Batida is really the name of an album and project from Angolan/Portuguese DJ Pedro Coquenão (also known as DJ Mpula) in which Coquenão combines samples from vintage Angolan tracks from the 1970s with modern electronic dance music, a blend that has been described as "the wildest Angolan street party." The Batida project began as a radio show promoting new African music, but Coquenão expanded the concept to include a multimedia whirlwind of music, dance, photography, and digital graphics, complete with dancers and percussionists and whatever else Coquenão felt like tossing into the mix, until Batida became a show and force of its own. A debut album of the whole deal, simply called Batida, was released by the U.K.'s Soundway Records in the spring of 2012.