Apr 28, 2014
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South Africa's Spoek Mathambo - Let Them Talk. He's coined a new genre, 'Township Tech', referring to the new direction in which Spoek and his contemporaries are taking South African house music. This song is nothing like Township Techno however. Check out Spoek's soundcloud for music from his new mixtape 'Escape from '85' that is unabashedly fun and energetic, sure to brighten up any gloomy Sunday. The mixtape is free to download here.
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Afro-Synth is a must-visit site for anyone interested in popular music from southern Africa. As Spoek Mathambo has mentioned, there was a lot of interesting stuff being put out in SA in the 1980s. A lot of it is super cheesy too of course (I mean it was the 80s after all) but tune your ear in the right direction and you can hear how the Township Tech thing and SA house music would have evolved from this kinda stuff. The best part of this site is that the curator, one Mr. DJ Okapi, has kindly compiled some remarkable mixtapes of the best of the era, mixing struggle songs with love songs that will have you swooning over civil disobedience in no time.
Spoek Mathambo, "Control".
I was chatting with an exchange student from South Africa yesterday who introduced me to Spoek Mathambo. A self-described "township tech" artist, the guy made his first appearance in 2008; the album "Mshini Wam" from which this song is taken came out in 2010.
The video for "Control" has a stunning visual aesthetic that complements the minimalism of the song. It's quite spooky - fittingly, since "Spoek" translates to "ghost" from Afrikaans. As Dazed Digital writes,
In collaboration with one of South Africa's most influential photographers Pieter Hugo, and cinematographer Michael Cleary, the new video explores township cults and teen gangs. Shot on location in a squatted train boarding house in Langa, Cape Town, the video features a cast mostly made up of local neighborhood kids who run their own dance troop, Happy Feet.
If you're looking around for reviews, you'll find Control - a remake of the Joy Division song "She's Lost Control" - described as 'darkwave township house', and when Spoek Mathambo is mentioned, the term "afro-futurist" is never too far.
Further Sources:
Dusted review of Mshini Wam.
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Spoek Mathambo - Gunboat
Lil B, Spoek Mathambo, Deyarmond Edison, and Diddy at the Fader Fort
Spoek Mathambo played an amazing set at the Fader Fort to a dead-eyed crowd that was sadly more excited about watching Kanye West dance to township tech than listening to it. But Mathambo, undeterred, leapfrogged energetically about the stage with a lone saxophonist for accompaniment, opening bravely with a rather avant-garde jam about blood diamonds.
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Spoek Mathambo - Control
Cover of Joy Division's "She's Lost Control" from the album Mshini Wam