Batida, by Batida

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12" vinyl version of Batida's eponymous debut album

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1.	Pronto Pra Batida 00:13	buy track
2.	Alegria 03:35	buy track
3.	Yumbala 03:28	buy track
4.	Tirei o Chap̩u 03:33	buy track
5.	Puxa 04:09	buy track
6.	Bazuka (Quem Me Rusgou) 03:51	buy track
7.	Tribalismo 04:23	buy track
8.	Ka Heueh 04:08	buy track
9.	Saudade 03:10	buy track
10.	Cuka 04:09	buy track

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Soundway are set to release the debut album from Batida, the brainchild of Angolan / Portuguese Pedro Coquenão. A distinctly modern and vibrant project with its feet firmly rooted in the past, Batida combine samples from old 1970s Angolan tracks with modern electronic dance music. Music is the starting point but through dance, graphics, photography, radio and video, Batida expands, taking in politics and social commentary but always bringing it back to the party.

Being the first of a string of brand new projects, this eponymous first album sees Soundway taking a slightly different direction in 2012 and beyond. Championed mostly for their work in un-earthing and re-releasing classic, rare and vintage tropical recordings, Soundway have started signing new acts that have drawn on and been inspired by the kind of music found on the label’s groundbreaking compilations and re-issues.

What originally started out as a radio show designed to promote new African music has slowly evolved into a collaborative project crossing continents.

Whereas nearly all of kuduro (Angolan electronic music) has no links with its country’s musical heritage, it is deeply engrained in Batida’s music. Sampling tracks from 1970s Angola, Batida is a reinterpretation of Angola’s musical past, bringing it firmly into the modern day.

Batida’s high energy live show features dancers, percussionists, MCs alongside visuals and images (both archive and new) of Angolan streets, war and fragments of tribal life.

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“Slippery guitars of classic African dance-band music and a touch of pumping super-modern bass.”
The Telegraph

“It may well be a game-changing 21st century electronic African dance album”
Songlines

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released March 26, 2012

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Batida Lisbon, Portugal

My name is Pedro Coquenão, I was born in Huambo, Angola and raised in the suburbs of Lisbon, Portugal. I have been creating and interacting with music, dance, visual, plastic and radio arts under the name Batida. It means beat in Portuguese and it relates to Luanda dance/music culture.

“It’s just on another level” Gilles Peterson BBC6 👹
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