Although kuduro has started to reach people’s ears around the world thanks to bands such as Buraka Som Sistema or M.I.A., the sound of Luanda has yet to truly break through. Killamu has been part of the Angolan kuduro scene for ten years now, and started producing tracks for Gueto Produções together with Mestre Ara eight years ago. The duo quickly established their production company as one of the finest in Luanda, collaborating with many of Angola’s most innovative kudurists, laying tracks for artists such as Puto Prata, Noite e Día and Fofandó & Saborosa, and paving the way for the next generation of hard-hitting, rhyme-spitting kuduro lyricists. With hips of hits behind him, Killamu has become an unavoidable producer on the kuduro circuit. But as this album shows, his versatility allows him to explore sounds beyond this sole movement, starting with kizomba (Angolan zouk), and his experimentations of instrumental electronic kuduro beats have definitely set him aside within Angola’s kuduro community.
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