Buraka Som Sistema
The Portuguese supergroup explains the beauty of working with non-cracked sequencers
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The Angolan music market is different from the European. When you get bootlegged it just means you are banging.
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We make beats that sound like kuduro but we don't actually make it. They call it batida in Angola, beats.
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We are trying to give something that people feel is real and is us. We are not performing with a flag or something.
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Interviewer
Emma Warren
Inspired by her early days as a rave connoisseur, Emma Warren went on to become a founding writer for Jockey Slut and spent four years at The Face; she currently writes for the Observer Music Magazine, Time Out and boutique magazines like Marmalade and Dummy. In addition, Emma has passed a judicial eye over the Mercury Music Prize nominations and created bespoke productions for Channel 4 and 20th Century Fox, among others. She’s also been behind numerous compilations on the London’s seminal Soul Jazz label, but we’re not naming names.
