'Restless' - the new single from Buraka Som Sistema.

Click here to download from iTunes NOW in USA, Canada & Mexico.
Released worldwide with a remix by Julio Bashmore on 30th November 2009.

Annie Mac says: "Their attempt at sounding like David Guetta... personally I think they sound A LOT better!"

Our new track 'Restless' is available to download NOW in the USA, Canada and Mexico, exclusively on iTunes. Click here to download!

This is ahead of our tour - here are the dates, hope to see you there:

31/10 Hard Haunted Mansion, Los Angeles
4/11 Le Poisson Rouge, New York
5/11 Velvet, Mexico City
6/11 La Burbula, Guadalajara
7/11 Noise, Monterrey
8/11 Fun Fun Fun Festival, Austin
12/11 Mayan, Los Angeles
13/11 Casbah, San Diego
14/11 Mezzanine, San Francisco

Europe & the rest of the world - don't worry, we still love you! We'll be releasing the full single internationally on 30th November.

You can listen to an interview with J-Wow, DJ Riot and Conductor on DJ Edu's BBC 1xtra show Destination Africa - we pick out our favourite kuduro tracks!

You can listen again until Sunday, 11th October. To listen just click here.

You can now download Toadally Krossed Out, Toy Selectah, & DJ Sega remixes of IC19 outside of USA/Canada: click here!

IC19 is getting a proper summer release.. turned upside down by our favourite producers and djzzzzzzzzz like A1 Bassline/James Talk/Mikix the Cat/Toadally Crossed out/Toy Selecta/L-VIS 1990/Dj Sega!!

Aparently u can buy all this stuff at digital shops NOW!!!! Check out beatport to see whats up...

The Coachella Days...

Coachella was amazing! Great gig! Great Festival! Great shows! Great After parties!

Our 1st stop was at KCRW radio in LA for a live performance in the morning before driving to Coachella. You can still catch the broadcast of the live performance here: http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb the last band before us was Franz ferdinand... ouch!

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After 10 minutes of technical problems (not our responsibility!!!) we were ON! Coachellllllaaaaaaaa!!

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And the crowd responded exactly how we wanted them to! Thanks!!!

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signing CD's at record store day in the festival...

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Searching for the Black Diamond!!

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After all the "hard" work.. the next days were all about Palm Springs Pool Parties and having FUN!

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San Francisco...

After a couple of days off... and some more Palm Springs Parties.. we headed out to San Francisco for a show at the Rickshaw Stop... Our man Dj Sega from Mad Decent joined the group and the night was Super HOT!

Living the dream.. Highway Motel on the way to San Francisco!!

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Hmmm... Our poster... We were expecting a bigger one! ;)

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Soundchecking at the Rickshaw Stop! oh.. and Lil'John's new shoes!

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Amadora Power...

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1, 2, 3... here we goooooo again!!!!

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Aerobics class of the day by Blaya!

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Our CD at Amoeba Records!!! We're not in the top 20 releases list because it's from March and our CD was only released here on 7th April!!

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Portland/Vancouver/Seattle...

The next 3 days were spent doing show after show.. All of them were DOPE! Vancouver had an extra energy but Seattle had a sold out room going NUTS!

BSS Van.....

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In Portland we found a place to eat the best steak in the world... with striptease in the background.. we could not get anymore pictures.. just the sign!

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Setting up in Vancouver... customizing Rui's gear!

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Blaya gettin ready!!!!

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Dj Sega killing it before we go on.. and making the room Hot as Hell! Vancouveeeeeerrrrr!! check this dude out: http://www.myspace.com/djsegatheblackknight he's doing the whole tour with us...

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The crowd in Vancouver... Kalaf are you ok?

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The crowd getting crazzzyyyy...

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Rob Garza from Thievery Corporation came down to the show! Wasssupp!!

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Getting ready for a radio session in Seattle for KEXP.. search it @ KEXP.org

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We split up in Seattle.. Conductor, Riot and Kalaf took the plane and Lil'Joao, Fred, Artur and Blaya (and our tour manager) had to drive from Seattle to Chicago... this means something like 3500 km's... aka 2 days and 5 hours of DRIIIVINGGG!
While the others stay longer in town...

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Outside Seattle.. This is just the beginning!

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The only activity we were able to do.. Mount Rushmore!

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Buffalo Burger!

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Blaya in Wonderland! Are we on acid? or is that really a giant bunny?

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ok... we needed to get our minds off the road...

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didn't work!

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So, while some have the adventure of an American road trip... others are being tourists!! The Space Needle in Seattle....

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At the Bruce and Brandon Lee Tumbstone – Seattle

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Just Seattle

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This man was the best ever!! He loved our show so much that he gave us free passes for a SPA. U have Free entrance in BSS shows 4ever!!!!

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DAY 1: Arriving early... we have the whole day to wonder the streets of Tokyo.. DAY's OFF are the BOMB!

Classic pic...
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Hotel Check-in... Andro WHAT?!?!?! LOL

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Another classic...
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We went searching for water guns and this is what we found!
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I Hope it says nice things about us...
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OMG! where should we start?
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Where's Kalaf and Conductor?

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Day 2: PRESSPRESSPRESSPRESSPRESS and more
PRESSPRESSPRESS...

Thanks to the Hostess crew (our label here) for
taking good care of us ;)

The Schedule... scary...
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Back to the future!

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The Beautiful cherry blossoms that everyone talks about... one for 1 week in the whole year...

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With verbal.. from the Teryaki Boyz!

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Trying to keep entertained...

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Kalaf is trying to fit in with the Japanese fashion thing!

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End of the day SUPER dinner with the whole Hostess Crew! Playing the Band name game ;) Thanks guys!

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DAY 3:TOKYO show day!!!

we spent the day getting lost, once again, around shibuya... not many pictures were taken...

At the club... Sam the Kid japanese version! u dig?

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super fuckin great show! Thanks Tokyo... we will be back soooon!
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Day 4: Kyoto Show day!

After the Bullet train experience we
Got to Kyoto! Amazing place! Past meets the Future... great vibe,
great history, great FOOD, great crowd, great venue!

The Shark bullet train is coming! WTF!

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Beautiful Kyoto! Chillllllllllll

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Conductor lost in translation trying hard to get some pain killers for his mouth!!! AWÊ
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Meat lovers.. u got to try try BBQ thing in Japan! OMG!

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Great trip!

Thanks to
everyone who came down to the clubs to see us!! Thanks to all the Gan
Ban crew for hooking us up with the amazing shows and taking care of
us on this trip.. first class flight from osaka to tokyo was the
BOMB!!! And thanks to the hostess crew for everything as well.. super
dinner was dope... and we won the band game!

Thanks to
Verbal for doing the shows with us.. your a superstar! and Kentaro!

Cya all at
FUJI ROCK'N'ROLLIN!

Hey!

The long awaited North American release of Black Diamond is upon us!!
April 7th is the magic date!

Click the link to pre order from Amazon here

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001HU946I?ie=UTF8&tag=worsfailabg03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001HU946I

or from Insound

http://www.insound.com/Buraka_Som_Sistema_Black_Diamond__PRE-ORDER_CD/productmain/p/INS53124/


To coincide with our US tour, we are having a 'Sound of Your Community' YouTube Dance Contest. Our Sound of Kuduro video celebrates the music, dance and culture of Angola, but for our trip to North America, WE wanna see YOUR dance moves. We wanna see what your community, culture and customs has to offer when it comes to showing the moves!
The winner will get his or her video played on stage during our North American Tour. The runner-up will receive a customized Buraka Som Sistema skateboard deck and a copy of Black Diamond signed by us

The full details can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/group/burakacontest

Here's some nice things people have said about us!

“It's this intoxicating familiar-otherness of Buraka's half-barked, half-chanted, post-colonial, cross-pollinated, bone-shaking booty music that makes them just about the most exciting live act you could ever wish to see.” - Observer

"...one of the most jaw-droppingly effusive club moments I’ve experienced." - FADER

"...one of the fiercest dance records in recent memory.” - Pitchfork



BURAKA SOM SISTEMA SPRING 2009 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

Apr 17 Indio, CA @ Coachella
Apr 21 San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
Apr 23 Portland, OR @ Rotture
Apr 24 Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
Apr 25 Seattle, WA @ Nectar Lounge
Apr 28 Chicago, IL @ Sonotheque
Apr 29 Toronto, ON @ El Mocambo
Apr 30 Montreal, QC @ Zoobizarre
May 01 Boston, MA @ Harper's Ferry
May 02 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom