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For Lisbon’s batida master DJ Marfox, sketching is fundamental. His off-the-wall kuduro cuts are short, sharp shocks to the dancefloor – dense with quirky details but over in a flash. Those are just the ones that made it from his live sets onto record. “90% of my tracks are sketches,” he confirms. “I choose to keep them like that so I can pick and use them throughout a DJ set. When I feel that one is worth transforming into a full-blown track then I dedicate myself to the construction process, where I can change from a lot or just a few things or just leave it as it is and only add one or a few elements.”

But though he refers to them as sketches, Marfox’s prototypes are always bespoke creations, studded with unusual samples and irregular rhythms. He takes the same approach with his Sketch, customising every available contour and transforming samples beyond recognition. “I felt the need to make little edits in everything, from expansions, loops, samples – even the VST presets were tweaked to my own taste,” he explains, in order that the result would be “100% like the sound of Lisbon ghettos.”

NI products used: TRK 01, ABBEY ROAD 70S DRUMMER, MASSIVE X, LUCID MISSION, MODULAR ICONS, SIERRA GROVE

https://blog.native-instruments.com/sketches-dj-marfox/

Sketches 065 - DJ Marfox

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L.X.M.B. BUBACAR (Nigga Fox)

The southern margin of the river Tagus is home to vibrant suburban communities like the one PT MUSIK comes from. Pushing his raw, innovative sound since his teen years when he was known as Puto Tito. One of our favourite people in greater Lisbon, he sent us these bouncy emotional bangers full of naivety.

Out January 21, 2022

art by Inês Coutinho

BANDCAMP

NAIVETY014 - PT MUSIK 'El Mundo Oscuro' (previews)

INPUT

Dj Nervoso - jupiter

Cacilhas

Deejay Narciso : https://soundcloud.com/ruben-narciso

A.k.Adrix - Noite Zombie [IIIII] (FT DJ Narciso )

Durban’s 23 year-old producer Emo Kid has announced he is to release eight-track debut EP, ‘Gqomtera’, through Gqom Oh! on October 27th.

Although titled ‘Gqomtera’, which Emo Kid explains is a slang term he and others use for the music, the record actually explores Sgubhu — another strain of South African dance music that shares many stylistic parallels with Gqom, though is always written with a 4x4 beat. Like DJ Lag before him, an artist widely considered the king of Gqom, Emo Kid is also considered a pioneer in Durban; “Some people call me the Sgubhu king, but I'm just happy they're enjoying my music”, he says.

Based in Inanda, in the Etafuleni area township in Durban, Emo Kid’s house looks out over an area called Isandlwana — the spot where the Zulu army famously defeated the British Army in the Battle Of Isandlwana in 1879. It is from this backdrop that he has written the majority of his music over the last few years, including new record ‘Gqomtera’. He has also spent time producing for well-established South African artists like DJ Tira, a DJ who has been tipped to win an upcoming Red Bull Culture Clash in Durban.

At eight tracks long, ‘Gqomtera’ provides a comprehensive overview of the Sgubhu sound, with the aim of taking the listener on their own ‘Durban Journey’. “I wanted to show the uniqueness of my own style which I would describe as more musical”, Emo Kid explains, “you can feel the music when you listen but it still hits hard with that Gqom flavour.”

That Gqom flavour, powered by hard, fast, uncompromising drums, provides a solid core from which everything else functions. Bright, shimmering trance synths feature on ‘Futuristic Gqom’, while on ‘Enkwarini’ — “another word for a party or fantastic get together” — vocalist Fawell skips over light, playful Sgubhu rhythms. There’s also space for harder, deeper cuts like ‘Ground Shaker’, cut with a twinkling melody line, the charging pace and power of ‘Insimbi Yase Dubane’ and the anthemic ‘Asbambeki’ featuring local crew TLC Fam, translating loosely to being unstoppable; “It means you can’t catch us basically”, Emo Kid says proudly, “On the dance floor, you can’t touch us, we’re on fire.”

Capturing the raw, street sounds of his city, Emo Kid is the latest Durban artist to take the music global and with ‘Gqomtera’, put Sgubhu firmly on the map.

Gqomtera EP

Emo Kid - Enkwarini featuring Fawell (remastered 2017)

Nídia Ft Gamboa Beatz - Mama Africa 2018

LEANDRO

soundcloud.com/meetdjkaren
soundcloud.com/lokowat
soundcloud.com/klein-rat-dub
soundcloud.com/djnulorsprod
soundcloud.com/wwwaaahhh

Artwork by Valen Paulucci
Master by Nico Bruschi

RS Produçoes - Alc

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