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
to be clear: *her vocal on this* is unlike anything I’ve heard her do before, she’s been plenty amazing in the past as well obviously
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Saturday, 7 November 2020 11:25 (three years ago) link
this is fucking great
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 November 2020 15:05 (three years ago) link
oh my god, "Makazi" people! i'm not kidding! don't sleep on this!
that vocal breakdown at 4'25 is e-ve-ry-thing
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Saturday, 14 November 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
Loving the aggressive hip hop into Amapiano vibes of Da Les’ Elon Musk, featuring some familiar voices:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ4eWa7v-Bo
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 14 November 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
moodypiano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n60B5bPQfx8Solid T ft. Mr Madumane • Kom Kyk
does this feature the *real* Madumane (ie Maphorisa's rap alias?) or just someone who sounds quite like him and mentions his name a lot? either way, this is one groovy jam.
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Saturday, 14 November 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
As a Dutchie, I’m fascinated by the occasional Afrikaans (loan)words and phrases in the lyrics of Zulu/Xhosa/etc music genres. Here the track title is Afrikaans, it means “Come (have a) look”.
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Saturday, 14 November 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
Yeah there's a good number of Afrikaans words that have passed in South African English. Braai. Askies. Buckie. Lekker. Not even getting into the food (Boerewors, Vetkoek). When I was staying there the landlord's 5-year-old daughter would be coming to visit us at the cottage, and her English was full of Afrikaans and it was very fun trying to decipher what she was saying. We'd be asking her "did you have a good slaapie Kara ?", "what did you kyked ?". When we returned last year, she had grown up and her English was perfect (and little Boer accent thank God).I also still can't get enough that South Africans call a traffic light a "robot". 'Short left after robot'.
― Nabozo, Sunday, 15 November 2020 11:36 (three years ago) link
I forgot an obvious one: voetsek !
― Nabozo, Sunday, 15 November 2020 11:37 (three years ago) link
one of the most surprising examples to me is “verstaan(a)” (‘understand’) in the Xhosa lyrics of Tresor & Msaki’s “Sondela” (not amapiano obviously).
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Sunday, 15 November 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
about that “verkoek”:https://static.raru.co.za/cover/2014/04/11/130398-l.jpg?v=1397170800
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Sunday, 15 November 2020 13:49 (three years ago) link
damn, “vetkoek”
does "askies" just mean "I'm sorry"?
― rob, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
yep, same word as “excuse”, but (I think) instead derived from the Dutch “excuus”
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:32 (three years ago) link
the above confirmed ✅(in Afrikaans it’s spelled “ekskuus” tho, with “askies” being the colloquial version that’s used in other SA languages as well)
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
dank je!
― rob, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
Busiswa just dropped a new album, My Side of the Story. The tracklist suggests it's very amapiano-heavy.
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Sunday, 22 November 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
it must be the December season!
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Sunday, 22 November 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
it's good!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 November 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
i kinda think Makazi is a competitor for best song of the year
beautypiano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlG_6eqLCuoZain SA • Ina Iyeza
― Running up that hill but fleeting (a deal with Gop) (breastcrawl), Sunday, 29 November 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
How about some TanzaPiano?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJXB8kqKMOkMarioo ft. Sho Madjozi & Bontle Smith • Mama Amina
(made with generous help from South Africa obviously)
― fat ass deep state operative (breastcrawl), Thursday, 3 December 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
The Busiswa album is good, much better than the forgettable rush job that was her previous, Summer Life, two years ago - but not as good as Highly Flavoured before it imo. Wish she would have made good on the promise of tracks 1 and 3, where (like on “Makazi”) she uses her voice differently. Her singing voice on “Dololo” in particular is nothing short of spectacular. Quite the mission statement, I thought, but apart from “Bonnie & Clyde” she doesn’t really back it up on the rest of the album. Still, “SBWL” and especially “Makazi” are among the best singles of the year and there’s two strong tracks from the Mas/Kabza/Maphorisa camp.
― fat ass deep state operative (breastcrawl), Thursday, 3 December 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
loving this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdkPvFE2wac
Falz ft. Niniola - Squander
― where do all these unsold amps go? (gaudio), Friday, 4 December 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
prime naijapiano!
― fat ass deep state operative (breastcrawl), Friday, 4 December 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
got around to Busiswa's My Side of the Story and i pretty much agree with breastcrawl - it's not quite the tour de force that Highly Flavoured was, but still a welcome return to form after Summer Life was such a disappointment
― ufo, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 09:14 (three years ago) link
anywhere you can buy 320s for ama or just amazon/itunes?
― vvvwwwv, Saturday, 19 December 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
7digital is probably your best bet
― ufo, Sunday, 20 December 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
nice 1, can't find everything but there's a decent amount on there.
― vvvwwwv, Sunday, 20 December 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
I'll be giving a talk and doing an amapiano set tomorrow at the school I teach at, so I was just wondering if anyone had any particularly good articles about the genre that they'd like to share? It would be appreciated.(I thought I'd show the yoof the Shaya! documentary.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B9frOKUwz0
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link
from upthread:
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, woensdag 23 september 2020 20:07Thanks for those! The Mixmag piece in particular is interesting.― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), woensdag 23 september 2020 21:35
― Nabozo, woensdag 23 september 2020 20:07
Thanks for those! The Mixmag piece in particular is interesting.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), woensdag 23 september 2020 21:35
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
I'll be giving a talk and doing an amapiano set tomorrow at the school I teach at
would love to hear more about this! what age are the students? is this part of a larger curriculum or more of a one-time thing?
― rob, Friday, 8 January 2021 15:23 (three years ago) link
The 20 Best Amapiano Songs of 2020 according to OkayAfrica, the blurbs are quite interesting:
https://www.okayafrica.com/best-amapiano-songs-of-2020/?rebelltitem=15#rebelltitem15
About breaking amapiano worldwide:
https://www.okayafrica.com/amapiano-who-will-introduce-to-the-world-op-ed/
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
(of those 20, the best for me are unquestionably "Ilog Drum" and "Jazzidisciples (Zlele)", both nominated for the EOY <<hint, hint>>)
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
Thanks! They're between 19 and 63, lol, with most of them being in their late teens, early twenties. The school is part of the Norwegian "folkehøgskole" system, which means there are no exams and thus no set curriculum, but it's geared towards humanist values and lots of teaching of philosophy, literature, art, international politics, creative writing, etc, which basically means I can do whatever I want to, lol. (We're lucky enough to have stayed open throughout the pandemic thus far.)
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:54 (three years ago) link
and thanks, breastcrawl! What would you guys say was the very first ama-hit to break into the mainstream?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 8 January 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
more articles:
https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/amapiano-what-it-all-about
https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/the-latest/amapiano/12771394 (short but quite incisive)
(Mixmag piece def the best tho imo)
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Friday, 8 January 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
pretty sure that was Kwiish SA's "Iskhathi (Gong Gong)" (first months of 2019). MFR Souls ft. TallArseTee's "Bamb’ikhanda" was a prettyy crucial track as well, but I don't think it actually charted.
these were my first ramblings about it on Rolling Afropop back then: rolling Afropop / Afrobeats / Afrodance 2019
xp
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Friday, 8 January 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
thanks - that's great stuff
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 8 January 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
thanks for the response, longneck. I hate to be one of those north americans who romanticizes scandinavian social policy without having ever been there, but those schools sound great and it would be nice to live in a culture where lifelong learning was considered a good thing
― rob, Friday, 8 January 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
finally getting around to kabza de small's i am the king of amapiano: sweet & dust and oh my god why is this 3 hours long lmao
― ufo, Friday, 8 January 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
gotta listen all the way till the end tho - there’s a weak patch in the middle (those guitar tracks), but the best tracks are in the Dust section at the back
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Friday, 8 January 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
have just hit the guitar tracks patch and yeah these tracks are just too chill even for amapiano. i would love this guitar noodling if there was a little more going on but it seems to just aim for ambience rather than balearic-esque transcendence
― ufo, Friday, 8 January 2021 21:19 (three years ago) link
hope you made it through that section. would be worth it.
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Saturday, 9 January 2021 23:35 (three years ago) link
i made it through the whole album and it was overall pleasant of course but truly too much as a whole, hard to pick up on the back section being the strongest part bc of how it all blends together in an album that long
― ufo, Sunday, 10 January 2021 01:52 (three years ago) link
late advice, but: maybe try “Ilog Drum” and “Balanc’Ise” - best tracks on the album imo, and very different from what’s going on in the first half
― get down, get down, get down / why piano wenza so? (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 10:14 (three years ago) link
anyway, here to celebrate the fact that “Jazzidisciples (Zlele)” placed in the EOY, at #65, too low of course, but I’ll take it.reposting the video in its honour:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGvAKp3fOqg
― get down, get down, get down / why piano wenza so? (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 10:17 (three years ago) link