Since all eyes are locked in at South Africa nowadays, we wanted to present some of the great club-music South Africa ( and Africa in general) has to offer at the moment!
DJ Zhao has compiled an incredible mixtape of African and African-inspired dance music called “Ukulwa”. ““Ukulwa” translates to “war” in Zulu, and rather than divorcing diverse sounds such as kwaito and kuduro from their political context, he weaves the tape together with samples of people praising Mandela and giving empowering paeans to freedom, ensuring that even as we dance, we remember what we’re celebrating. In Zhao’s own words: “South Africa is surely rising as a proud modern nation, even as we rejoice in these blissful rhythms, we must remember this war, and both continue, and continue to be inspired by, this struggle against domination, against injustice.””
Also throwing in a mix featuring more South African Kwaito music, by Moroka (the newest member of The Secousse Sound System from London). This mix contains older and newer Kwaito and it’s a good one! (Perfect soundtrack for the World Cup)
This time it’s ZZK‘s El Remelón who’s mixing it up in the newest ZZK Mixtape! It gives the listener a taste of what’s coming in El Remelón’s next EP and album, which is being released later this year. This is what ZZK says about his mixtape:
“El Remelón has us dancing to his trademark slow cumbias, later guiding us along new electro reggaetons that defy the forces of gravity & finally leading us to his new dubsteps & latin kuduros with mega bass…all without losing his hypnotic & groovy essence.”
Just discovered this amazing video to an EP I have been feeling a lot lately. It is the latest EP from Douster entitled Triassic. In this EP – released on ZZK records – Douster goes back to prehistoric times, imagines the soundtrack of a life during the Triassic era. Raw rhythms, primitive melodies and cavemen chants that sound from a world when the land masses were connected, shedding borders and grooving primitively to his strain of electronic music
The netbased label Akwaaba Music is known for signing talented, African musicians and giving the whole world the chance to hear it. They recently released a kuduro compilation-album featuring tracks from artists from the Angolian capitol, Luanda. Some of the artists featured on the album are known Kuduro-artists like Zoca Zoca, Noite e Día and Os Mais Potentes.
Here’s a minimix from the album, featuring bangers from Vagabanda, Puto Prata, Fofando and Saborosa and Zoca Zoca!
