Buraka Som Sistema

In my 9-to-5 gig (often more like 10:30-to-midnight) as the events editor of a Boston alt-weekly, I’m constantly running across all kinds of awesome, completely legal free music downloads of all stripes. And rather than keep ‘em to myself, I’d like to share them with you fine folks.

So let’s start off with a mixtape from Buraka Som Sistema (a Kuduro collective of three Portuguese DJ/producers and a coterie of MCs), whose white-hot new album, Black Diamond, drops on April 7.  Pitchhfork originally posted this mix, “a 20-minute mix of African drum cadences and zippy house synths,” back in November. But since BSS just posted their U.S. tour schedule, I figured it’s plenty relevant. Enjoy!

MP3 LINK: http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/Buraka%20Mixtape.mp3 [via Pitchfork]

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