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The runaway success of the Konono N 1 album has given worldwide exposure to the strange and spectaar electro-traditional mixtures which are being concocted in the suburbs of Kinshasa, Congo. Hot on the footsteps of Congotronics 1, here comes a fresh selection of even more amazing sounds, courtesy of no less than 6 electro-traditional bands from Kinshasa, which have all been especially recorded and produced by Crammed's Vincent Kenis. These bands all draw on traditional trance music, to which they have incorporated heavily-distorted sounds generated by DIY amplification of their instruments... just like Konono N 1, except that the instrumentation, timbres and rhythms used by these bands are relatively diverse: the trademark electrified thumb pianos and megaphones are joined by an array of distorted drums, swirling guitars and hypnotic balafons. The Congotronics 2 album also includes a full-length (40 minute) DVD based on material filmed by Vincent Kenis while he recorded these bands in Kinshasa.