TAG: Buraka Som Sistema

Feb08

World’s Coldest Party: Igloofest 2012 (Recap)

Nearly 70,000 attendees brave the elements for January festival 

View of the Igloofest main stage – Photos by Ed Gumuchian


For three long weekends in January, thousands of bundled-up partiers made their way down to Montreal’s Old Port for the sixth installment of the Igloofest festival. Like its summer counterparts Mutek and Piknic Electronik, the festival was strategically planned out in order to draw a huge, diverse crowd for each night. Although starting a night at 6:30pm doesn’t tend to turn out well for anyone, it meant that concertgoers had a fighting chance of surviving Montreal’s sometimes unbearable nighttime winter temperatures, and they could still take public transit …

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Jun23

Sonar 2011 Barcelona

International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art 

URB spent another wonderful weekend in the amazing city of Barcelona for the annual Sonar Electronic Music Festival. And like year’s past, the spot on music programming combined with the wonderful Spanish city and always up-for-it European crowd to make Sonar a must-experience destination for music heads.

Here’s some of our top moments.

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Apr09

RetroTV: Major Noize at Terminal 5 (Video)

If you’ve been in LA at any point during the last three years, chances are you’ve heard about HARDfest. The city’s premiere party for some of the nastiest electro acts around, HARDfest has staged haunted Halloween mansions with the likes of Deadmau5 and Justice and brought heat to sweaty summer afternoons with all-out assaults from MSTRKRFT, Crookers, and Rusko. It was NYC’s turn this past Saturday: HARDfest partnered with The Bowery Presents to bring its signature blend of bass and blitz to Manhattan’s cavernous Terminal 5 with a lineup that included Russian noisemaker Proxy, dancehall upstarts Major Lazer and electro wunderkind Boys Noize.

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Apr05

Dam-Funk x Dr. Martens – “Things That Dreams are Made Of” (Video)

Dr. Marten’s is celebrating its 50th anniversary and is marking the ocassion with an assortment of downloads and videos from contemporary artists performing covers (see below for list). The first installment features Angeleno Dam-Funk and he lets all the corniness and hilarity loose on this Human League cover of “Things That Dreams are Made Of.” Directed by Ace Norton, the video tosses the conventional aside and favors magic carpet rides, but does Dam keep his signature shades on.



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Feb13

Buraka Som Sistema – Fabriclive 49 (Review)

Buraka Som Sistema

Fabriclive 49

Released by Fabric


2009 was a good year for Buraka Som Sistema. The Lisbon, Portugal-based crew put progressive kuduro on the map in 2007 with their M.I.A.-assisted track “Sound of Kuduro” and spent the past year promoting their acclaimed 2008 studio debut, Black Diamond, with electric live shows that can only be described as epic.  Their electro Afro-funk sound, soca rhythms, and—of course—kuduro-rave energy has swept the club scene around the world, so it’s no surprise that London’s legendary Fabric nightclub would call on BSS to head up FabricLive 49. “The bass keeps coming, and coming, and coming and coming... and going and going and going and drops,” we’re informed on “Hey.” And drop it, they do; BSS assembles a mix that wades through grimy dubstep, electro, dancehall, Peruvian funk and features artists from across the globe—Angola, Portugal, France, Jamaica, Peru and the UK, among others.

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