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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIoZqptMQxc tuki dancer]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIoZqptMQxc tuki dancer]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y57IAjFh2ek tuki dancer girls]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y57IAjFh2ek tuki dancer girls]
*[http://abstractor.net/ Abstractor.net The Official Website of a project in which the best djs of this genre were part]


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Revision as of 01:17, 8 April 2018

Raptor house (many times called as Changa tuki) is a life-style, dance and music genre derived from Electronic music that originated in Caracas, Venezuela in early-1900s and it was a strong trend and present in parties until the late-2000s. The Changa culture was a mainstream between the people of Venezuela along with other genres such as reggaeton, salsa, emo and the rest of the international scene. Its dancers and supporters are known as tuki(s). The dance of it is a style of ghetto dance.

They had a particular style of clothing in which they mostly wore tight red pants, flannels, caps that almost covered their eyes, nike shoes in the style of the jordan, and were painted with hydrogen peroxide their whiskers and the tip of the hair. An urban culture that in its great majority was related to the poor classes and especially to the trickery and a kind of thug. The creators of this style and the greatest djs were DJ Baba and DJ Irvin, other djs that could be mentioned were Pacheko, Pocz. Of the most remembered dancers we can mention Elber El Maestro among others.

Portuguese Buraka Som Sistema liked the changa tuki and decided to play several songs of this style and also compose. American Scoop DeVille also expressed how he liked this movement saying "he has developed a true passion for this".[1]

The most famous meeting place in Caracas where the tuki music was danced and there were good djs of the genre was Adrena.

Also many people at that time linked the tuki word offensively and that most of the Tukis were really Venezuelan style-thugs.

  1. ^ documentary film: Quién Quiere Tuki?, MOSTRO Contenidos (Youtube) {{citation}}: Text "Who Wants Tuki?" ignored (help)