Reggaetón's self-proclaimed king tries his hand at another strain of urban dance music on "Danza Kuduro," from his forthcoming compilation album "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans." Kuduro's high-speed, eminently danceable rhythms originated in Angola in the '80s, found their way to Portugal and were most recently popularized by ghetto-tech act Buraka Som Sistema [1]. Portuguese artist Lucenzo reworks his own "Vem Dançar Kuduro" for this collaboration with Don Omar [2], who adds star power and Spanish lyrics that should broaden the song's international audience. The propulsive beat is laced with crowd-pleasing electric accordion runs, over which Don Omar sings and raps about a simple yet evergreen concept: dancing up a storm. The song wisely shifts him toward more tropical-leaning material-a move all too familiar in reggaetón's post-boom era-while letting him continue to explore new sounds and maintain his hold over Latin dancefloors around the world
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