Os Buraka Som Sistema puseram toda a gente do Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival aos pulos, na passada 6ª Feira. A Associated Press (AP) disse que foi a actuação mais enérgica do primeiro dia do festival. A agência cita Lil`John (João Barbosa) a dizer que «oitenta por cento das pessoas nunca ouviram o álbum». Diz o músico que esta foi a razão para que fossem introduzidos «pequenos samples». Entre eles, o ressuscitado «Rythm Is A Dancer», dos Snap. A AP descreve os Buraka Som Sistema como a maior banda portuguesa. DJ Riot acrescenta que o grupo é uma espécie de «Britney Spears portuguesa». Kalaf prefere chamar à banda «os Chemical Brothers de Portugal». Riot explicou ainda que «os Buraka iniciaram algo que deveria ter aparecido há dez anos», referindo-se à assimilação do kuduro.


Take note musicians: When playing the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, don't play your album, play to your audience. The Portuguese group Buraka Som Sistema had a massive crowd leaping in the air by the end of their performance in what was perhaps the most energized reaction of the three-day desert music fest's first day.
The band looped in familiar bits like Snap's "Rhythm is a Dancer" with their own little-known songs, a blend of the Angolan techno genre kuduru with international dance influences.
"Eighty percent of the people out there never heard the album before," said 29-year-old DJ Joao Barbosa, who goes by Lil John. "So it wouldn't make sense to do 10 songs from the album, four minutes each. The way we discovered to get people involved is to introduce little samples, little fun things, that we just throw in. That's kind of the secret. Buraka is now the biggest act in their home country. "We are pretty much the Britney Spears of Portugal right now," said Rui Pite, 30, who goes by DJ Riot. The group's lead vocalist, 31-year-old MC Kalaf, interrupted. "I don't like that," he said. "We are the Chemical Brothers of Portugal."

Fontes:AP (Associated Press), Disco Digital