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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

This type of music invented in the capital of Angola is starting to conquer the planet, but its creators say Kuduro is much more than a type of music, it's a state of mind. In Angola, Kuduro is much ...

"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… ...

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 ...

Kuduro is party music, the kind you'd find in clubs anywhere in the world. But it has a deeper meaning in Angola, a country still scarred by a 22-year civil war that just ended only a decade ago.