KU BO is the exciting new project by Vienna based bass-meister Stereotyp. Passionate for bass music of all forms, Stereotyp fuses his sonic low-end knowledge with various pan-African sounds from ancient grooves to future Afro. Dark and sexy, with gutter drenching basslines and frenzy beats, KU BO is the genre busting, club ready, voodooesque side of Stereotyp.
After four EPs on Man Recordings and a handful of highly acclaimed remixes for artists such as Schlachthofbronx, Adam Sky or Daniel Haaksman labels on such labels like Mad Decent or Exploited, KU BO now proudly presents his debut album. It features the best cuts from his Eps plus various hot new tracks.
Strong on the vocal tip, KU BO invited various singers from across the Southern hemisphere to grace his beats. „Kaggua" features Ugandian singer Sarah Tshila (
www.tshila.com) singing enchanted over a mad Kuduro inspired beat. In 2007, BBC world service named Tshila as one of the best 20 unsigned artists in a talent search named „The Next Big Thing“. Her contribution on „Kaggua“ proves her amazing voice talent, which fuses the rich musical and lyrical traditions of her people with concious hip hop rhymes – in Ugandan language.
„Lem Lem“ features Eritrean singer Sara Workneh rhyming over a Kuduro beat that would bring every Angolan dancehall to the boil. With it´s heavy beat programming, „Lem Lem“ is pure electro-vodoo!
São Paulo born and Vienna raised Joyce Muniz is on the microphone on „Boha“, „Parabens“, „And You“ and „Uepa“, fronting fierce Portugese rhymes over the mad beats of Stereotyp.
On „Tsu Bo“Anbuley is on the mike, a Ghana bred and Vienna raised MC with model looks, who sings in GA, one of the many languages spoken in the capitol of Ghana.
The cover of the album, simply titled „Ku Bo“, is marked by the red, the black and the green, the colours of the Pan African flag, which was designed by Marcus Garvey. This flag symbolizes the struggle for the unification and liberation of African people both in the homeland as well as the diaspora. The "red" stands for the blood that unites all people of African ancestry, "black" represents the color of the skin of the people of Africa, and "green" stands for the rich land of Africa. KU BO chose the African tri-colore as a symbol shaping black and African identities worldwide.
Add the mad beats of Ku Bo on top and you have a 21st Afro-Tec album
that is in no way traditionalist but only looks into one direction: The future.