hmm...tbc I am not cat-calling this song, I just think it's pretty
― rob, Friday, 14 August 2020 13:26 (four years ago) link
Much more Heavy K than Sun-EL - it's none other than Mpumi, Miss Mzobe if you’re nasty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OBZw57sn_gMpumi Mzobe ft. Dj SK & Mailo Music • Sekumnandi
Can you hear the sound of that plane or whatever it is taking off?
Also, why can’t we fucking go out and dance anymore!??!
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 20 August 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
will fire this up shortly.as to why we can't dance, do I have some bad news for you...
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 20 August 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
please forks don’t hurt me
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 20 August 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
but as I was gonna say:SKY ROCKETS IN FLIGHT 🚀🚀🚀🚀SEKUMNANDI(GoogleTranslate it!)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 20 August 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
Hypnotic track from last year I’m into right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IRzGlgFk4EInsane Malwela ft. Mtanami & Micky • Beng'hlel Nomuntu Wami
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 21 August 2020 21:59 (four years ago) link
Singer S-Tone has an album out on Sun-El’s label, after his EP last year. Almost all the tracks are produced by Claudio and/or Kenza, there’s only one track with Sun-El himself (not my immediate favourite). There’s some amapiano-leaning tracks as well, a first in EL World, I think. Take “Kamnandzi”, for example:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx0ERueZWOI
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
I accidentally put a different Vico Da Sporo f. Sandile track on my afropop playlist, and it—"Umuhle Ntombi"—just came on and blew me away:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBb8-C8pIEY
"Luthando" is good too of course (I guess I'll have to find time to check out this...2 hr. long album ffs)
― rob, Thursday, 27 August 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
“Umuhle Ntombi” is the only other track I had checked out. It’s good, but I prefer “Luthando”. Listening to his other tracks featuring Sandile now: “Buya” is all about the last two minutes when the harmonies really kick in, “Intokazi Yohlobo” is beautiful triphoppy amapiano, that beat is great. “Noyana” from *the other* album Vico da S released this year is also very very nice (wow at that vibraphone break), and “Ndod’mnyama”, Sandile’s Vico-produced solo single, is weirdly mixed but those muffled dubby handclaps remind me of the Peech Boys’ “Don’t Make Me Wait” (speaking of tracks with unexpected rock guitar!) and now I’m very happy.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
btw Sandile is also on a track on one of the two (sigh) excellent amapiano albums released this year so far by Future Majestics.It really is a shame how much good music is being released on a weekly basis in South Africa alone.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
^^to be clear, this is not meant to be snarky, all this (potentially) great music that is being released within the various SA house genres is a blessing, but it’s quite literally impossible to keep up with
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 August 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
Update: just noticed Vico Da Sporo dropped *yet another album* over the weekend, 81 minutes, 17 tracks, 6 of which with Sandile. Needless to say, I haven’t had time to listen to it yet. Where does he find it?
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 31 August 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
Anyone in need of some Simmy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwoBQ0_1QWQ
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 7 September 2020 10:12 (four years ago) link
This is beautiful too (from last year):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82bL0AqjJlINombila • Inyawo
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 7 September 2020 10:15 (four years ago) link
always more simmy please
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 14:21 (four years ago) link
This is gorgeous in every way but one:
https://youtu.be/zp0xrgdOCgwCassper Nyovest ft. Samthing Soweto • Friday Night
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 September 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link
oh, YouTupaws...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp0xrgdOCgw
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 September 2020 20:07 (four years ago) link
Okay, I will post the other Samthing track on CN’s new album too. There’s less of him this time, but I’ll take every bit of Samthing I can get and Nyovest is less intrusive on his own track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOdtEKK8NnACassper Nyovest ft. Samthing Soweto • Ngwanesu
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 September 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
huh, that guy also has Anthony Hamilton on this album! Unfamiliar with him.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
he’s one of SA’s biggest rappers
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
now that you mention it, i think i remember ngud
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
he’s also on amapiano hits like Kabza’s “Phoyisa” and “Sponono”, and “Monate Mpolaye” by DJ Sumbody.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 07:39 (four years ago) link
Sun-El has a credit on this track on the new Black Motion album - I'm posting the performance on music show Live Amp on SA television:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbfO3iwFrQYBlack Motion ft. Sun-El Musician & Nobuhle • Hosana
(there are also tracks with Simmy, Ami Faku, Tresor and Nokwazi on the album btw, just to name a few)
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Sunday, 11 October 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
Posted this on the amapiano thread, but it fits at least as well here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0YvDXksIw8DJ Lace ft. Khanye • Izint Ezinhle
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 October 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
Mlindo the Vocalist on "Yaz Abantu" is absolutely fucking killing me right now, issa vibehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4afXKoaNIvA
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:07 (three years ago) link
anybody know who the other guy (not Gwamba) providing vocals on this track is?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link
that’s wonderful. according to the YouTube comments the other singer is Masiano. he is also on “Yekela”, that Mlindo track from earlier this year (it’s somewhere upthread).Gwamba himself is from Malawi btw.
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 07:19 (three years ago) link
found all of five more credited features on Spotify, of which I like this recent one the best:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m65hr9-jbC4Meez ft. Masiano & DJ Mdix • Syavana(there are a few more tracks on YouTube, with Meez and others. he’s also a producer, this is a rap track he did, with himself on the hook.)
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 08:37 (three years ago) link
ha, this just in: the new DJ Mdix features Mlindo and is produced by... Masiano:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz5KpadE7WcDJ Mdix ft. Mlindo the Vocalist • Cloud 9
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 08:47 (three years ago) link
But is any of this on a par with “Yaz Abantu”? The answer, I would think, is no, so please to proceed accordingly.
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 08:48 (three years ago) link
(don’t get me wrong, DJ Mdix is great: check “Ngiyazfunela” with Mpumi (2020) and Kaylow’s “Isgubhu” (2017) (both posted on this thread), or the brilliant “Umvulo” with Zanda Zakuza (2016))
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 09:24 (three years ago) link
Good sleuthing, thanks!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
In just less than 24hrs the pre-order of my upcoming album #TTWB will drop with its 3rd single “Never Never ft @nobuhlemusic 16.10.2020#NeverNever #30songs #ttwb pic.twitter.com/q8kePIxbtz— Sun-EL Musician (@sunelmusicianza) October 15, 2020
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Thursday, 15 October 2020 08:01 (three years ago) link
#30songs !!!
New Simmy album on the way as well
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Thursday, 15 October 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
fuckin' a.
both on friday?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 15 October 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
no, Friday it’s just the new Sun-El single. albums are open for pre-order, no release date given yet.
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Thursday, 15 October 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
sorry for causing overexcitement
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Thursday, 15 October 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
still a reason to stay on this cruel planet
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 15 October 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
“Never Never” is lovely, such a gorgeous slow build.
― Tim F, Thursday, 15 October 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
well, here’s your Taking Sides for this Friday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ao-_htTBpkSun-EL Musician ft. Nobuhle • Never Never https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqdvi8AO-04Simmy ft. Da Capo & Sun-El Musician • Emakhaya
(I’m going with Simmy here, for now)
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 16 October 2020 11:03 (three years ago) link
<3 that simmy tune
― nxd, Friday, 16 October 2020 11:58 (three years ago) link
now listening to “Never Never” less cursorily, and yes, while not nearly as immediate as the Simmy track it’s gorgeous in its understatedness. the way everything swells up with the organ towards the 4-minute mark and then culminates in those horn blasts, wow!(sure, take this out of context if you must)
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 16 October 2020 12:40 (three years ago) link
both good but i especially like "emakhaya"
― ufo, Friday, 16 October 2020 13:04 (three years ago) link
Emakhaya is amazing
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 16 October 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
they’re both amazing, is where I’m at right now
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 16 October 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
Simmy, Tugela Fairy (Made Of Stars), 16 tracks, out Nov 6Sun-El Musician, To The World And Beyond, 31 (!) tracks, out Dec 4
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 16 October 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
Nobuhle live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Om1iPPfex4
(the first song hasn't been released yet)
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Sunday, 18 October 2020 20:41 (three years ago) link
i think i might prefer "never never" for now! but they're both essential and i can't wait for their albums
― dyl, Sunday, 18 October 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
both gorgeous. this and the rolling afropop thread have opened me up to the best new stuff since I’ve been on ilx - thanks!
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 18 October 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link