Sun-El's new album African Electronic Dance Music is out today, a little more palatable than the last one at "only" one hour & 3 minutes. The first four and last two tracks on initial contact seem like the highlights
― monotony, Friday, 5 November 2021 00:51 (two years ago) link
ooh thanks! surprised this isn't getting more attention...
― Indexed, Friday, 5 November 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
The whole thing is great.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 6 November 2021 01:17 (two years ago) link
need to listen to it asap
honestly, i slept on the last one. it's definitely way too long, but i really like disc 2 and disc 1 has several great tracks too
― dyl, Saturday, 6 November 2021 02:23 (two years ago) link
I love him but his work is so samey it can be hard to pick out highlights. Not really a criticism but if I’m enthusing about him, I’ll still send friends to Akanamali first.
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 6 November 2021 13:20 (two years ago) link
Or Emakhaya. Ok there’s a few…
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 6 November 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link
yeah the last album definitely suffered from being nearly 3 hours, i'm sure it would have been much more enjoyable if you cut it down to the best hour or less, but getting to that point would be a real challenge
new one seems better on first listen, though the vocal tracks are notably stronger than the instrumentals
― ufo, Sunday, 7 November 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link
love the album all the way thru
tho he has something of a signature aesthetic i don't know if it's quite fair to call his music samey. there are a few tracks on here that i would not have guessed were by him if they'd been in the middle of a mix/comp or something
― dyl, Monday, 8 November 2021 00:26 (two years ago) link
it's only really an issue over the course of a 3 hour album
― ufo, Monday, 8 November 2021 00:30 (two years ago) link
The number of tracks seems to come from a place of generosity, though, rather than “lack of quality control”
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 8 November 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
Three quarters of this - the first half and last few songs - are excellent. "Amateki," "Higher," and "Bestfriend" especially. "Amateki" is an immediate mood boost. "Higher" has a spiritual quality to it and is one of my favorite tracks of the year. The third-quarter of the album, which consists of instrumental afro-house tracks "Jozi", "Spiritual Bomb," and "Alone" I wish was about 10 minutes shorter.
― Indexed, Monday, 8 November 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
https://ra.co/features/3968
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 05:40 (two years ago) link
still the best thing Sun-El has been involved in this year:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k05g9_Yo7fIMiči ft. Sun-El Musician • Respond
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 3 September 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
one of my favs ❤️
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Saturday, 3 September 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
Sun-El doesn’t make amapiano (although some remarks and posts here and elsewhere suggest otherwise), but I’m hoping this poll I created might get the amapiano party started again on ILM, because we’re seriously logging… lagging behind. here’s your invitation - I hope you will all participate:drowning in a blissful ocean of log drums and keys: 🎹🎹 amapiano a-z 🎹🎹 an ilm poll
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 5 September 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
not Sun-El, but this is a production by fellow Afro House adept (and sometimes collaborator) Thakzin:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp3o_c2pCtANana Atta ft. DJ Thakzin • Libalele(I haven’t listened to the rest of the Emakhosini EP it’s from yet)
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 17 September 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
^^^ very good little EP. made me realise how little afro house I’ve been listening to in the past year or so (post-“Osama” perhaps?) - too much piano, too little time basically.I loooove “Nyoni”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO3W3YUH6zI
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 18 September 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTYV_8ef0a8Msaki ft. Sun-El Musician • Pata Pata Saguquka
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 30 September 2022 07:31 (one year ago) link
Hmmm, think I recognize the chorus of that from somewhere else? Possible cover?
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 30 September 2022 09:56 (one year ago) link
are you in jest, sir?https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/sa-miriam-makeba-featured-new-whisky-ad
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 30 September 2022 10:53 (one year ago) link
from the new Murumba Pitch album (which is otherwise firmly and delectably in the piano camp): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcJsdfOkr-oMurumba Pitch ft. Ami Faku & Sun-El Musician • Esikhathini
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 4 November 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
not sun-el, altho a callaborator...has anyone listened to karyendasoul's 'we live 4 our music'? i havent really stopped listening to it for the last month
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Saturday, 24 February 2024 22:06 (two months ago) link
i dont know whats my favorite on this, but my shortlist is "juba", "mngani wam", "umthandazo", "umoya, "jacaranda" (which is half the album).
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkxvR5h7irQsPpq-AHY7QE3fb9KJ8bhxG
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Saturday, 24 February 2024 22:08 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31d8F0v4VWo
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Saturday, 24 February 2024 22:09 (two months ago) link
and not for nothing his collabs with zakes bantwini have been incredible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mu3D6FqyYw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_O5pHq6myw
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Saturday, 24 February 2024 22:14 (two months ago) link