Tag: Luaty Beirão

• IKOQWE’s Angolan rap album for Crammed Discs – ‘The Beginning, the Medium, the End and the Infinite’ is out now – Batida and Ikonoklasta further affirm their electronic African mutations

  Don’t miss the debut album by IKOQWE (pronounced ee-kok-weh) – out now on Crammed Discs. The Angola-born, Lisbon-raised artist Batida ranks among the leaders of the new wave of African electronic music, here he is partnered by Luaty Beirão, aka Ikonoklasta, the Angolan rapper turned iconic activist. IKOQWE’s inspiration comes from old school hip hop,…

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  March 20, 2021

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  Angola, Batida, Crammed Discs, Ikonoklasta, IKOQWE, Luaty Beirão, rap

• Batida’s new project is IKOQWE and their debut single is ‘VaiVai’ – Portuguese bass music with roots in Angola

  Debut IKOQWE single VaiVai is a bass loaded track with roots in Angola, Portugal, for the Beating Heart label. The accompanying video see’s the duo, masked with make-shift antennae and riding through the desert in a Candongueiro (Angolan Taxi): IKOQWE is shortform for Ikonoklasta (“Iconoclast”) – the alias for rapper and iconic activist, Luaty Beirão…

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  March 11, 2020

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  Afla, Angola, Batidia, BBC 6 Music, Beating Heart, Gilles Peterson, Iconoclast, Ikonoklasta, IKOQWE, Luaty Beirão, Pedro Coquenão, Portugal, Raz, Raz & Afla, Vaivai