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| | Artist : VA | |
| | Album : Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South | |
| | Label : Honest Jons | |
| | Cat. No. : HJRCD52 | |
| | Genre : Ethnic/New Wave Source : WEB MP3 | |
| | Quality : 320kbps/44.1khz/Joint Stereo Size : 155.60 MB | |
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| ª http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=25658 ª |
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| | Ask us about Shangaan Electro a week ago and we'd ask you to | |
| | speak slower. Ask us this week and we'll rave about one of the | |
| | most astounding records we've heard this year. The erstwhile and | |
| | intrepid ears of Honest Jon's Mark Ainley and Hardwax/Basic | |
| | Channel legend Mark Ernestus have been following this niche style | |
| | from Soweto, SA, for a hot minute, long enough anyway to pick out | |
| | twelve extraordinary examples of 180bpm, marimba-laden, | |
| | afro-dance diamonds hewn from rickety drum machines and keyboards | |
| | shaped into dazzling fillips of pure dance energy. We almost | |
| | couldn't believe our ears on first listen, or the tenth. It was | |
| | perhaps only when we witnessed the accompanying videos on youtube | |
| | that it started to settle into place, watching liquid hipped | |
| | Shangaan dancers scuttle and stomp like folk possessed by | |
| | something untold but completely comprehendible. It's not a large | |
| | punt to draw distinctions between this and Chicago footwurk or | |
| | Caribbean Soca styles, from the high tempo velocity to use of | |
| | basic equipment all deployed with the intention of eliciting | |
| | faster and more furious dance moves from the participants. | |
| | Essentially this is a continuation of traditional styles, only | |
| | plugged in at the studio of Nozinja Music Productions to become | |
| | utterly electrified and electrifying. But these aren't simply | |
| | instrumental rhythms, they're also songs with passionate, soul | |
| | wrenching vocals and head-rushingly sweet synth melodies. Four | |
| | exemplary contributions from the scene's lynchpin Zinja Hlungwani | |
| | are worth the entry price alone; from the gripping hypertension | |
| | of 'Ntombi Ya Mugaza' to the warbling duet of synthesized and | |
| | human soul in 'Nwa Gezani My Love', or the alien harmonics of | |
| | 'Nwa Gezani', you're paying to experience a mesmerizing sound | |
| | that you simply can't hear anywhere outside of Limpopo or low-res | |
| | youtube clips. Nozinja is responsible for the breakneck speed of | |
| | Shangaan Electro, responding to public demand for faster rhythms | |
| | since opening his studio in 2005, even creating "boy bands" like | |
| | the boiler-suited and clown mask-wearing Tshetsha Boys and | |
| | producing for the rest of the artists included here. To be fair, | |
| | this music is still a totally niche prospect, but initial | |
| | reactions from friends we would never expect to like it have been | |
| | as immediate as the music itself and there's no denying this will | |
| | be one of the years most lauded albums among adventurous | |
| | listeners. This is genuinely some of the most exciting music | |
| | you'll hear this year, and alongside the Footwork/Juke craze | |
| | currently taking hold, you'll have heard little like it before. | |
| | ESSENTIAL PURCHASE! | |
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| | Tracklisting: | |
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| | 01. BBC - Ngunyuta Dance 5:34 | |
| | 02. Tshetsha Boys - Nwampfundla 4:38 | |
| | 03. Mancingelani - Vana Vasesi 5:30 | |
| | 04. Zinja Hlungwani - Ntombi Ya Mugaza 5:32 | |
| | 05. Zinja Hlungwani - N'wagezani My Love 6:30 | |
| | 06. Tiyiselani Vomaseve - Vanghoma 5:11 | |
| | 07. BBC - Ngozi 5:24 | |
| | 08. Zinja Hlungwani - N'wagezani 4:48 | |
| | 09. Tiyiselani Vomaseve - Naxaniseka 5:47 | |
| | 10. Tshetsha Boys - Uya Kwihi Ka Rose 5:24 | |
| | 11. Nkata Mawewe - Khulumani 5:01 | |
| | 12. Zinja Hlungwani - Thula 5:13 | |
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