In Session: DJ Marfox

The club music that DJ Marfox makes and plays is as hot as it gets.

Charging in at upwards of 140bpm, it shimmys and shakes and will get your body moving accordingly. He calls it Lisbon Kuduro, a take on the Angolan sound native to the housing projects that lie on the periphery of the Portugese capital.

These projects have given birth to a number of artists, including DJ Firmeza, DJ Lilocox and Blacksea Não Maya, who all specialise in a modern style of Afro-Portugese dance music (which also takes cues from batucada, batida and tarraxinha) and release via Lisbon's Príncipe.

The label has been crucial in introducing the world to these musicians and now you'll see them tearing around Europe, bringing the heat to major underground events like CTM, Unsound, FWD>>, Clock Strikes 13 and Distortion. They also keep it real back home, at Príncipe's regular party in Lisbon.

Indeed, the imprint takes its name from Príncipe, an island off the west coast of Africa where Marfox's family are from. He was behind its first release – 2011's 'Eu Sei Quem Sou' EP – and is hailed as one of the OGs of this particular movement, with contemporaries DJ Nigga Fox, DJ Liofox and Dadifox all paying homage to him via their artist names.

Marfox's name first began to light up the projects in 2006, when he had tracks included on 'DJ's Do Guetto Vol.1', a sprawling compilation of tracks made by a bevy of different producers (including the influential DJ Nervoso, a scene godfather who is also a descendant of the island of Príncipe and helped Marfox learn to produce). His ascent has been slow and steady ever since, releasing a small but nonetheless powerful collection of records on Enchufada, Lit City Trax and Warp (on which he was part of the Lisbon-centric 'Cargaa' series).

Perhaps his rise would be accelerated if this music were accessible in the traditional sense (there are few vocals, bar hype-inducing loops of words like "Go!" and the productions are always raw and uber banging) but that doesn't really matter. Marfox has been a huge influence on his city and leads a pack of artists barely into their 20s.

He returns this month to Príncipe with a new EP titled 'Chapa Quente'. The six-tracker contains his best work yet, his pounding production style emboldening the kinetic rhythms that he summons at will. His celebratory In Session is packed with his own work as well as that of his mentor, Nervoso and a few other key heads, including DJ Firmeza. Fire it up right now.

'Chapa Quente' is out April 14 via Príncipe

1 - Swaramgami - DJ Marfox

2 - More Bith - DJ Mauro Shiny

3 - Linha - Dj Joao Linho

4 - Tumba - DJ Nervoso

5 - Lunga Lunga - DJ Nervoso

6 - Hoy - DJ N.k & DJ Nervoso

7 - Ghetto Sound Of Lisbon - DJ Marfox & DJ N.k

8 - Terra Batida - DJ Marfox

9 - 2685 - DJ Marfox

10 - Voodoo Sound (Africa) - DJ Marfox

11 - Tempera (Remix) - DJ Kilamu

12 - Matumbo - DJ N.K

13 - Come To Your Senses ( Remix) - DJ Marfox

14 - Cobra Preta - DJ Marfox

15 - Koffi Brandao Percusao - DJ Firmeza

16 - ??? - DJ Firmeza

17 - Unsound - DJ Marfox

18 - Rapika Funana - DJ Marfox

19 - Kassubody Funana ( Remix ) - DJ Matabaya & Kuimba

20 - Un Bes Bai - DJ Marfox