{"id":3923,"date":"2016-09-12T21:32:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T20:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/va-chapa-quente-cd\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:53:32","slug":"mamboslevis","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/mamboslevis\/","title":{"rendered":"V\/A &#8211; Mambos Levis D&#8217;Outro Mundo &#8211; CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To accompany the release of this landmark 23-track compilation, <strong>Pr\u00edncipe<\/strong> shared an excerpt from a 1973 interview with Cape Verdean political thinker and activist Am\u00edlcar Cabral. \u201cAs to strategy,\u201d said the anti-colonial radical just months before his assassination, \u201cwe learned in the struggle; some people think that we adopted a foreign method, or something like this. But we bettered our struggle in the culture of our people\u2026 supported by our people which is the first and main condition: the support of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cabral\u2019s ideals of interdependent support and ground-up social change help to illustrate the<strong> Pr\u00edncipe<\/strong> picture. For this, their debut compilation, founders of the scene like Marfox and Nervoso present work alongside newer figures like Safari and Dadifox. The tightly locked grooves, clipped Afrobeat syncopations and raw cut-and-paste sampling are all emblematic of \u201cthe Pr\u00edncipe sound\u201d, but the stylistic range on display here paints a more rounded picture \u2013 an ensemble cast of outsiders no longer defined by hallmark idiosyn- crasies, growing into their own ever-evolving method and dismantling influences to form a culture which is theirs.<\/p>\n<p>Take the minimal stutterings of K30\u2019s Hora do FL, the heavy tarraxinha shuffle of Babaz Fox and DJ Bebedera\u2019s collaboration, the typically euphoric clomp of Marfox\u2019s Swaramgami \u2013 there is a diversity on show which represents an evolution in the ethos and a broadening of the Pr\u00edncipe palette. It\u2019s calmer at times, and the sequencing plays out in a way which makes the upper limits of the sound far less jarring than it can sometimes be. Essentially though, the widening of the sound\u2019s radius with such a continually high quality is a reflection of their main condition \u2013 the support and representation of the people.<\/p>\n<p>Words by<strong> Duncan Harrison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pr\u00edncipe Discos<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Pr\u00edncipe Discos<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Take the minimal stutterings of K30\u2019s Hora do FL, the heavy tarraxinha shuffle of Babaz Fox and DJ Bebedera\u2019s collaboration, the typically euphoric clomp of Marfox\u2019s Swaramgami \u2013 there is a diversity on show which represents an evolution in the ethos and a broadening of the Pr\u00edncipe palette. It\u2019s calmer at times, and the sequencing plays out in a way which makes the upper limits of the sound far less jarring than it can sometimes be. Essentially though, the widening of the sound\u2019s radius with such a continually high quality is a reflection of their main condition \u2013 the support and representation of the people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/principepromos\/sets\/p015-v-a-mambos-levis-doutro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u25ba CLICK HERE TO LISTEN<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[],"product_tag":[995],"class_list":{"0":"post-3923","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_tag-principe-discos","7":"product_shipping_class-cd","8":"pa_artist-various_artists","9":"pa_genre-beats","10":"pa_genre-electronics","11":"pa_genre-kuduro","12":"pa_label-principe-discos","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}