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Michael Barrow writes on Buraka Som Sistema, a Brazilian group bringing the spicy Latin beats of the south to the great white north.

BRINGING THE WORLD TO THE WORLD

Buraka Som Sistema’s Global Dancefloor Dialogue

“We are now in the last months of the first decade of the 21st century and I can’t help but wonder which musical trend the 00s will be remembered for. Among other things, the 80s had punk rock, metal and great synth-pop, and we could easily associate 90s with grunge, college rock and the rise of rap. What of the 00s? I’d like to think that in the future when we think of this past decade, at least in terms of music, we think of it as the decade that brought the world to the world…”