Having won the MTV VMA for best Portuguese act following the release of their second album Black Diamond, Buraka Som Sistema are on the prowl in bringing credible urban world music to the masses. They’ve identified collaborators MIA, Diplo and Switch, Kano and Hot Chip as the metaphorical musical magpies that they are, and they join me on the first Eleanor Conway Presents: Podcast in association with music.virgin.com to share their musical inspirations behind their sound - the sound of kuduro.
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Not content with churning out podcasts, those lovely Aussies have now unleashed a vodcast on us unsuspecting festival go-ers to whip us up in to a bit of a frenzy about the upcoming Australia VFestivals. It’s a bit of a psychadelic trip through the sights and sounds on offer in just over a month’s time. […]
Those canny Aussies have only gone and unleashed another genius mash up of a festival podcast - free to download from Feedburner. Expertly spliced tunes from the diverse lineup lie together like the strange and beguiling bedfellows they are. Such skillful DJ dexterity manages to slip in the Daft Punk-style disco beats of Cut […]
Preparations are apace for the very imminent Australian VFestivals and to get you all in to the groove the rather fabulous and creative Aussie types have produced a snazzy little podcast. Not since Too Many DJs has such hitherto disparate tunes been spliced, sliced and mashed up to create the ultimate in eclectic […]


