ARTIST`````VariousALBUM`````Shangaan Electro - New Wave Dance Music From South Africa
GENRE````` Shangaan / Electro / Africa / Dance
YEAR````````2010
HOT HOT HOT:
This is absolutely the freshest and finest new music style I heard in a looong time.
What struck me the most was the production style: basic MIDI samples WITHOUT any swooooshing FX's. A superfast complex African beat with bright and clean basic keyboard sounds and rhythmic vocals make it sound more electronic and minimal than almost all dance/house/minimal/electro crap that's been released like hamburgers in McDonalds these last 10 years.
When in 2010, African underground musicians living in harsh conditions find inspiration and develop a deeply rooted but pure modern dance music it only emphasizes how bland and pathetic the current dance scene actually is but a;lso that NEW music is possible and should be praised. The brightest light in Western dance scene that can stand close to this purity is definitely Dan Deacon.
In the next few months we should expect a gazillion of dance producers producing a fuckillion of Shangaan drum'n'bass mixes with farts over it, a David Guetta "Shangaan Sex Tapes". As one youtuber said: Enjoy the original sound before some douchey white boy sanitizes it and it becomes the next hipster fad.
Tshetsha Boys - Nwa Pfundla
About this release and the Shangaan Electro style
From the Honest Jon's Label release description:
Now Shangaan music is both, rural and urban. We jumped the boundaries by changing that bass into playing with the marimba, that's when we touched the nerves, and now it's all over.
From Guardian:
Scene and heard: Shangaan electro
At 180 bpm, shangaan combines MIDI keyboards with marimba beats, distorted vocal samples and lyrics that Honest Jon's, the record label which is putting out a compilation, described as "African soap operas, tied up with domestic matters and a yearning for the slower life".
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Tracklist:
01. BBC - Ngunyuta Dance (The Shake-Your-Behind Dance)
02. Tshetsha Boys - Nwa Pfundla (Pfundla's Daughter)
03. Mancingelani - Vana Vasesi (My Sister's Children)
04. Zinja Hlungwani - Ntombi Ya Mugaza (Shangaan Woman)
05. BBC - Ngozi (Danger)
06. Zinja Hlungwani - Nwa Gezani (Gezani's Daughter)
07. Tiyiselani Vomaseve - Vanghoma
08. Nka Mwewe - Khulumani (Let's Talk)
09. Tiyiselani Vomaseve - Na Xaniseka (I'm Suffering)
10. Zinja Hlungwani - Nwa Gezani My Love (Gezani's Daughter, My Love)
11. Tshetsha Boys - Uya Kwihi Ka Rose (Rose, Where Are You Going?)
12. Zinja Hlungwani - Thula (So Quiet)
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From the Honest Jon's Label release description:
Now Shangaan music is both, rural and urban. We jumped the boundaries by changing that bass into playing with the marimba, that's when we touched the nerves, and now it's all over.
From Guardian:
Scene and heard: Shangaan electro
At 180 bpm, shangaan combines MIDI keyboards with marimba beats, distorted vocal samples and lyrics that Honest Jon's, the record label which is putting out a compilation, described as "African soap operas, tied up with domestic matters and a yearning for the slower life".
Read more
Tracklist:
01. BBC - Ngunyuta Dance (The Shake-Your-Behind Dance)
02. Tshetsha Boys - Nwa Pfundla (Pfundla's Daughter)
03. Mancingelani - Vana Vasesi (My Sister's Children)
04. Zinja Hlungwani - Ntombi Ya Mugaza (Shangaan Woman)
05. BBC - Ngozi (Danger)
06. Zinja Hlungwani - Nwa Gezani (Gezani's Daughter)
07. Tiyiselani Vomaseve - Vanghoma
08. Nka Mwewe - Khulumani (Let's Talk)
09. Tiyiselani Vomaseve - Na Xaniseka (I'm Suffering)
10. Zinja Hlungwani - Nwa Gezani My Love (Gezani's Daughter, My Love)
11. Tshetsha Boys - Uya Kwihi Ka Rose (Rose, Where Are You Going?)
12. Zinja Hlungwani - Thula (So Quiet)
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