And highly spiritual amapiano goes where?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx21fYB5Ha4Mhaw Keys ft. Vigro Deep • Mwari
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 23 February 2020 00:11 (four years ago) link
(and thanks, forks!)
Tikoloshi is a banger.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
hahaha the comments on the OP are amazing
"I was listening to this so loudMy neighbor called the cops They arrested him"
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
Mom: switch that offMe: Why?Mom*angry*: WE GOT BETTER SPEAKERS IN THE SITTING ROOM!!
Made a pseudo-pan-African-pop/not-pop playlist for the rolling afro 2020 thread and all Afro-adjacent threads, generously defined. It’s already 105 (update: 106) tracks deep, so enjoy!ILM rolling ✳️all-inclusive✳️ afro 2020
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
Other relevant South African threads:
THE HOUSE OF SUN-EL: Sun-El Musician, Simmy, Mlindo The Vocalist, and other related artists
🎹🎹PİANO! PİANO!🎹🎹 - a song appreciation thread for ”eMcimbini” by Kabza De Small & DJ Maphorisa ft. Aymos, Samthing Soweto, Mas Musiq & Myztro
Gqompetition time: two songs, two videos - QDOT vs SHADO M
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
Jobe London & Mphow69 - Sukendleleni (feat. Kamo Manje)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3OTClCxDyk
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
Who's behind the song 'Life Ya Bora' ? Just ridic
https://somculo.com/download-mp3/life-ya-bora-amapiano/
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:49 (four years ago) link
That's actually "Empa Nna" by Jusca x Plee ft. Zing Master & Mabozza. I posted it upthread, back in December. That whole Jusca x Plee album is great.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
ahhhhh!!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
So it is!!!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
Empa nna is excellent.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 28 February 2020 08:09 (four years ago) link
wow "Mwari" is really wild! I love how much of this stuff still sounds as raw as something like Township Funk
― rob, Sunday, 1 March 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
The whole Mhaw Keys EP (The Outcast)is awesome, deeeep amapiano house.Kabza is on the only non-piano track, which I will post on the Sun-El thread.“Ngena Nyoro” and “Umamakhe” are some of the other highlights.
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 1 March 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
For all fans of "Labantwana Ama Uber" and/or "Lorch":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wy0cfA23iQSemi Tee ft. Ma Lemon • Lemonade
and/or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZHNrwUxP1kSemi Tee ft. Miano, Kammu Dee & Ora Dee • Gabadiya
"Gabadiya" in particular is **dense** and there are some percussive things going on in both of these that seem new in amapiano.
― breastcrawl, Monday, 2 March 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
*dense* is the word. I have not quite warmed to these yet but I believe I'm on my way.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 5 March 2020 21:49 (four years ago) link
Flavours of Amapiano:
The organ-infused original, with an exciting helping of drum distortion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMDg3aMTz7gJohnBravo ft. Caltonic SA • Thuma Mina (Freestyle)
Would you like some violin with that piano? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DDe8RMG0mk Mr JazziQ x JazziDisciples ft. Vigro Deep & Rams De Violinist • Blue Skies
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
Indian, with Niniola as a bonus ingredient:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqO5x_P1XIgShuffle Muzik ft. Niniola, Master KG & Mr Brown • Putirika
(from Shuffle Muzik’s groooooovy Stimela album – also check “Putirika (Revisit)”)
Btw, this means last year’s club hit “Tanqueray” (with cheesy sax flavour) is now finally available on Spotify (and I guess other streaming platforms):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdlKlnf5GNI Shuffle Muzik ft. MasterPiece, SnowDeep, Zero12Finest & JaySax • Tanqueray
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
Blending a timeless SA house vocal with amapiano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxPu95Vnc20 ThackzinDJ ft. Boohle & Teejay • Izwelonke
More of that Thackzin fusion flavour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XntkbENJu9M Daliwonga ft. ThackzinDJ & Shaun101 • Ebusuku
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
Chef’s kiss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBGfCZfogjc #Chelete • Ama CV
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link
So many great amapiano albums coming out as well. The Shuffle Muzik mentioned above especially is sounding like an early lock for the EOY, along with the Scorpion Kings Live and the Mhaw Keys “EP”, but there’s lots of good stuff on ThackzinDJ’s Ingqumbo Yeminyanya (The Wrath of the Ancestors) EP and Mr JazziQ x JazziDisciples’s 0303 album as well.
"Mdzango" with TallArseTee and "No. 9" with the equally charmingly named Hip-naughtic Sean are other favs on 0303.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
As others have mentioned, the AmaPiano Grooves playlist on Spotify is a good way to keep up with this stuff. I came across both “Ama CV” and “Thuma Mina (Freestyle)” there. (The latter has now unfortunately been removed from Spotify however.)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
sorry for piano rocking
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 14 March 2020 10:37 (four years ago) link
It is welcome!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 14 March 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link
was beginning to think corona killed the piano thread
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 14 March 2020 14:21 (four years ago) link
nah, just hard to get hyped about fun dance music right now i think
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 14 March 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link
if you feel that way, the Mhaw Keys EP might surprise you - “fun” is not the operative word there.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 14 March 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
having a go at it
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 16 March 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link
Still amazed by Tikoloshi. So raw.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 16 March 2020 22:15 (four years ago) link
did Mhaw Keys fit your mood, forks?
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 19 March 2020 11:13 (four years ago) link
(btw, best to skip the first two tracks the first time around, they have a different vibe than the core tracks)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 19 March 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link
Reposting this broken YouTube link:
Vigro Deep ft. Sdala The Vocalist • International
JohnBravo & Caltonic SA’s “Thuma Mina (Freestyle)” is back up on Spotify btw.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 27 March 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
Video for Semi Tee’s “Gabadiya” (as posted by Nabozo on the Rolling Afro thread):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-zuBeqNrwY
More Semi Tee & friends content: First official video for a Scorpion Kings hit track is for "Lorch" (the “Koko” vid was more of a mission statement, and “Nana Thula” was from the Piano Hub album). It’s a criminally short edit tho:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfuEP0fDrvYKabza De Small & DJ Maphorisa ft. Semi Tee, Miano & Kammu Dee • Lorch
(btw, I didn’t know that a) Maphorisa is rapping on this and b) the song is about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thembinkosi_Lorch)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 27 March 2020 18:45 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-9AF-IxG98
the "Gabadiya" video was removed for some reason, now it's back up.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 2 April 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
Love this track (it’s the closing track again) from Future Majesties & Bafo’s Ubuzukuzuku (The Struggle) album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B61JYzqq1YEFuture Majesties & Bafo • S’bonga Abazali
(Other good tracks: “S’yeza” and “Ungam’bambi”)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
Amapiano wedding invasion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2L6OiMMeNM
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 30 April 2020 09:35 (four years ago) link
catching up on this thread and i love "gabadiya"
― ufo, Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:34 (four years ago) link
those two shuffle muzik tracks rule too, will have to listen to the album soon.
― ufo, Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:46 (four years ago) link
In the Lorch/Phoyisa continuum >>> sounds like a hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ProUQmyGaMTyler ICU ft. Focalistic, Masterpiece, DJ Maphorisa & Kabza De Small • Kwarentin
“Take me back to December, 2019 / I even miss the bouncer”
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Sunday, 3 May 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link
^absolute anthem, might adopt that spelling tbrr
― dip to dup (rob), Monday, 4 May 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
yup, banger
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 4 May 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
As first heard in Kabza & Porry’s first Quarantine Party mix:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9MqkxR9D08Mfr Souls ft. Kwesta & GP Ma Orange • Krrrr (Phum’imali)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 21 May 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
Another good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHH9wTGb08ISemi Tee ft. Focalistic • Mercedes
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 23 May 2020 01:23 (four years ago) link
Riding the piano train:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rqf7pdWUtIDJ Big Sky ft. Sbhanga & Gaba Cannal • KhushuKhushu
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 12 June 2020 11:19 (four years ago) link
And a double whammy from Kaygee & Bizizi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki1jo8BJ3Ik Kaygee DaKing & Bizizi ft. Team Mosha • December
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDcVEjw9ggMKaygee DaKing & Bizizi • Sendi Location
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 12 June 2020 11:20 (four years ago) link
Reminder that these amapiano bangers are part and parcel of ILM’s own rolling✳️all-inclusive✳️afro 2020 playlist
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 12 June 2020 11:27 (four years ago) link
Dense, Dense, Dense (Yebo, Yebo, Yebo):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZcHIODWKZ4Semi Tee ft. Kammu Dee & Njelic • Stayla
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 12 June 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
I know I shouldn’t bother because there’s hardly anyone left here anymore, but these are some serious bangers, y”all”.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 15 June 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link