In this episode of Smirnoff and Mixmag’s ongoing documentary series Global Dancefloor viewers are transported to the African nation of Angola to explore how the country’s booming musical export of ...

When I wrote about fidget house a few weeks ago I spoke of how lots of the producers associated with this blog-friendly genre were using elements of world music to spice up their own, largely dull, ...

This type of music invented in the capital of Angola is starting to conquer the planet, but its creators say Kuduro is much more than a type of music, it's a state of mind. In Angola, Kuduro is much ...

Getting over 11 million hits of an official music video on Youtube and Vevo is not typically a unique accomplishment nowadays. But for a Latin act, notching those numbers in barely a month - its not… ...

The Angolan producer arrived at his own version of the dance style kuduro after adding layered synths to folk rhythms, and these tracks show his lo-fi ingenuity In the late 90s, dancer Sebastião Lopes ...

This music encapsulated the moment. It is synthed up, but its smooth, tropical sound made it danceable and possible to play when acoustic and electric instruments were few and far between. The older ...

While putting together our Africa issue, the dudes in Buraka Som Sistema hooked us up with some footage shot of them in Angola with kuduro wizard DJ Znobia. The video was unedited and only kind of ...

Two years ago in Morocco, Brother John Robb stumbled across a documentary on the Angolan rave form kuduro and was instantly converted. Here he explains why. John Robb Published 4:14am 26 November 2008 ...