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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.
Ça frôlait l'arnaque cette annonce !! En fait il n a jamais été question du groupe Buraka. Je ne les ai pas vu. Un soit disant membre du groupe serait venu jouer les DJ à je ne sais sais quelle heure ...
I watched Son Rompe Pera in 2023 in Hamburg (after watching them in Utrecht at LeGuessWho in 2022 and falling immediately in love).
What can you say? Their concerts rock. The skills on marimba and drums are incredible, the music is full of energy. If you can make even the older, yuppie audience of LeGuessWho shake it off, you've made it.
Prepare for 1 1/2 hour of cumbia punk madness, in Hamburg there was a moshpit.
The concert started at 21:30 instead of the advertised 21:00, which is a shame if you have to catch the last train to Bremen. However, this is industry standard so to speak :D