new sound coming from south africa. hadnt heard of it before until i saw goon club allstars announce a new ep from a guy called DJ Lag:
Over the last year we’ve been exposed to a new strain of percussive house music from Durban, South Africa. Igqom (direct translation from old Zulu is “bang”) is a stripped back, street music that channels a raw tribal spirituality. In Durban you can hear it blaring out of taxis, shopping malls and clubs alike. The basis of most tunes is a set of samples that are flipped in different ways from most of the producers in the scene. Tunes are uploaded from mobiles phones and shared for free from a handful of sites.
The next release on Goon Club Allstars is a 5 track EP from local star DJ LAG. For the next month we will be sharing a track a week from different Igqom producers. First up we have "BHUHURU" from DJ Lag; download, enjoy, share. Big up Okzharp, Menchess of Rudeboyz, DJ Lag, DJ Lusiman & Neana. Igqom takeover 2014.
think it might be interesting to see where this goes and if some more familiar producers put their own spin on it.
also kind of fits into that "is the dream of the underground dead" thread we had on here. imo the only truly unique, organic new sounds that we're going to see nowadays are those that have a chance to develop an identity locally before being adultered and homogenized by global influence. 3rd world edm is the new wave
ultraspatial wrote:oh wow another 3rd world house style people will talk about for like one month
Another? Which was the last? I only recall azonto but there's not much talk about it because it's a bit too similar to mainstream EDM. There was also changa tuki and logobi but there's no new tracks that I know about from those camps
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ultraspatial wrote:oh wow another 3rd world house style people will talk about for like one month
Another? Which was the last? I only recall azonto but there's not much talk about it because it's a bit too similar to mainstream EDM. There was also changa tuki and logobi but there's no new tracks that I know about from those camps
ultraspatial wrote:oh wow another 3rd world house style people will talk about for like one month
Another? Which was the last? I only recall azonto but there's not much talk about it because it's a bit too similar to mainstream EDM. There was also changa tuki and logobi but there's no new tracks that I know about from those camps
Same in Angola and Namibia, I wouldn't rule out most of Sub-Saharan Africa from that. It's weird in Angola especially where a lot of stuff we'd call House is considered Techno.
