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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every week resident FADER selector Eddie STATS runs through dancehall riddims and other artifacts from the ghetto archipelago. Angola is one of those words that resonates with meaning way beyond the ...

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 ...