, Mozambique, Portugal, the UK. It influenced house music, it influenced grime, it influenced sounds that do not acknowledge the debt. NMC Signal acknowledges the debt. Kuduro is part of the lineage this station is built on — raw, communal, made outside every industry structure that existed.
Who NMC Signal Plays
Artists connected to the Angolan diaspora and to the Kuduro tradition. Artists making music in that spirit whether or not they use the name. Unsigned, independent, honest.
Tracks on NMC Signal
13 tracks · Full catalogue →
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