Buraka Som Sistema hooked up in 2006. They are made up of João Barbosa (Li’l John), Rui Pité (DJ Riot), Andro Carvalho (Conductor) and Kalaf Ângelo.
Barbosa and Pité were producers from the Cool Train Crew collective, for which Kalaf was a frequent vocal collaborator. They were interested in creating a kuduro project, and had previously worked together as UIK Project. They met Carvalho, a hip-hop producer from Angola and member of the hip-hop band Conjunto Ngonguenha, while he was in Portugal.
They took their name, Buraka, from the freguesia of Buraca in the city of Amadora, part of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area.
Peep Kalemba Wegue Wegue (Hot Chip Remix)
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They’re at Scala in London on Thursday 12th of Febuary
&
Digital in Brighton on friday 13th Febuary
We’ll be at the Brighton show shocking out!
Crack x
