[MCR] 26.06. SHANGAAN ELECTRO @ ISLINGTON MILL

[u-basstard]

How do?! This is the stuff on Honest Jon's that was compiled by Mark Ernestus ov Basic Channel! It's gonna be off it.

Faktion & Islington Mill presents...

[[[SHANGAAN ELECTRO EUROPEAN TOUR 2010]]]

++Nozinja++

++Tshetsha Boys++

++DJ Spoko ++

+¡the fastest dancers in Shangaan!+


[[ONLY UK DATE OUTSIDE LONDON]]


&


Slackk (Numbers/UTTU)

DJ Haus (Hot City/UTTU)

Mind On Fire crew

DJ Jon K (SnipSnap Music/Hoya Hoya)

DJ Eil R & special guests


Islington Mill, Salford
Manchester

Sunday 26th June
4pm-12am


£8 adv tickets from boomkat.com online or Piccadilly Records in person.

£10 o.t.d

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170867302967737

tickets -- http://boomkat.com/stuff/408552-faktion ... ll-salford

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“It’s fantastic, best thing I’ve heard for a long time. It’s how music should be” - Karin Dreijer Andersson (The Knife/Fever Ray)


Shangaan Electro is the street level dance phenomenon from South Africa that went global in 2010 on the back of a series of viral youtube clips (2 million hits and counting) and an acclaimed compilation on Honest Jon's that introduced the movers and shakers in this fast emerging micro-genre. Shangaan Electro replaces Shangaan music's traditional instrumentation with midi-keyboard sounds, re-pitched vocal samples and jacking four to the floor beats, then amps things up to breakneck speeds of over 180BPM. This is hyper-kinetic digital dance music custom made for weekly dance offs in Soweto, and it's getting ever faster...

This summer Shangaan Electro is hitting European festivals/clubs for the first time ever. Based on a Soweto street party, the live show will feature the stars of the Honest Jon's compilation - producer/mastermind and vocalist Nozinja aka 'Dog' and the clown-masked Tshetsha Boys among them - alongside the fastest Shangaan dancers and fast-rising kwaito/house producer and Nozinja affiliate DJ Spoko (co-producer of DJ Mujava's 'Township Funk').

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We'll also be running a BBQ throughout the afternoon (weather permitting) and will be joined by man like Slackk, a self professed "…bald, grime-loving scouser" currently based in London with a debut release on Jackmaster's Numbers imprint, and DJ Haus aka Hot City, the mastermind behind Unknown To The Unknown and remixes of MZO Bullet, Hot Chip, Robyn a.o... Add the catalytic Mind On Fire crew and the people's DJ, Jon K and this will be unmissable.

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"None of Shangaan Electro sounds quite like anything else we have at our disposal. Which, come to think of it, places it within a rich tradition indeed." - Pitchfork.com

"The music itself is stripped down to basics: synthesizer-produced marimba beats, high-pitched singing... But the most riveting aspect of the music is the speed." - The Wall Street Journal

"This is the cheetah of African music." - NPR Music

"Shangaan Electro is a small sign of an emerging future, improbable and necessary." - The Wire

[dj samrai]

Gonna be maaaaaad!