Kassav'
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Aug 30, 2026
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It took the traditional rhythms of Belé and Carnival and boldly blended them with disco, funk, soul, and brand-new electronic instruments.
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And we can't talk about zouk without talking about the legendary band Kassav'
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You really can't
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... formed in 1979.
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Sure.
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How do you take a rigid grid-based 1980s synthesizer or drum machine and make it play a fluid, living, breathing Caribbean polyrhythm?
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That was the absolute studio genius of Kassav'.
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How'd they do it?