Kuduro
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Kuduro (or kuduru) is a type of music and dance originally developed in Angola in the 1980s. It is characterized as uptempo, energetic, and danceable. Kuduro began in Luanda, Angola in the late 1980s. Initially, producers sampled traditional carnival music like soca and zouk from the Caribbean, and also semba from Angola and laid this around a fast 4/4 beat.
The kuduro is similar to the Kizomba rhythm. The lyrics are usually in Portuguese.
The roots of kuduro can be traced to the late 1980s when producers in Luanda, Angola started mixing African percussion samples with zouk and soca to create a style of music then known as Batida ("Beat"). European and American electronic music had begun appearing in the market, which attracted Angolan musicians and inspired them to incorporate their own musical styles. Young producers began adding heavy African percussion to both European and American beats. In Europe, western house and techno producers mixed it with house and techno.
The history of kuduro has come about in a time of Angolan civil unrest, and provided a means of coping with hardship and positivity for the youngergeneration. With the strong immigration to Portugal of Angolan citizens kuduro spread and evolved further in the neighborhoods of Lisbon, with the inclusion of additional musical elements from genres of Western European electronic music, giving origin to the progressive kuduro.
Progressive kuduro it is nothing more than kuduro from the late 90's that started in Angola, it is a kind of kuduro with strong electronic element, kuduro always has been and started as electronic music, unknown to some that do not know kuduro since the beginning so when buraca started doing some tough it is new, but wasn't. It can be said that the called kuduro classico it is what some want to call kuduro progressivo, the producers that started producing this are Angolans even outside Angolan, now have some French and Portuguese. Probably the French were the first European to give a close attention to kuduro thanks to Costoleta with Tchiriri that was a success in France in Portugal kuduro was accepted very late despite the fact that in Portugal had more kuduristas and Angolans, Kuduro were not accepted when were just Angolans doing, to be accepted despite the fact that existed a lot of kuduristas in Portugal, had to come up an Portuguese band mixed Portuguese and Angolans the buraca son sistema, and for the Portuguese to accept had to be renamed progressive kuduro, this was what some had done to be more acceptable and them some tried to go even further and call Portuguese genre of kuduro but this kind of kuduro is made since the 90's in Angola.
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