shangaan electro // “vanghoma”
"We don't use the sounds of the hip-hop guys, or the afro-pop, or whatever, we're using Shangaan sounds. The traditional Shangaan music is fast. You play it slow, they won't dance."
In case you missed this glowing review of the mindblowing new Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music from South Africa compilation we've had on blast for the last few weeks, the good dudes at Honest Jon's have hooked us up with a track from the comp for you to download. This bizarre collection sounds like the future, with its cheaply made, incredibly uplifting/infectious, lightning-fast dance jams, like this moving soul-stirrer from sister duo Tiyiselani Vomaseve, who are apparently the queens of this:
Buy Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music from South Africa -- which is rocking arguably the best cover art of 2010 -- on 2xLP here.
"When you see them dance you feel like they have got no bones."