Well, first of all we would like to know what that was and why that is a good opening for this record?īecause it is dramatic, opening up with some drama – emotional drama, it’s emo dance music.Īnd you are quickly going to give us another snippet of something else on the album – what is that? We are going to start from the future and then going to the past? OK, cool. Most definitely… I think it would be really good to hear some more about the particular trips that you took to Angola, but maybe first we should have a listen to something from the album? There is an image of that in the video that we can play. All of us had to sit on his bed, him included, and just listen to the songs really, really loud. We were just there because he works out of his bedroom with some Behringer speakers and his computer, and there were five of us, and the only place to sit was his bed. I remember we were working with DJ Znobia, one of the big names in Angola, the best producer. That has a couple of places that we worked in Luanda, just bedrooms, and then all the rest of the stuff was done in bedrooms. We will probably be seeing the “Sound of Kuduro” video in a while. Can you give us an example of one of the places where you captured someone’s voice? “Let’s give something back.” It would be nice to get an idea about some of the bedrooms and houses and homes you have been in to record vocals for the record. We finished the album and we said like, “Everything is OK, let’s go and buy Cubase.” We try not to complicate things too much. We have a little basement studio that we work in Lisbon, and everything is pretty much software. The beats and everything, it was very easy to work together when we were touring and sometimes in the studio. I think all the recording happened in someone’s house in Luanda or in London or in Lisbon. I think that the term recording doesn’t really apply that much to this record. When we were chatting earlier you were saying it is recorded in cars, in vans, on planes… We have a crappy soundboard and a nice microphone so it sounds always medium anywhere that we record. It is not lo-fi, the microphone is not crappy. So why is that a good way for you to work, that kind of lo-fi, field recording, laptop and crappy microphone?
So, yes, it is really easy to work and do whatever you want to do wherever you want to do. We don’t use anything else besides the laptops and little shitty 100-year old keyboards, MIDI keyboards. What kind of places did you record when you were making it?īasically, the places didn’t really matter, we just had a microphone and laptops all the way through. So, this is Black Diamond, and it was recorded in Angola, in Portugal, and in London. It is going to come out next Monday, next week in Portugal, and throughout Europe in November. You’ve got an album you are dropping next week? We are going to be talking a bit more about some of the time you spent in Angola, but first off, I think we should talk about your new record. My name Conductor and I make music for Buraka also. My name is João Barbosa and I make music with Buraka. I realized I was remiss when I introduced you because I didn’t actually explain who is on the couch, so for the benefit of everybody here, can you explain who we have with us? Our tunes actually sound just a little bit better than the other ones, so that is cool. Everything sounds like ( makes white noise sound), the whole CD. The music, I think what they do as they go to YouTube links and find the video and then they take a recording. It is the names of the songs, everything, everything is wrong. Really? And they mistranslated you too? So, how are you known in Angola then? We’re cool, people are accepting our music When you get bootlegged it means that you are banging and doing the right thing, and we were very bootlegged there. The music market in Angola is a little bit different from the European market. But how are you seen in Angola? Because after all, it is Angolan street music that kind of propelled you to where you are now? You have done and big shows, you’ve done hipster records, and you have made, shall we say, some mad-decent links. ( Applause) Now, we have got a sense of how you are seen in Europe and America.
And they are, of course, Buraka Som Sistema. They are named after a local soundsystem that managed to mistranslate the term soundsystem.
They are repping Lisbon and Luanda and are the main reason most of us have heard of kuduro.
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