Kuduro producer DJ N.K. signs to Lit City Trax for debut album

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    Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 21:15
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  • The Lisbon producer's DJ Do Ghetto full-length is out in mid-July.
  • Kuduro producer DJ N.K. signs to Lit City Trax for debut album image
  • Lit City Trax has signed the Portuguese kuduro producer DJ N.K. for an album, DJ Do Ghetto, out on July 15th. DJ N.K. is a pioneering architect of Lisbon's Afro-Portuguese electronic sound, which incorporates genres like kuduro and tarraxhina. In the mid-2000s he founded the DJ's Do Guetto crew alongside DJ Marfox, one of the scene's most prominent producers, as well as DJs Nervoso, Pausas, Fofuxo and Jesse. (In 2013, Principe Discos reissued the group's self-titled album from 2006, calling it a "crucial landmark in the history of Portuguese dance music.") The global club music label Lit City Trax—run by London-based DJ and producer J-Cush—will release N.K.'s debut album in a couple weeks. DJ Do Ghetto includes tracks with longtime collaborators DJ Marfox and DJ Nervoso. It follows a mixtape from Jersey club producer DJ TiGa, which landed on Lit City Trax in April. For a primer on Afro-portuguese club music, check out Ryan Keeling's 2014 report on the "ghetto sound of Lisbon." Listen to the album opener "Black Magic."
    Tracklist 01. Black Magic 02. Punched Horn 03. Ghetto Sound Of Lisbon (feat. DJ Marfox) 04. Urban Mafia 05. Zuguza 06. Tribalistic Face 07. Orixas Groove 08. Matumbina 09. Hoy (feat. DJ Nervoso) 10. Sambapito 11. Caipirinha 12. Fiquei Diesel Lit City Trax will release DJ Do Ghetto on July 15th, 2016.
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