Kuduro experimentalist and @principepromos member @djnarcisorsprod traverses new and unreleased original material.

Read more: ifonlyuk.com/if-only-podcast-107-dj-narciso

If-Only Podcast #107: DJ Narciso

@djdanifox is at the heart of Lisbon's underground and a driving force in batida, the sound of the city's Afro-diasporic underground. It's a heavy sound with rhythms influenced by kuduro, tarraxo and Lisbon ghetto, the melodies of techno and percussive layers from Africa. Most recently Danifox has offered up Ansiedade, a second album on Príncipe Discos that explores space, hypnotic loops and rich instrumentation while never straying far from the dance floor. His own talk-singing adds a newly introspective layer to the sound that makes it all the more potent.

This week's mix is both a superb batida primer for the newly initiated, but also a compelling overview of where the sound is at right now for long-time fans. In the space of 60 minutes, Danifox explores all avenues from the languid and loose to the pounding and physical. It's a mix that is always on the move as mystic flutes lead into tin-plated percussion, whirring synths melt into balmy late-night chords and broken rhythms become more seductive. As the days are heating up and summer hits full swing, there are few better soundtracks to an afternoon in the sun than this.

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Dekmantel Podcast 435 - DJ Danifox

Príncipe OG @djnk brings the ghetto sound of Lisbon on a contribution to the podcast series.

A key proponent of Lisbon's kuduro sound, first exposure came via a 2006 compilation that has since achieved cult status. Introducing a spectrum of hyper-local sounds, ‘DJs Do Guetto’ took a unique slant on rhythms of the African diaspora, specifically those native to Angola. In turn, it laid foundations for what would become one of the most consistently intriguing, boundary-pushing labels about.

Where a 2016 Lit City Trax debut embraced hybridity in a straight-for-the-jugular assault of batida, kuduro and tarraxinha, N.K. has also shared Príncipe engineering duties with the legendary Tó Pinheiro da Silva. And now, after all this time, he’s back on the label with some original music. 

Gracing the long awaited second volume to that aforementioned compilation with no fewer than three new tracks, this mix also deploys mutant club styles to devastating effect. Teriyaki Boyz-sampling kuduro to an N.K. remix of some classic Atlanta trap, it goes very hard.

“With this mix I wanted to show the contrast between the recent N.K. versus the old. 

It’s a journey from the present to the past, culminating in Marfox's latest track in collaboration with Tristany and Pongo titled De.Gra.De (its appearance at Eurovision was another super important step in our style of music that we don't stop believing in). 

I also wanted to convey that our sound has no manners. We don't make music to try to get somewhere, we just make it.” – DJ N.K.

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If-Only Podcast #125: DJ N.K.

Rogério Brandão, aka DJ Nigga Fox, made his hybrid music influenced by kuduro, afro-house, Angolan deep, tarraxinha, batida, and has created some of the depest and freshest music. He made this mix on his last visit to Mexico City for Museo Jumex and @NAAFI residencies. Start the moves and enter the sound of Nigga Fox.

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i-DJ: Nigga Fox

Fractured rhythms and booming basslines from Príncipe-signed prodigy Nídia.

For more information head here: http://www.factmag.com/2017/07/24/nidia-principe-fact-mix/

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FACT mix 611 - Nídia (Jul '17)

@dj-nigga-fox-lx-monke comes fresh from his @warp-records debut and preparing for his set at this year's Club to Club festival in Turin, Italy for Bleep Mix #47. He shows us just how vast a percussive landscape the @principepromos sound subsumes. Choosing to keep the tracklisting unknown, your attention is directed fully toward the hypnotic groove. Moments of flash trance, footwork, piano house and dub techno are all pulled out of shape and squashed together into a seriously deep listen, courtesy of the well-stocked record bag of DJ Nigga Fox.

Bleep Mix #47 - DJ Nigga Fox - Club to Club Warm-up Mix

Nídia laces us with a thrilling 30-minute promo mix as part of our deep dive on the Afrodiasporic club sound:  https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3561

RA and foreigner will host Nídia's labelmate, DJ Lycox, for the XFER parties in Los Angeles and Mexico City this weekend.

@nidiasukulbembe

Nídia: An introduction to the Afrodiasporic club sound

Thrilling new directions for the batida sound.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=719

@dj-nigga-fox-lx-monke

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RA.719 Nigga Fox

Read our interview with @nidiasukulbembe here: bit.ly/NidiPod

Groove Podcast 273

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Groove Podcast 273 - Nídia

This month’s Carhartt WIP Radio features PRÍNCIPE (@principepromos), a vibrant record label from Lisbon, Portugal. Established in 2011, the imprint dedicates its work strictly to contemporary electronic music typically from the peripheral living zones of Portugal’s capital. As the label elaborates on its Discogs page: “We want to make sure that the amazing work being produced here, be it house, techno, kuduro, batida, kizomba, funaná, tarrachinha or any other new aesthetic development, will not remain unheard outside of our clubs, cellphones and homes anymore.”

Today almost all PRÍNCIPE artists – such as DJ Marfox, DJ Nigga Fox, Nidia, Niagara and DJ Firmeza – come from Lisbon’s suburbs, where they create dizzying up-tempo kuduro, sensual kizomba, and spunky tarraxinha beats mixed with techno, house and beyond. Together with the four people behind the label – visual artist Márcio Matos; DJ and journalist José Moura; Nelson Gomes, member of the Portuguese experimental leftfield band Gala Drop; and André Ferreira, who takes care of press, promotion and bookings – they have brought PRÍNCIPE’s signature sounds to the world.

For Carhartt WIP Radio, the PRÍNCIPE crew have conducted a mix that showcases their ambitious blend of invigorating, genre-chopping sounds with brand new and still to be released music.

As always, we also sat down to chat with this month’s hosts, with the label’s José Moura and André Ferreira providing a look behind the music. Check the full feature at www.carhartt-wip.com/journal/music.

tracklist:
1.: Blacksea Não Maya - Terror (from Maquina de Vénus)
2.: DJ Bebedera - Tarraxo in Messier 31 (from Verão Dark Hope)
3.: Nídia - Cheirinho (from Badjuda Sukulbembe)
4.: DJ Nigga Fox - Gás Natural (Unreleased)
5.: Niagara - 46 x 92m (from Pais & Filhos)
6.: RS Produções - Reflexão (from Verão Dark Hope)
7.: DJ Lycox - Wildin (Unreleased)
8.: DJ Danifox - Xupetilson (Unreleased)
9.: DJ Marfox - Tchuma   (from Verão Dark Hope)
10.: DJ Firmeza - 174 (Unreleased)
11.: DJ Lycox - Babygirl (from Kyzas do Ly)
12.: Puto Anderson feat. DJ Ninoo - Secrety History (from Verão Dark Hope)
13.: PT Musik - Aplausos (Unreleased)
14.: DJ Kolt - Tarrafoda (from Verão Dark Hope)
15.: Mabookinho - V No Zoo (from Verão Dark Hope)
16.: PML - Manganza (from Pedra de 800 Kg)
17.: A.K.Adrix - Desenhos Animados (Unreleased)
https://www.carhartt-wip.com/journal/music/radio/2020/11/label-feature-principe

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