congotronics

bazombe trance music from the angola-congo border, transplanted to kinshasa, where, finding it too noisy for traditional instruments to be heard on the streets, musicians amplified the likembé -- a series of resonant metal bars bolted to a wooden sound box-- with microphones made from magnets from abandoned cars-- all ramped up past distortion level...

i can't not move to this...

http://166.70.46.222/tony/Konono_#1_Masikulu.mp3