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
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:33 am
by lloydnoise
this stuffs cool, nice links
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 10:52 am
by ultraspatial
oh wow another 3rd world house style people will talk about for like one month
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 12:40 pm
by Phigure
i give it 3 months
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 1:16 pm
by topmo3
sspunds good
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 1:35 pm
by thekuku
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
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 1:36 pm
by hubb
ncasa music boss good stuff fresh to death until the morning...
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 2:10 pm
by ultraspatial
thekuku wrote:
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
kuduro, kwaito, tarraxinha
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 2:31 pm
by sixs
the big boys of the gqom scene upload almost everything they make to a certain south african mp3 site
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 2:36 pm
by AxeD
Sounds like me finding out how Fruity Loops works.
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 3:43 pm
by Phigure
ultraspatial wrote:
thekuku wrote:
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
kuduro, kwaito, tarraxinha
shangaan as well
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 4:40 pm
by sixs
All of which are still going
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 5:03 pm
by ultraspatial
yeah but they' were hyped as fuck for a month or two then sorta faded back into relative obscurity
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 5:14 pm
by Harkat
That prolly means they were hyped as fuck in the no-longer-dubstep UK bass world though...they're still going where it matters, right?
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 5:53 pm
by rickyarbino
Always thought Neana was from London.
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:15 pm
by Phigure
rickyarbino wrote:Always thought Neana was from London.
he is, I suspect he got that shoutout for turning the gca guys onto this stuff
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 9:47 pm
by mks
There has actually been loads of House coming out of South Africa for years now. I hear that House is mainstream over there.
I worked with quite a few South African House labels while I was working in distribution.
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 9:50 pm
by rickyarbino
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.
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 11:02 pm
by Phigure
mks wrote:There has actually been loads of House coming out of South Africa for years now. I hear that House is mainstream over there.
I worked with quite a few South African House labels while I was working in distribution.
yeah kwaito/tsonga stuff goes pretty far back
'96
Re: Igqom / igqomu / gqom house music
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 11:06 pm
by nowaysj
AxeD wrote:Sounds like me finding out how Fruity Loops works.
