Thread for the AmaPiano awesomeness that is “Baby Are You Coming?” by Zero12finest feat. ThaMagnificent2

Love this track (it’s the closing track again) from Future Majesties & Bafo’s Ubuzukuzuku (The Struggle) album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B61JYzqq1YE
Future Majesties & Bafo • S’bonga Abazali

(Other good tracks: “S’yeza” and “Ungam’bambi”)

Amapiano wedding invasion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2L6OiMMeNM

catching up on this thread and i love "gabadiya"

those two shuffle muzik tracks rule too, will have to listen to the album soon.

In the Lorch/Phoyisa continuum >>> sounds like a hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ProUQmyGaM
Tyler ICU ft. Focalistic, Masterpiece, DJ Maphorisa & Kabza De Small • Kwarentin

“Take me back to December, 2019 / I even miss the bouncer”

^absolute anthem, might adopt that spelling tbrr

yup, banger

As first heard in Kabza & Porry’s first Quarantine Party mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9MqkxR9D08
Mfr Souls ft. Kwesta & GP Ma Orange • Krrrr (Phum’imali)

Another good one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHH9wTGb08I
Semi Tee ft. Focalistic • Mercedes

Riding the piano train:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rqf7pdWUtI
DJ Big Sky ft. Sbhanga & Gaba Cannal • KhushuKhushu

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=aDcVEjw9ggM
Kaygee DaKing & Bizizi • Sendi Location

Reminder that these amapiano bangers are part and parcel of ILM’s own rolling✳️all-inclusive✳️afro 2020 playlist

Dense, Dense, Dense (Yebo, Yebo, Yebo):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZcHIODWKZ4
Semi Tee ft. Kammu Dee & Njelic • Stayla

I know I shouldn’t bother because there’s hardly anyone left here anymore, but these are some serious bangers, y”all”.

no, keep it up. stayla was a great addition to my weekend.

I have to admit, I might have hit a bit of a wall with amapiano. I can hear the quality in the last few tracks you posted, but I get a little restless when some of the more familiar elements come in. And of course, there's likely something lost in hearing this stuff sat in front of a laptop with headphones on. I've had that thought before though and then been surprised by something new, so I'm not giving up on it, but I'm finding myself less excited to set aside time to check new tracks

I'm kinda lost in the afro/SA/amapiano threads atm but please tell me someone has already posted the very addictive "Piano Piano" by Alfa Kat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2H1ARs8udo

This is the catchiest jam for me right now – apparently it’s Zimbabwean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh_amXZNE0I
Xavier ft. Jahbue & Tinah • I Don’t Know

Update: Xavier is apparently an SA-born, Zimbabwe-raised, (in 2016 at least) UK-based comedian (would explain that British bit).
More importantly, he seems to have jacked that “I don’t know but I think I know” hook from the Zimbabwean track “I Donno” by Chakie & DJ Spuzza from earlier this year (here’s some people getting down to it). Still think Xavier’s is the better jam tho.

But I have to give it to Spuzza, the *other* track he dropped this year is an absolute monster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL9lGCeKtGk
DJ Spuzza ft. Chester Houseprince, Don Kamati, MEGA & Chakie • Soek Soek

(keep forgetting that Afrikaans is somewhat of a lingua franca in Namibia. A lot of these lyrics are easily understood by the Dutch speaker that I am)

And holy wow at this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBtX7kO4b1o
Kabza De Small ft. Wizkid • Need You Tonight

oops wrong thread...

“Corona’s no vibe” but this jam sure is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIRsPS7rV_g
Robot Boii & MFR Souls ft. DJ Visca • SBWL AmaPlans

two new tracks by Njelic (the vocalist on last year's “Shesha” and “Nana Thula”), both featuring MalumNator, De Mthuda & Ntokzin. this is brilliant stuff:

“Tsotsi”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbbM0kuCL1w

“Messiah”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_oxLQJe0bo

Banger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPE30hvjZuM
Team Delela ft. Aembu, Lemamo & Blaque Juice • Bopedi

(their whole Pediyanos EP is fire)

"Motoro" has a video, for those who like to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbrir9a0n7I
Team Delela ft. Aembu • Motoro

This is the big piano hit right now tho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUK5S98r0MQ
Reece Madlisa & Zuma ft. Mr JazziQ & Busta929 • Jazzidisciples (Zlele)

some dance moves to practise at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7F3WQHRKEU

yesterday I played "baby are you coming" followed by dj mujava "mugwante" in my dj set and a dude ran up on me all excited saying he was from pretoria and I took him right back home

Achievement unlocked!!

Really love jazzidisciples

yesterday I played "baby are you coming" followed by dj mujava "mugwante" in my dj set and a dude ran up on me all excited saying he was from pretoria and I took him right back home

Really love jazzidisciples

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), maandag 7 september 2020 3:27 bookmarkflaglink

that track is the bomb... for real

Busiswa’s new one is *extremely* groovy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erEV_Yj-Z-0
Busiswa ft. Kamo Mphela • SBWL

Really love jazzidisciples
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), maandag 7 september 2020 3:27 bookmarkflaglink

that track is the bomb... for real

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), dinsdag 8 september 2020 13:44 bookmarkflaglink

official video is out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGvAKp3fOqg

...and it's the full 7+ minutes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3UVw_SZbMs
MFR Souls - Amanikiniki (on a 20 tracks album called... Musical Kings, Amapiano is all about royalty)

...and about long-ass albums!

for more where “Jazzidisciples (Zlele)” came from: the 5-track Ama Roto EP by Reece Madlisa & Zuma with Mr JazziQ is really good...

...and so is TallArseTee (the original amapiano mc)’s Pampiri EP (Tribute to Papers 707), which has 7 tracks, 3 of which are with the above combination, including “Ngwanona”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br-ah3UIX6o

(I’m mentioning the number of tracks because some of these amapiano projects (even some that are called EPs) can be intimidatingly long - case in point: that MFR Souls album. These two are in the half-hour range. And if you happen to feel amapiano all tends to sound samey: there’s lots of variety here, especially on the TallArseTee)

this banger now has a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9_da2P5JjQ
Focalistic ft. Vigro Deep • Ke Star

Stumbled upon these two articles while looking for sources
https://mixmag.net/feature/amapiano-south-africa-house-music-movement-gauteng
https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/music/from-south-africa-to-the-world-why-amapiano-could-be-the-next-dance-music-genre-to-rule-the-clubs-1.1065104

Thanks for those! The Mixmag piece in particular is interesting.

Propulsion & Vibes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0YvDXksIw8
DJ Lace ft. Khanye • Izint Ezinhle

Loving all these *different* versions of amapiano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J91SWcOtx0M
Mr JazziQ ft. Reece Madlisa, Zuma, Mpura, Riky Rick & 9umba • VSOP

sorry, wasn't this the Zero12Finest thread?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaNEExJK-ec
Calvin Fallo ft. Zero12Finest • No Strings Attached

fun TV performance of Busiswa's "SBWL":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01_H7TtNQ2c

Izint Ezinhle is excellent. And yeah definitely something "different" going on...I wonder if I really have any idea what makes amapiano amapiano? Anyway, I got pleasing Tresor-ish vibes from that. I also want to say that I *love* the guitar that comes in at the end, that's how you do it :)

VSOP's amapiano d'ennui is certainly an intriguing move, maybe a little sluggish for repeat listens imo, but very cool to see how much stretch there is in this sound.

yeah, I guess I sh/c/ould have posted "Izint Ezinhle" on the Sun-El thread as sort of adjacent to Blaq Diamond or Samthing's "Omama Bomthandazo", but percussion and bass-wise it is definitely under the influence of amapiano.

I mentioned it somewhere (but not on this thread I don’t think), but KayGee DaKing x Bizizi’s Kokota Piano (Amapiano Vol. 1) is a killer album, one of my favourites of the year. Front to back strong amapiano tracks with a delicious pop crunch.

Of course there’s last year’s massive “Kokota” (see upthread, also for the wedding dance version), and its follow-up “Isabella”, but these two:
Kaygee DaKing & Bizizi ft. Team Mosha • December;
Kaygee DaKing & Bizizi • Sendi Location
were posted here as well, with links that are now broken.

They made a video for “Rambo” (which might actually be the sparsest of the bunch, with not as much of that pop sheen):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJISK2BiHOs

(btw they've since dropped a new project as well, called Double Dragon)

Other broken links that needed replacing:

DeMthuda ft. Njelic • Shesha

De Mogul SA ft. Mdee Mshangane • Na Ku Randza

JohnBravo ft. Caltonic SA • Thuma Mina (Freestyle)

Another very good album I never mentioned on this thread: Semi Tee’s I’m Only Tweentyone (yes, it’s spelled ‘tweentyone’). It’s some dense shit, sonically closer to gqom than most amapiano. Check “Mercedes” and especially “Stayla” upthread.

Weirdly, singles “Gabadiya” and this one (I’m replacing the broken link):
Semi Tee ft. Ma Lemon • Lemonade
are not included on the album.

This other heavy hitter with Ma Lemon is though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FijCIxLVs1w
Semi Tee ft. Ma Lemon • Vumani

(Everybody needs some) Amapiano relaxation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWo9vo9ZgvA
Kota Embassy ft. Cue • Sugar Mama

(possibly outvibing even DJ Stokie’s “Senorita”)