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Black Diamond

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Buraka Som Sistema are a rag tag team that put together an excellently thumping album that has a streamlined semi-theme to it. It's genre is kuduro; although it could easily pass with great acclaim and pride to be the fantastic melding of latin-esque style, hip-hop & 'drum & bass's dependence on strong bass rythyms, and the sampling & variations with electronica-like approach. The thematic gist of 'Black Diamond' seems to be on the verge of attempting to say something able to be interpreted as socio-political speech. From the obvious that the members are a Portuguese-Angolan identifying piece, to the tracks 'Africas Pt. 1' & '2', they infuse the convergence of cultures to create a sound quantifiably not new to the ear, but distinctly original in it's own product. This may, one might say, mirror the developing socio-political changes that are presently occurring in Angola (Africa symbollically as a whole) and Portugal (the E.U., really) as presented in the language and the topics briefly mentioned throughout different tracks & in the short title itself. Obviously the past of these two countries and continents is not positive, but at present, with the changes and developments in both that we may or may not be aware of, there is an interaction & even potential sense of interdependence that is the elusive message behind the simple content of 'Black Diamond'. Buraka Som Sistema may be surmised as saying: while past is prologue, the present is - as these artists have created through their music - what we make to be the future. That, or I've read too deep into it. Either way, it's a superb album for people who enjoy hip-hop, techno or electronica, and/or reggaeton/latin-influenced pop.

Well. The first time i'm listen Buraka, was in a video game. The Kalemba song like me so much. I must to say than the box is very original, because is an skencil to do graffiti by your self. The album is a very good material to dance or mix. I prefer hear from track number 2 to 6, because have continuity, and the MC's are so creative. I'm don't recommend hear the entire album if you are not dancing, because all the disk have the same beat. Regards.

Although I'm not new to African music (in a broad sense) I'm new at Kuduro, this is the first kuduro CD I'd bought. I totally loved it, it's very catchy, has a lot of energy and I love the African influence. I hope Amazon expands its catalog of Kuduro bands, such as Os Lambas or Dog Murras.

The songs in this cd are amazing, are really energetic and ecletic, you can dance till you fall!

THIS DANCE ALBUM FROM AFRICAN EURO CULTURE IS TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOT!!! CAN MIX WITH ANY UPBEAT USA DANCE MUSIC IN THE HOUSE MUSIC GENRE, OR TRY MIXING WITH SOCA JAMS...I CAN'T STOP DANCING! BLACK DIAMOND...EXACTLY!!! INCREDIBLE, THE BOMB! IF THE FIRST HALF IS TOO TECHNO TO THRILL YOU...ROCK TO THE SECOND HALF, START WITH IC19! TAKE US INTO 2009 EURO SOUTH AFRICA!

Remember this name yall BURAKA SOM SISTEMA!!!! THE SOUNDSYSTEM IS HERE!!!! Yall gonna go bananas!!