The “Sound of Kudoro” Is “the Titts”

Tittsworth and Buraka Som Sistema

Blame the internet, or M.I.A., but I can’t remember when there was so much international cross-pollination going on in dance music. Yeah, back in the day the Brits took House and Techno and made them their own, spawning the Rave culture that eventually found its way back to our shores, bringing us Drum-N-Bass in the process. But the only exotic localized dance music phenomenon I recall anybody talking about back then was the Bhangra and Goa coming out of India at the time. Now everybody’s trading Baile Funk, Bmore Club, Breakcore, Dubstep, Ghettotech, Juke, Kuduro and Kwaito back and forth like it’s nothing.

Tittsworth ‘Twelve Steps’So far I haven’t noticed anybody–other than the aforementioned M.I.A., and she was one of the first since 2 Hype Brothers and a Dog in ‘92–who’s pulled many of these parochial sub-genres into the mainstream spotlight. I heard that Benny Blanco remix of Justice’s “D.A.N.C.E.” with Spank Rock on it on a Top 40 radio station’s nightly countdown once…Dude N Nem’s “Watch My Feet” was a breakthrough hit for Chicago’s Juke scene, which Kid Sister also payed homage to in her Kanye co-signed “Pro Nails” video…But that’s about it. That is, until I heard Wachington DC-based DJ/producer Tittsworth’s full length debut Twelve Steps.

I’ve been a Tittsworth fan for a while; my attention won by his vinyl EPs featuring Bmore remixes of classic tunes such as The Commodores‘ “Easy.” So I got pretty gassed when I heard he’d dropped his official debut as an artist and producer. And when I heard the first single, a percolating, bell-bedecked knocker featuring expletive-laced guest raps from the aforementioned Kid Sister and former Five Deez member and Spank Rock homie Pase Rock titled “WTF” I knew I needed the album. The disc features an array of unlikely contributors–including Detroit Ghettotech pioneer DJ Assault, Bay Area Hyphy clique The Federation, Miami’s Pitbull and identical twin singing duo Nina Sky–which had me asking “WTF” my damn self. And with the rough edges ground down the sound of the album as a whole is a lot slicker and cleaner than expected, making it easy to peg as a Bmore crossover effort, even though it’s on an indie.

Tittsworth “WTF” feat. Kid Sister and Pase Rock

Buraka Som Sistema ‘Black Diamond’The Afro-European genre Kuduro, which originated in Angola and quickly took root in Portugal, doesn’t have enough multinational cache to warrant such polished output yet. It’s only recently begun catching on outside it’s native enclaves. But I’ve seen some big-name DJs fawning over the genre of late…The sputtering rhythms of Hot Chip’s bouncy “One Pure Thought” could easily have been influenced by the genre…And M.I.A. recorded a tune with the genre’s lead ambassadors Buraka Som Sistema. The song is on their debut Black Diamond, which is the closest thing the genre’s seen to a mainstream commercial breakthrough at this point.

As introductions go Buraka Som Sistema couldn’t have picked a better title for the cut they recorded with M.I.A. than “Sound of Kuduro.” It sounds like a mix of Bassline House, bubbly Caribbean rhythms and percussion a-la Soca and Dancehall, with Portuguese raps, dubby ad-libs, tribal samples and M.I.A.’s infectious chants bouncing around. Black Diamond builds on this hybrid of thumping House-style beats, Afro-Caribbean polyrhythms and Portuguese toasting, piling on elements cribbed from or inderectly akin to American Hip-Hop/Crunk, UK Grime, Reggaeton and the lo-fi Electro/Bass-inspired Baile Funk of another former Portuguese colony, Brazil. It’s a diverse album that jumps from sizzurp slow to booty-jiggle fast during it’s 50-minute play time, often during one song. Their Rough Diamond EP is also recommended for remixes of “Kalemba (Wegue Wegue)” and “Yah” by Hot Chip, Reso and The Count and Sinden.

Buraka Som Sistema “Sound of Kuduro” feat. DJ Znobia, M.I.A., Saborosa and Puto Prata

“Kalemba (Wegue Wegue)” feat. Pongo Love

There’s yet to be a renaissance of the popular acceptance of international dance music that happened here in the states during the late ’80s and early ’90s.  I’m not hearing Dubstep on the radio, and Baile Funk or Kuduro still haven’t joined Reggaeton on the airwaves.  But Britney Spears did jack a Dubstep-esque bassline on her tune “Freakshow” and I have heard little girls at the mall reciting M.I.A. lyrics…So that’s something.

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