yup, banger
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 4 May 2020 15:38 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
no, keep it up. stayla was a great addition to my weekend.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 15 June 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
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
― dip to dup (rob), Monday, 15 June 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
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
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
This is the catchiest jam for me right now – apparently it’s Zimbabwean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh_amXZNE0IXavier ft. Jahbue & Tinah • I Don’t Know
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 09:51 (three years ago) link
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=pL9lGCeKtGkDJ 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)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 25 June 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
And holy wow at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBtX7kO4b1oKabza De Small ft. Wizkid • Need You Tonight
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 June 2020 12:02 (three years ago) link
oops wrong thread...
“Corona’s no vibe” but this jam sure is:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIRsPS7rV_gRobot Boii & MFR Souls ft. DJ Visca • SBWL AmaPlans
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 1 August 2020 07:21 (three years ago) link
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
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 01:10 (three years ago) link
Banger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPE30hvjZuMTeam Delela ft. Aembu, Lemamo & Blaque Juice • Bopedi
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 5 September 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
(their whole Pediyanos EP is fire)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 5 September 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
"Motoro" has a video, for those who like to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbrir9a0n7I Team Delela ft. Aembu • Motoro
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 5 September 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
This is the big piano hit right now tho:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUK5S98r0MQReece Madlisa & Zuma ft. Mr JazziQ & Busta929 • Jazzidisciples (Zlele)
some dance moves to practise at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7F3WQHRKEU
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 5 September 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
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
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Sunday, 6 September 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
Achievement unlocked!!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 6 September 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
Really love jazzidisciples
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 7 September 2020 01:27 (three years ago) link
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 7 September 2020 09:44 (three years ago) link
Really love jazzidisciples― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), maandag 7 september 2020 3:27 bookmarkflaglink
― 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), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 11:44 (three years ago) link
Busiswa’s new one is *extremely* groovy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erEV_Yj-Z-0Busiswa ft. Kamo Mphela • SBWL
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 12:11 (three years ago) link
Really love jazzidisciples― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), maandag 7 september 2020 3:27 bookmarkflaglinkthat track is the bomb... for real― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), dinsdag 8 september 2020 13:44 bookmarkflaglink
― 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!
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 12 September 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3UVw_SZbMsMFR Souls - Amanikiniki (on a 20 tracks album called... Musical Kings, Amapiano is all about royalty)
― Nabozo, Sunday, 13 September 2020 11:45 (three years ago) link
...and about long-ass albums!
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Sunday, 13 September 2020 12:50 (three years ago) link
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)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Sunday, 20 September 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
this banger now has a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9_da2P5JjQFocalistic ft. Vigro Deep • Ke Star
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Sunday, 20 September 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
Stumbled upon these two articles while looking for sourceshttps://mixmag.net/feature/amapiano-south-africa-house-music-movement-gautenghttps://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
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
Thanks for those! The Mixmag piece in particular is interesting.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
Propulsion & Vibes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0YvDXksIw8DJ Lace ft. Khanye • Izint Ezinhle
― Regard the timeless piano balladeeress! (breastcrawl), Friday, 9 October 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
Loving all these *different* versions of amapiano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J91SWcOtx0MMr JazziQ ft. Reece Madlisa, Zuma, Mpura, Riky Rick & 9umba • VSOP
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 9 October 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
sorry, wasn't this the Zero12Finest thread?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaNEExJK-ecCalvin Fallo ft. Zero12Finest • No Strings Attached
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 9 October 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
fun TV performance of Busiswa's "SBWL":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01_H7TtNQ2c
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 October 2020 10:01 (three years ago) link
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.
― rob, Monday, 12 October 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
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.
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 October 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
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)
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 October 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
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)
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 October 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
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 • Lemonadeare not included on the album.
This other heavy hitter with Ma Lemon is though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FijCIxLVs1wSemi Tee ft. Ma Lemon • Vumani
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 October 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
(Everybody needs some) Amapiano relaxation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWo9vo9ZgvAKota Embassy ft. Cue • Sugar Mama
(possibly outvibing even DJ Stokie’s “Senorita”)
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
But maybe you want your amapiano to do more... damage?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q438fxYiar0Quexdeep • Damage
And, crucially:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKsfRZcPngsMapara A Jazz ft. Ntosh Gazi & Colano • John Vuli Gate
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 October 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
Seriously, the John Vuli Gate thing is *blowing up* in SA - it comes with A Challenge:
read about it here...
watch it here...
parodies abound...
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 October 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
Checked up on that Ntosh Gazi guy who's on "John Vula Gate", and this, from last year, is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpTCM5n8ZAsNtosh Gazi ft. BlackBoyCannon • Tshaba
(it has 25 views, whatever)
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
this is quite something from Busiswa:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Knx9Vi1MRMBusiswa ft. Mr JazziQ • MakaziBetween Mr JazziQ and Josiah De Disciple, JazziDisciples are having quite a year with all the stuff they’ve been involved with. Probably my favourite amapiano producers after Kabza (w/wo Maphorisa).
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Friday, 6 November 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
that's great, it's cool to hear how busiswa has adapted to amapiano beats
― ufo, Saturday, 7 November 2020 00:50 (three years ago) link
yeah, her vocal on this is amazing, unlike anything I’ve heard her do before
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Saturday, 7 November 2020 11:22 (three years ago) link