Kuduro de Angola

Dj Znóbia feat Nayo Crazy - Piada - 2006

Here he is! A set with Dj Znóbia, the most peculiar artist in the angolan scene.

Angolan people just don't care, about rock, pop or conceptual music. As long as they can dance angolan music, african music, brazillian music, or carabean sounds who needs adolescent WASP paranoias from a far material world?

Dj Znóbia start to be known about 13 years ago. He was dj animator with a electronic tendence in a country where tropical rythms rules, there's no place to anglo-saxonic pop, rock.

With is dj kit, Znóbia put angolan youth to electronic dance, in a time when only the famous now closed Luanda Pandemonium discothèque was playing electronic stuff.

Then, Znóbia start producing other peoples records and later is own records. Nowdays he wants to be a singer, not a very good singer, but he manage himself with that.

Dj Znóbia it's not a pure kudurista and he mooves through other angolan music styles. But he has a big word in kuduro guetho moovement as producer and with his own records.

In the beguin his records where mainly beats mixed with international electronic music. Then he progress to lots of original stuff, most of them with very naif sounds, some of them with extraordinary beats.

But, maybe because of that naiveté, he's the most original electronic angolan music producer. He does unnexpected mixes, incredible wrong ways of doing the musical arrangements, but, again, this makes him incomparable, and in my humble opinion, the only angolan dj with a true international beat.

The only question: his music can be gorgeous or ridiculous, but always worth a listening.

He will be often with us, here, as you guess...