AmaPiano *Grooves*very useful playlist, tip of the hat to Spotify
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
yeah, sorry bout the "vibes". And thanks, breastcrawl!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
never be sorry about the vibes, longneck!
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I voted for Asijabule. It just has so much, that dark/light contrast someone mentioned, it's not just one thing repeating all the time. Thank you again for 2 Months of fun with this, please do more :-)
― StanM, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
plus, the light parts made me like the soulful part of amapiano more than I would have predicted in the beginning. So that, too.
― StanM, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 11 November 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
I think I voted for Paris but I regret not voting for Asijabule really
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 11 November 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
I voted for Paris, as it is in my top 5 songs of the year. There are other songs I love in here though (Mmapula and Isphithiphithi in particular!) and quite a few I discovered through this poll, so thanks a lot, breastcrawl! Let's do it again soon.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 11 November 2022 09:46 (one year ago) link
last call! 58 minutes left to vote for your favourite piano track!
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 November 2022 23:02 (one year ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 12 November 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
14 votes? boo! but still, all good tracks :-)
― StanM, Saturday, 12 November 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
14 votes ain't bad, think about it. We should do one of these every 3 months
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Saturday, 12 November 2022 04:42 (one year ago) link
result that someone else loves âCrush Yamâ.
ace poll - it introduced me to lots of grest music. what dog latin said....
― stirmonster, Saturday, 12 November 2022 05:01 (one year ago) link
I started my DJ set last night with some amapiano and got a good bunch of the early doors crowd grooving. My co-DJ whomst I was going B2B with followed it up with some more straight-up (but great) house and people just sort of shrugged and walked off. I couldn't have conceived of something like this happening just a year or so ago
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Saturday, 12 November 2022 10:38 (one year ago) link
âŚ.and we have a result!thanks to everyone who participated in this. I loved the enthusiasm everyone seemed to be feeling about this awesome genre!special thanks to the 13 voters (I was nr 14). âParisâ is a worthy winner and thereâs a nice spread of votes, with eight killer tracks receiving love, highlighting the awesome variety in the genre - because no, not every amapiano track sounds the same, like at all.is 13/14 votes a lot? hard to say, 43 people followed the playlist, so I may have expected more, but I have no idea what the going ratio is. Iâm still curious about the preferences of those non-voters tho (and about any other feedback). feel free to post them here - the poll is done, but the thread remains!I voted âAsijabuleâ myself, out of the 29 options it was my most played track. itâs going to be extremely high on my EOY ballot. it was wonderful to see people warming to it over the course of this poll. but I have to say, when I played the eight vote-getters just now, I was all in for âCrush Yamâ - what a track!(oh, in case you were wondering about the cinderella option, the one that was only there because it was the only eligible track for that letter of the alphabet (that is, I had played it once): it was âXigubhuâ by Welle SA (<1000 streams on Spotify) - and even that one is good!)
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 12 November 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
Thank you again for 2 Months of fun with this, please do more :-)
thanks a lot, breastcrawl! Let's do it again soon
We should do one of these every 3 months
ace poll - what dog latin said....
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 12 November 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
any links to Bandcamp pages for any of this stuff would be very much appreciated, seems like most of this is streaming only?
― sleeve, Saturday, 12 November 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
Iâm not really a Bandcamp user myself. my guess is that most of it wonât be found there - the Awesome Tapes stuff (Teno Afrika, DJ Black Low) being the exception to the rule, targeted as it is at a different (Western, indie-leaning, for want of a better word) audience.but perhaps other posters have different information/experiences?
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 12 November 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
beatport has more and more ama lately. couldn't find a lot of this poll but some artists are there.
― ęŽ (map), Saturday, 12 November 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
âAsijabuleâ is a UK release (Rinse FM, London) and is on Bandcamp:https://rinsefm.bandcamp.com/album/vigro-deep-asijabule-feat-murumba-pitch-lady-du
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 12 November 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
I get most of my amapiano and afro-pop downloads from 7Digital
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Sunday, 13 November 2022 04:58 (one year ago) link
the one that was only there because it was the only eligible track for that letter of the alphabet (that is, I had played it once): it was âXigubhuâ by Welle SA
i love that one so very happy it starts wth an 'x' or i'd never have heard it!
― stirmonster, Sunday, 13 November 2022 05:30 (one year ago) link
Iâm currently being hypnotized by this track:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LGkIAh7okChâcco ft. Focalistic x Mellow & Sleazy ⢠Pele Peledankie, my president!
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 13 November 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
I like how deconstructed and elastic Amapiano can be, its unpredictable bouncy skittering fluid dynamics, and I often find that in the rawer tracks, like this Pele Pele. Even if in the end top favorites are still the fully formed smooth diamonds, they need to distill some of that unpredictable primal soup, some of the skeletal tension. Maybe also why Amapiano likes to invite foreign sounds in and warp them to show off its Protean quality. I find myself thinking of the vocals in Amapiano as "toasting", as in deejay, I wonder if the South Africans have their own term for it (assuming it's not called simply rapping or singing). For some reason, Amapiano never sounded only like a house genre to me, it's a bit like another "sound culture" if I can draw such a distant parallel just based on how soulful, dark, experimental both genres are and how closely together they draw the producer and the vocals.
― Nabozo, Monday, 14 November 2022 09:28 (one year ago) link
and the genre's so... alive too! This one is currently on the number one spot on Spotify's AmaPiano Grooves playlist, "added 3 days ago"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdQ-74_lf7Y
DBN Gogo, Stixx, BoiBizza ft. MaWhoo - UYATHANDEKA
― StanM, Monday, 14 November 2022 10:27 (one year ago) link
xpost "foreign sounds" : like flamenco guitar in the track I just posted :-)
― StanM, Monday, 14 November 2022 10:28 (one year ago) link
xxp Nabozo OTM. It's hard to think of this as house music - it doesn't do the same thing; I don't dance to it or listen to it in the same way
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 14 November 2022 11:19 (one year ago) link
Since it's the time in the thread where we start pulling it in all directions like wolves, I'll post fresh stuff too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejlL0ARRF3IDj Maphorisa & Visca - iSandla (feat. Da Muziqal Chef, Thabza Tee & Malumnator)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXP493syN_wMellow & Sleazy - Elokishini (feat. Chley, Da Muziqal Chef & M.J.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-YRoPm0AVwMr JazziQ - Abuti Wadi Chipi (feat. Murumba Pitch, Zuma, Mzukulu)
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
Iâm still curious about the preferences of those non-voters tho (and about any other feedback). feel free to post them here - the poll is done, but the thread remains!
I can't remember if I voted, but I meant to vote for Crush Yam, so I was either the second vote after stirmonster or I should have been the third. Apologies!
anyway, very useful thread and the top +1 vote getters make a nice digestible survey. I tend to prefer the loungey/jazzy tracks to the harder ones, at least for repeat listening, though I just listened to 66 and Ncebeleka (both Felo Le Tee) and hearing those live would probably be amazing
― rob, Thursday, 17 November 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
it's actually Crush Yami apparently but anyway
― StanM, Thursday, 17 November 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
https://geo-static.traxsource.com/files/images/a157a054bc91d8d7c2424d931270f4a0.jpgin this case it *is* in fact âCrush Yamâ - however, the complete phrase in isiZulu, where vowels routinely get swallowed, is âcrush yamiâ, which simply means âmy crushâ.
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 November 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
oh! okay, thanks :-)
― StanM, Thursday, 17 November 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
in random piano tracks I canât stop playing right now, as we speak:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d7wJQHjfuMMzulu Kakhulu ft. Gaba Cannal ⢠Gibela (iGwijo Remix)(there are visuals, but they cover only 40% of the track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfN1l3apO90)
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link
maybe that video isn't the remix?
― StanM, Friday, 18 November 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
no, itâs the same mix. if there even is an earlier/original version theyâve hidden it very well.my point was more, enjoy the video (so many piano jams donât even have one), but the full length is were itâs really at. (also, weirdly, there is actually a radio edit of this song on Spotify, but itâs longer than this vid)most importantly tho, itâs a great track
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 19 November 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
true!
― StanM, Saturday, 19 November 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
only just learned that amapiano pioneer DJ Sumbody was murdered last Sunday. heartbreaking news: https://ra.co/news/78132the man has made some of my favourite music of the past five years. âAyepyepâ, his breakout hit in 2017, and âMonate Mpolayeâ (with Cassper Nyovest), a year later, may not have been fully developed amapiano yet, but they were definitely harbingers of the new sound. Ashi Nthwela, his only album, released in 2019, is a stone-cold classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1qDvmteVlwand then thereâs the gorgeous triumvirate of singles he made with producers The Lowkeys and singer Drip Gogo in 2021 and 2022, âIyamemezaâ, âAyavumaâ and âKorobelaâ, which are among the all-time best in soulful vocal piano.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t16VuAYgFUAI hope he can rest in peace.
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 26 November 2022 12:03 (one year ago) link
I forgot âKorobelaâ was in this poll too. âAyavumaâ is indispensable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4msf2Q6E8TE
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 26 November 2022 12:09 (one year ago) link
So is this the New Amapiano thread now?
Anyway, I really like the new Focalistic - Tsela Tse Nyanehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcJPFQP9T9Y
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 28 November 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
Havenât had the time to listen to the full album yet.Ghetto Gospel: https://open.spotify.com/album/195GWiPzBeREYEZv0sNnRN?si=KiPUphw1TYKjJl5TI7xzlg
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 28 November 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
It's hard to think of this as house music - it doesn't do the same thing; I don't dance to it or listen to it in the same wayâ Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), maandag 14 november 2022 12:19
â Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), maandag 14 november 2022 12:19
âMY HOUSE MY RULESâ dropping December 9th đď¸ giving you âPetori to Ibizaâ, the first single feat. @MJ today, out now! Youâre welcomeđ¤˛đžSTREAM AND PRE-ORDER IN BIO. pic.twitter.com/AnC8K9ZNuj— I am vigrodeep (@VigroDeep) December 1, 2022
"Petori to Ibiza": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUE-7jyyJUc
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 2 December 2022 11:11 (one year ago) link
"Tobetsa"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQB5xSpYXvc(Myztro, ShaunMusiq & Ftears - Tobetsa)
"Tobetsa Remake"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMen1pRNHGY(Myztro feat. Focalistic, DaliWonga, ShaunMusiq & Ftears - Tobetsa Remake)
"Tobetsa Remix"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY4CxI2a5Xo(Focalistic feat. Myztro, Shaunmusiq & Ftearse - Tobetsa Remix (Chomie Ke Changitse))
"Not Tobetsa"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4_0U7cSEAs(Emjaykeyz x DJ Yessonia x Sir Trill x Robot Boii x Babygirlmint x Bailey - Not Tobetsa)
― StanM, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
(I couldn't decide which of the first three I like more so here's all three)
― StanM, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
somehow part of this got added to the end of the Remake video there, apparently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeEgCPw1sQU(Kid Kerfy - Emergency)
― StanM, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPuiAUzz1B0Tyla - To Last
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pavS1pKadPUTyla ft. DJ Maphorisa, Young Stunna - To Last (Remix)
― StanM, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
An important addition to the train of Tobetsas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1tf_TxD00sDj mjava - tobetsa
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 8 December 2022 05:52 (one year ago) link
oooh, nice
― StanM, Thursday, 8 December 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
"To Last" is EOY worthy I reckon
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 8 December 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
two masters releasing their new albums today.Vigro DeepâŚhttps://www.ubetoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/vigro-deep-my-house-my-rules-album-2022_12_08_22_10_41-ubetoo.jpgâŚand, gasp, Kelvin Momo: https://i0.wp.com/afrohouseking.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Kelvin-Momo-Amukelani-Album.jpg
― I did see Xhaka crotchgrab (breastcrawl), Friday, 9 December 2022 07:44 (one year ago) link
These two together are more than 5 hours and 20 minutes! :D
― StanM, Friday, 9 December 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link