Keep Calm And Listen To Tarraxinha by Akwaaba Music published on 2013-03-19T18:42:29Z <p style="text-align: justify;">I'm so excited... OBRIGADO <a href="https://soundcloud.com/dj-marfox" target="_blank">DJ Marfox</a>, for putting together a much needed compilation of some of the best tarraxinhas to come out of Luanda and Lisbon. The story is about to drop for Fader (www.thefader.com/category/columns/lungu-lungu/), so for now, since this is Akwaaba turf, let's just talk crap: forget about Zouk Bass (http://www.enchufada.com/2013/03/18/we-call-it-zouk-bass/) and thank Marfox thoroughly for showing us the light. Tarraxinha does not require moombah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moombahton) type basslines, it's not music to move your body erratically to, it's not music to increase your number of followers on soundcloud. NO. It's music to loosen up your partner before hitting the sack. Zouk bass? Was invented under a different name - tarraxinha - over a decade ago by proper geniuses such as <a href="https://soundcloud.com/dj-znobia" target="_blank">DJ Znobia</a>.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Most of the classics compiled by Marfox were produced in the mid 2000s, in both Lisbon and Luanda. Tarraxinha stemmed from kizomba, which is a slowed down version of semba, the quintessential Angolan genre. As it turns out, slowed down semba, aka kizomba, sounds quite similar to zouk (OK it's more complicated than that, zouk influenced Angolan music and helped shape kizomba). Now tarraxinhas are slowed down kizomba, with much more minimal, often times less melodic production. Or you could say tarraxinha is kind of like zouk without the cheesy R&B vocals. Yet the major difference between tarraxinha and kizomba/zouk is not so much musical, but rather how they are danced. The way to dance tarraxinha is way sleazier than kizomba, which is still proper ballroom dancing. Tarraxar is more about grinding pelvises and offending older people. So when tarraxinhas came up, they got noticed, but for reasons we do not know, after a peak around 2006, tarraxinha production dwindled.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Thanks again to DJ Marfox for shedding light on a genre that remains difficult to know about, because it has not really entered the soundcloud/internet world. Many of the songs on here are 128s, and chances are a better version of the songs never existed, so enjoy them as is: these sound exactly how they are supposed to. If you don't think so, just look for a partner and see what happens.</p> Genre Tarraxinha Contains tracks 01 - Nada de bem - Dj Massacre by Akwaaba Music published on 2013-03-19T18:42:29Z 02 - Tapada - Dj Nervoso by Akwaaba Music published on 2013-03-19T18:42:29Z 03 - Fica Só Comigo (Instrumental) - DJ Znobia by Akwaaba Music published on 2013-03-19T18:42:30Z 04 - Areia - Dj Nervoso by Akwaaba Music published on 2013-03-19T18:42:30Z 05 - Sem Fronteiras - Dj Marfox by Akwaaba Music published on 2013-03-19T18:42:30Z
