A famous harbour on Portugal's beautiful Atlantic coast, Lisbon combines the music scene of an urban metropolis with the ecstatic nightlife of a major tourist destination. If Fado is not entirely your thing, house and techno clubs like the ultra-stylish LuxFrágil are there to keep you entertained.
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Known as part of The Advent and as a label owner of Kombination Research, Cisco Ferreira is famous for a rough and shuffling techno style with regular excursions into the field of Detroit-ish electro. Soon after leaving school, Ferreira began working as an engineer at Jack Trax Records, a job which enabled him to glimpse first-hand...
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Longtime advocates of sonic terrorism even before banding together as the Advent in 1993, Cisco Ferreira and Colin McBean's assault on conventional techno flourished in part because of abundant glimpses into related styles, from electro and hip-hop to techno.
After Ferreira began working as an engineer at Jack Trax Records, a job...
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Alan Abrahams, the man behind Portable and Bodycode, grew up in an impoverished Cape Town township, tagged 'Beverly Hills' by the locals. Inspired by the first batch of Chicago house records, he experimented with ways of combining traditional African...
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Angolan Kuduro music has been big in Lisbon clubs since the late 90s and Buraka Som Sistema - a.k.a. Lil' John, Riot and Conductor - have fused it with 21st century electronics to create a whole new sound. Now this electro ghettotech take on their favourite South West African music has is quickening and corrupting dance floors all...
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Photonz are Portuguese DJs and producers Marco Rodrigues and Miguel Evaristo, hosts of Oxigénio 102.6 FM's radio show 'Princípio da Incerteza' and the minds behind Lisbon's One Eyed Jacks imprint. Their unpredictable free-styling cosmic/electro/disco...
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