That live session I posted is/s/a vibe btw (I hadn’t checked it before)
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 29 September 2019 13:48 (four years ago) link
To bring the thread back to Sun-El, these are some recent tracks he produced:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_dlUT_xUIwSino Msolo • Intombi Yamhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIwAqCUu1CYSino Msolo • Ndikhetha Lowahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap6N67NcUuMMthunzi ft. Sun-El • Insimbihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAFKjNzjT1IAmi Faku ft. Sun-El • Ndivulele
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 08:48 (four years ago) link
oh wow "Ndivulele" is incredible and "Intombi Yam" and "Ndikhetha Lowa" are lovely too
thank you very much for staying on top of all of this
― ufo, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 11:16 (four years ago) link
ta, ufo. That Ami Faku track is from her album, which I have yet to listen to in full.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 11:38 (four years ago) link
yeah, great stuff!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 3 October 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
Lots of new South African stuff of potential interest to the followers of this thread was posted yesterday on the Rolling Afropop etc. thread. More or less arbitrarily, I’m posting this one here. More of the same, you might say, but it’s all (so) good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_ksYAZsuLIMFR Souls ft. DJ Maphorisa, ShaSha & Kabza De Small • Love You Tonight
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 12 October 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
samthing album is so beautiful
― nxd, Saturday, 12 October 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
yes, it’s like every time I’m playing it a new song starts revealing itself. today it happened with “Nodoli”.
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 12 October 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
On the cover of the Rolling Stone (well, not quite).
― breastcrawl, Monday, 14 October 2019 07:10 (four years ago) link
Is it too early to call all of this a beauty spree?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-rV1PZCGmASha Sha ft. Samthing Soweto • Abondaba(from a forthcoming EP? album? apparently - I posted her (and Maphorisa & Kabza’s) amapiano cover of “Sing It Back” on the Moloko thread)
― breastcrawl, Friday, 18 October 2019 07:21 (four years ago) link
latin beats now! would love it if amapiano bodied into that market.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 18 October 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
Another Sha Sha beauty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp0g1BwWJMY
Sha Sha ft. DJ Maphorisa & Kabza De Small • Tender Love
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 27 October 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
From Amanda Black’s new album:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENgHVn9clu8Amanda Black ft. Ami Faku • Khumbula
― breastcrawl, Monday, 28 October 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
really like "khumbula", will have to check out the album
― ufo, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 03:04 (four years ago) link
Sha Sha/ShaSha is on all the good tracks these days, and Blossom, her 8-track debut EP, is absolutely wonderful. Apart from the tracks already posted upthread, I’m in love with the three songs in the middle, “Emazulwini”, “Mutare” and “Water”.
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 2 November 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
Yeah, really lovely ep! Kinda love the Moloko cover.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 3 November 2019 21:33 (four years ago) link
A year on, the Simmy album is still as magical as ever.
“Hamba Jumba” is the track that has secretly become my favourite: http://www.youtube.com/1srBiDlE9rE
Actually, “Nawe” has a video now, which is nice of course, but I’d love to hear something new from her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7jB36jPcUQ
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 14 November 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
“Hamba Jumba” again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1srBiDlE9rE
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 14 November 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
that’s “Hamba JUBA”. doing really nicely here...
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 14 November 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
yeh my personal fav but what a record
― nxd, Friday, 15 November 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
it really is. Would love to hear she has something new coming out before 2020...
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 November 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
finally got around to the Sha Sha EP (it's long enough to be an album really) and it's fantastic as expected
― ufo, Saturday, 16 November 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link
The Blossom EP might top all my year lists. Her voice is amazing. And I still can't get enough of Kabza de Small's productions.
― Nabozo, Sunday, 17 November 2019 12:49 (four years ago) link
Mutare is in Shona btw.
― Nabozo, Sunday, 17 November 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
the Amanda Black album is really fantastic too
― ufo, Sunday, 17 November 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
“Into Ingawe” is still gorgeous. There’s a video now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKaCbh8dqC8
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 24 November 2019 00:16 (four years ago) link
More from the Sun-El realm:Mamela, the debut album by Sun-El protégé Sino Msolo is very good. I posted the first two singles a while back, this is his latest video (for one of the least Sun-Elly tracks):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KprQC0F-7oUSino Msolo • Kaso
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 24 November 2019 00:51 (four years ago) link
S-Tone (a guest vocalist on both Africa to the World and Tugela Fairy) also has an EP out:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TtxUQXSObYS-Tone • Imbizo
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 24 November 2019 00:52 (four years ago) link
that Kaso is a jam, thanking you breastcrawl
― rob, Sunday, 1 December 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
new videos for Akulaleki and AmaDM here and for Lotto on the way for Samthing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlxDqJu6eUEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35JcVWV6PiYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jky2fBbfr4M
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
all of this stuff is going to be a godsend today, a good vibes IV drip
― Simon H., Thursday, 12 December 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
Speechless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TFqhCvLuTgDJ Stokie ft. Loxion Deep & Kabza De Small • Senorita
― breastcrawl, Friday, 13 December 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
wow that's utterly sublime
― ufo, Saturday, 14 December 2019 06:21 (four years ago) link
I listed this in my most recent 11 favourite songs of the moment, fuck, but I never actually posted it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWm3qf5LD-g
DJ Sonic SA ft. Manqonqo & Tonic Jazz • Endlini
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 14 December 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
This is so beautiful. It’s South African - but in a more “international” house style. There might be a better thread for it, I’d like to know, I’ll post it there too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0qE7s4IyloJ Maloe ft. Heidi B & Ceega wa Meropa • It Is Time
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 22 December 2019 03:07 (four years ago) link
Another gorgeous KabZamthing, from the new The Return of the Scorpion Kings album:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U98dgh9NSI4Kabza De Small x DJ Maphorisa ft. Samthing Soweto • Chuze(check the Rolling Afropop thread for more)
― breastcrawl, Monday, 23 December 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
Because I love it/her so:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYaH-Fa6Sjw
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 08:26 (four years ago) link
Video for “Tender Love”, Sha Sha’s very first:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWrvCe5n4tE
Remember to vote🔸for the Blossom EP!
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 11 January 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
Just noticed the YouTube link for this is broken:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbpv1TajH-oDJ Stokie ft. Loxion Deep & Kabza De Small - SenoritaSpotify link. It’s votable🔶 material.
― breastcrawl, Friday, 17 January 2020 22:48 (four years ago) link
I posted it elsewhere already, but it belongs here too: my playlist with all the South African tracks and albums that were nominated for the EOY.First 36 out of the 37 nominated tracks (Heavy K’s “Yebo Mama” is missing), from “Sondela” to “John Cena”, and after that the 9 nominated albums, from Sho Madjozi back down to Tresor.ILM 2019 EOY🇿🇦SOUTH AFRICA
― breastcrawl, Friday, 17 January 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
mthunzi's "insimbi", a v nice track that was shared upthread a few months ago, now has a video out to accompany the release of his debut album selimathunzi just now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE82RA6ziaA
album also includes last year's "vuka" and "ngibambe la" + the more recent cut "elentulo"
― dyl, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:59 (four years ago) link
It also has a track with Simmy - and this beautiful song with Ami Faku, “Uyathandeka”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo8mZjM666cIt’s quite a long album (16 tracks). Some of the best tracks are in the final section.
― breastcrawl, Friday, 24 January 2020 09:43 (four years ago) link
randomly revisited "akanamali" tonight -- years later, still tremendous.
― dyl, Saturday, 25 January 2020 08:37 (four years ago) link
Sha Sha “Tender Love” : this is great! thanks to the tracks poll I'm trying to get a bit more up to speed on African pop today and wow! I'm just listening to the Africa Now playlist on apple music. this is what I hear out in my quartier, now I can begin to put names to the sounds.
― juntos pedemos (Euler), Saturday, 1 February 2020 11:04 (four years ago) link
the whole sha sha album, blossom, is great
― ufo, Saturday, 1 February 2020 11:19 (four years ago) link
New 2020 song featuring one of the new voices of 2019:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmzlI8t81NI
Prince Kaybee ft. Shimza, Black Motion & Ami Faku • Uwrongo
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 1 February 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
Euler, you might also want to try the track “We’Mama” on DJ Maphorisa & Kabza De Small’s Scorpion Kings album, which was the first time I heard Sha Sha. Gorgeous song. I would be over the moon if that album places in the Albums 77 next week (besides Sha Sha’s and Samthing Soweto’s own albums).
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
wrote and deleted a few "more like Urighto" joeks, but anyway that is a lovely tune
― rob, Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
That iron still very hot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TPab7xaeP0
Kabza de Small & DJ Maphorisa ft. Samthing Soweto, Aymos, Mas Musiq & Myztro • Emcimbini
KdSXDJM dropped YET ANOTHER album this weekend (it's an Apple Music exclusive for now).
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 2 February 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
Added to library. Even though I'm not done with Return at all, sigh.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 2 February 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link