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

Most of the English language tracks are very cringey for me. Couldn't get through them.

Agreed! Skip them!

New Samthing Soweto EP! Not yet cracked but I have a lotta faith in this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHbRGDXHP5w

The Samthing EP is glorious!
Upbeat, uptempo amapiano with producer De Mthuda at the helm for most of the tracks. I love Aymos and Daliwonga, but it’s a real treat to hear The Original Vocalist flexing again. Opener “Chomi” had me jumping around in the early morning, “Tilili” is one for the ages (love the interplay with his own voice and co-vocalist MalumNator), first single “Weekend”, which I liked not loved, falls perfectly into place here, and the live medley of previous hits with the Mzansi Youth Choir brings joy to the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dox4zTHHoHQ
Samthing Soweto ft. De Mthuda, Da Muziqal Chef & MalumNator • Tilili

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovdsp286_B8
Samthing Soweto ft. Mzansi Youth Choir • The Danko! Medley

New Mlindo song as well!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtC3I9k1AzI
Mlindo The Vocalist ft. Nathi • Mali

I'm 3/4 into the Sun-El and I find it ridiculously consistent and pleasant. I guess it's the kind of fuck you artists can give to music nerds obsessed about quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks that can go into ILM polls. South Africa's obsession with Aaliyah's "Try Again" is funny.

🤔

So is no one listening to the new Samthing? Try “Tilili” at least, folx!

(please don’t tell me y’all are too wrapped up in the noms bizz. December is part of 2020 too, the busiest part in SA in fact when it comes to new releases)

The songs are a little bit too squarely in the amapiano norm: not a problem as background to his fantastic voice but lacking the dynamics of his hits. Tilili is the best but the track still moves like a slug you could find at the end of any KDS album.

Yesterday I listened to every Dj Manzo SA / Comado / Mthandazo Gyata song and these guys have true potential.

yeah the samthing EP (lol that 36 minutes is now an EP with amapiano track lengths) is decent but sometimes feels a little too amapiano-by-numbers and isn't as strong as last year's album. still pleasant though

The Danko! Medley is amazing! Highlight for me

im v late to this party but this is some of my favorite music ever rn

Uwrongo is on Obama’s EOY list lol

herighto

he went with the edited version, very unpresidential imo

it’s summer in Mzansi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AagjAUE8U8s
Blaq Diamond • SummerYoMuthi

Love Mlindo's loopy vocal on this album cut:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gSrvQZUyTM
Senzo Afrika ft. Mlindo The Vocalist & Alie Keys • Ngiyajola

The Danko! Medley is amazing! Highlight for me

― octobeard, donderdag 17 december 2020 3:43

there's a video now, just in time for Xmas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdJ0FcjMGD8
Samthing Soweto ft. Mzansi Youth Choir • The Danko! Medley

#joytotheworld

This is an amazing uplifting clip. Love this new blue lipstick trend.

Watched it 10 times already. Now want them to cover every Amapiano song in existence.

more beauty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdj7a221c0U
Fka Mash ft. Just Bheki & Da Muziqal Chef • Zamalobolo

happy new year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FFDwGxQtB4

Black Coffee ft. Maxine Ashley & Sun-El Musician • You Need Me

finally got around to the Claudio x Kenza album and I think it's maybe better than both Simmy's and Sun-El's albums this year

new Mthunzi track - with Sun-El:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctin-RLO91o
Mthunzi • Elentulo

reminder that most of the current South African musical action is now taking place here:

MZANSI MUZIQ 2021 🇿🇦 Rolling South Africa thread

Nobuhle, best known for her feature on Sun-El’s “Never Never”, has a new song out, “Phezulu”, produced by Kenza (no Claudio):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUSpgPm9OUE

This is how she sung it live back in June:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tz7ngRcC9w

(I can't help but miss this thread, but see the post above - the beauty is still on duty, it just moved to a different location!)

I made a Spotify playlist with (almost) everything posted in the MZANSI MUZIQ 2021 🇿🇦 Rolling South African thread as well as South(ern) African tracks posted this year on other threads, like this one:

ILM rolling 🇿🇦 Mzansi MusiQ 2021 🇸🇿 🇳🇦

Kenza (without Claudio) with Ami Faku --->>

"Sihlobo Sami": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3I6WvQGwFA

love that track.

Sweet and intoxicating, a few steps short of transcendental, really few. Love the vocals. There's also an extended mix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ1CgbfIYik
Sun-EL Musician - Portia's Chant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZkcF5lzN3k
Sun-El Musician - Higher feat. Simmy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fXZqYgYfBA
Sun-El Musician - (more) Higher feat. Simmy

just listened to this <33333

great tune

oh it's gorgeous

Very uplifting comedown music

this is fucking good

what a song. love everything they do together.

i like side b ("ululate") of the single he just put out

this is so beautiful

"Wawundithembisile" - The One Who Sings ft. Sun-El Musician and Kenza

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

Sun-El's new album African Electronic Dance Music is out today, a little more palatable than the last one at "only" one hour & 3 minutes. The first four and last two tracks on initial contact seem like the highlights

ooh thanks! surprised this isn't getting more attention...

The whole thing is great.

need to listen to it asap

honestly, i slept on the last one. it's definitely way too long, but i really like disc 2 and disc 1 has several great tracks too

I love him but his work is so samey it can be hard to pick out highlights. Not really a criticism but if I’m enthusing about him, I’ll still send friends to Akanamali first.

Or Emakhaya. Ok there’s a few…

yeah the last album definitely suffered from being nearly 3 hours, i'm sure it would have been much more enjoyable if you cut it down to the best hour or less, but getting to that point would be a real challenge

new one seems better on first listen, though the vocal tracks are notably stronger than the instrumentals

love the album all the way thru

tho he has something of a signature aesthetic i don't know if it's quite fair to call his music samey. there are a few tracks on here that i would not have guessed were by him if they'd been in the middle of a mix/comp or something

it's only really an issue over the course of a 3 hour album

The number of tracks seems to come from a place of generosity, though, rather than “lack of quality control”

Three quarters of this - the first half and last few songs - are excellent. "Amateki," "Higher," and "Bestfriend" especially. "Amateki" is an immediate mood boost. "Higher" has a spiritual quality to it and is one of my favorite tracks of the year. The third-quarter of the album, which consists of instrumental afro-house tracks "Jozi", "Spiritual Bomb," and "Alone" I wish was about 10 minutes shorter.