Kuduro is the infectious, pulsating music and dance that races along at about 140 beats per minute. It's the sound that moves the southwestern African country of Angola. A group called Os Kuduristas — ...

Whether the word Kuduro comes from the Kimbundu language, native to northern Angola and means “location” or from the Portuguese expression meaning “hard ass” or “stiff bottom” is debated but there's ...

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 ...

"A&X, El Orfanato, Danza Kuduro!" That's the shout-out that kicks off "Danza Kuduro," the 2010 reggaetón mega-hit by Don Omar featuring Lucenzo. The reference is to El Orfanato, Don Omar's label, and… ...

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, ...

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 ...

Kuduro, Angola'da bir müzik tarzından çok daha fazlası, bir ruh hali. Sokaktan doğan Kuduro, ülkesinin ve dünyanın geri kalanını fethetmek için yola çıktı. Kuduro, Angola'da bir müzik tarzından çok ...

The word kuduro has two translations. It means "location" in Kimbundu, the native language of northern Angola where kuduro dance music was born, as well as "firm ass" (or "hard ass") in Portuguese, ...

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 ...

The musician known as Nagrelha died on 18 November in Luanda, succumbing to lung cancer. He was 36 years old. Born Gelson Caio Manuel Mendes in 1986 but better known to all as Nagrelha, he was a ...

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… ...