THE HOUSE OF SUN-EL: Sun-El Musician, Simmy, Mlindo The Vocalist, and other related artists

yeah, that's lovely

ooh gorgeous!

hmm...tbc I am not cat-calling this song, I just think it's pretty

Much more Heavy K than Sun-EL - it's none other than Mpumi, Miss Mzobe if you’re nasty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OBZw57sn_g
Mpumi Mzobe ft. Dj SK & Mailo Music • Sekumnandi

Can you hear the sound of that plane or whatever it is taking off?

Also, why can’t we fucking go out and dance anymore!??!

will fire this up shortly.
as to why we can't dance, do I have some bad news for you...

please forks don’t hurt me

but as I was gonna say:

SKY ROCKETS IN FLIGHT 🚀🚀🚀🚀
SEKUMNANDI

(GoogleTranslate it!)

Hypnotic track from last year I’m into right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IRzGlgFk4E
Insane Malwela ft. Mtanami & Micky • Beng'hlel Nomuntu Wami

Singer S-Tone has an album out on Sun-El’s label, after his EP last year. Almost all the tracks are produced by Claudio and/or Kenza, there’s only one track with Sun-El himself (not my immediate favourite). There’s some amapiano-leaning tracks as well, a first in EL World, I think. Take “Kamnandzi”, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx0ERueZWOI

I accidentally put a different Vico Da Sporo f. Sandile track on my afropop playlist, and it—"Umuhle Ntombi"—just came on and blew me away:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBb8-C8pIEY

"Luthando" is good too of course (I guess I'll have to find time to check out this...2 hr. long album ffs)

“Umuhle Ntombi” is the only other track I had checked out. It’s good, but I prefer “Luthando”.

Listening to his other tracks featuring Sandile now: “Buya” is all about the last two minutes when the harmonies really kick in, “Intokazi Yohlobo” is beautiful triphoppy amapiano, that beat is great. “Noyana” from *the other* album Vico da S released this year is also very very nice (wow at that vibraphone break), and “Ndod’mnyama”, Sandile’s Vico-produced solo single, is weirdly mixed but those muffled dubby handclaps remind me of the Peech Boys’ “Don’t Make Me Wait” (speaking of tracks with unexpected rock guitar!) and now I’m very happy.

btw Sandile is also on a track on one of the two (sigh) excellent amapiano albums released this year so far by Future Majestics.

It really is a shame how much good music is being released on a weekly basis in South Africa alone.

^^to be clear, this is not meant to be snarky, all this (potentially) great music that is being released within the various SA house genres is a blessing, but it’s quite literally impossible to keep up with

Update: just noticed Vico Da Sporo dropped *yet another album* over the weekend, 81 minutes, 17 tracks, 6 of which with Sandile. Needless to say, I haven’t had time to listen to it yet. Where does he find it?

Anyone in need of some Simmy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwoBQ0_1QWQ

This is beautiful too (from last year):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82bL0AqjJlI
Nombila • Inyawo

always more simmy please

This is gorgeous in every way but one:

https://youtu.be/zp0xrgdOCgw
Cassper Nyovest ft. Samthing Soweto • Friday Night

oh, YouTupaws...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp0xrgdOCgw

Okay, I will post the other Samthing track on CN’s new album too. There’s less of him this time, but I’ll take every bit of Samthing I can get and Nyovest is less intrusive on his own track here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOdtEKK8NnA
Cassper Nyovest ft. Samthing Soweto • Ngwanesu

huh, that guy also has Anthony Hamilton on this album! Unfamiliar with him.

he’s one of SA’s biggest rappers

now that you mention it, i think i remember ngud

he’s also on amapiano hits like Kabza’s “Phoyisa” and “Sponono”, and “Monate Mpolaye” by DJ Sumbody.

Sun-El has a credit on this track on the new Black Motion album - I'm posting the performance on music show Live Amp on SA television:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbfO3iwFrQY
Black Motion ft. Sun-El Musician & Nobuhle • Hosana

(there are also tracks with Simmy, Ami Faku, Tresor and Nokwazi on the album btw, just to name a few)

Posted this on the amapiano thread, but it fits at least as well here:

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

Mlindo the Vocalist on "Yaz Abantu" is absolutely fucking killing me right now, issa vibe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4afXKoaNIvA

anybody know who the other guy (not Gwamba) providing vocals on this track is?

that’s wonderful. according to the YouTube comments the other singer is Masiano. he is also on “Yekela”, that Mlindo track from earlier this year (it’s somewhere upthread).

Gwamba himself is from Malawi btw.

found all of five more credited features on Spotify, of which I like this recent one the best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m65hr9-jbC4
Meez ft. Masiano & DJ Mdix • Syavana

(there are a few more tracks on YouTube, with Meez and others. he’s also a producer, this is a rap track he did, with himself on the hook.)

ha, this just in: the new DJ Mdix features Mlindo and is produced by... Masiano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz5KpadE7Wc
DJ Mdix ft. Mlindo the Vocalist • Cloud 9

But is any of this on a par with “Yaz Abantu”? The answer, I would think, is no, so please to proceed accordingly.

(don’t get me wrong, DJ Mdix is great: check “Ngiyazfunela” with Mpumi (2020) and Kaylow’s “Isgubhu” (2017) (both posted on this thread), or the brilliant “Umvulo” with Zanda Zakuza (2016))

Good sleuthing, thanks!

In just less than 24hrs the pre-order of my upcoming album #TTWB will drop with its 3rd single “Never Never ft @nobuhlemusic

16.10.2020#NeverNever #30songs #ttwb pic.twitter.com/q8kePIxbtz

— Sun-EL Musician (@sunelmusicianza) October 15, 2020

#30songs !!!

New Simmy album on the way as well

fuckin' a.

both on friday?

no, Friday it’s just the new Sun-El single. albums are open for pre-order, no release date given yet.

sorry for causing overexcitement

still a reason to stay on this cruel planet

“Never Never” is lovely, such a gorgeous slow build.

well, here’s your Taking Sides for this Friday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ao-_htTBpk
Sun-EL Musician ft. Nobuhle • Never Never

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqdvi8AO-04
Simmy ft. Da Capo & Sun-El Musician • Emakhaya

(I’m going with Simmy here, for now)

<3 that simmy tune

now listening to “Never Never” less cursorily, and yes, while not nearly as immediate as the Simmy track it’s gorgeous in its understatedness. the way everything swells up with the organ towards the 4-minute mark and then culminates in those horn blasts, wow!

(sure, take this out of context if you must)

both good but i especially like "emakhaya"

Emakhaya is amazing

they’re both amazing, is where I’m at right now

Simmy, Tugela Fairy (Made Of Stars), 16 tracks, out Nov 6

Sun-El Musician, To The World And Beyond, 31 (!) tracks, out Dec 4

Nobuhle live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Om1iPPfex4

(the first song hasn't been released yet)