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E Dreda ser Angolano
A Documentary Film about the Angolan capital Luanda. The film captures its madness, its music, and people. See filmmaker Pedro aka DJ Mpula live this Friday 1.10.2010 at Motherland, Zurich. Click here...
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Angolanidade revisited – Kuduro
This article explores the role of Kuduro, the popular Angolan electronic music and dance style in the process of updating the national Angolan identity called angolanidade to the conditions of the new...
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Kudoro heisst der Tanz- und Musikstil aus Angola, den Buraka Som Sistema auf Europas Dancefloors heimisch gemacht hat. In London liegt das DJ-Kollektiv aus Portugal genauso im Trend wie in Rom oder...
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Bootlegs, Irony and Butts
Buraka Som Sistema – J-Wow (João Barbosa), DJ Riot (Rui Pité), Kalaf Ângelo, Andro Carvalho and newest member Blaya are in the world of Kuduro key players even though they are – in a way – outsiders,...
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Dance through the norient
For the next four weeks, every wednesday norient presents you a selection of our thematic dossiers. This week we have a look on old and new dance styles from all over the world: with fast Juke-steps...
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Rap-breaks from Africa
Via fast plane YouTube Norient travels criss cross the rapping african continent. We start with fast Mbira-accompagnied flows from Kinshasa and end with meta-discourses and rap-philosophies from...
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Lusophonic Beats in Berlin
The two day festival Lusotronics in Berlin (18+19.5.2013) celebrates the digital, urban music lifestyles of the four main countries of the Portugese speaking world: Angola, Brasil, Mozambique and...
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11 Musik-Blogs aus Angola
Niemand speist so viele Blogs mit Musik aus Angola wie António Fernandes alias O Toke É Esse. Weil er damals bei einem Studiumsaufenthalt in Portugal die Musik seiner Heimat vermisst hatte, wollte er...
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Kuduro meets Tecno-Brega
… and other «Lusotronic» encounters in Club Gretchen, Berlin, 17-18 May 2013. «Lusotronic» festival in May 2013 brought Portuguese electronic music to Berlin's multicultural neighborhood Kreuzberg. The...
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Angola tanzt den harten Hintern
Kuduro mit seinen harten Raps ist das beatlastige Dancefloor-Gewitter aus dem süd-westafrikanischen Angola. Szenestar Titica wurde als Mann geboren. Sie schert sich keinen Deut um die Reaktionen...
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Norient-Videoclip-Night am Queersicht
Der 40. Geburtstag des Hip Hops ist für Theresa Beyer von Norient Grund genug, sich durch YouTube zu wühlen und die schrillsten, witzigsten und schönsten Musikvideos von schwulen, lesbischen,...
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Lusofonia, a (R)Evolução
Discourses of Atlantic Roots and Routes in ‘Luso World Music’ Click here to view the embedded video. Trailer Lusophony, the (R)Evolution This article presents the development of a ‘Luso world music’...
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Queer Hip Hop Clips From 8 Countries
Norient is concerned about the anti-LGTB backlash from Uganda to Russia. In solidarity with the queer activists who fight against these inhuman laws we flicked through You Tube and collected queer hip...
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