OT : (Was: it began in africa??)

[Hans Erik Nilsson <hasse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>  >hello,
>>do you know something about the electronic music in
>>africa? some artists, labels...??
>>recently i wrote some articles for some local
>>magazines, and i've mentioned many artists and labels
>>from usa, europe, australia, russia...  i'm interested
>>to find out about some people or labels who make or
>>release electronic music, and come from africa...
>>help!?  :)
>>
>>boban
>>
>>
>
>boban+++there're kalahari surfers from south africa, much in the
>recommended records vein (in fact they've released some stuff on chris
>cutler label).
>also way back in the 80's i was in touch with a south african boy called
>jay scott that was involved in producing some electronic music there (he
>had a cassette label called network 77, a band called sphinx and he also
>did a fanzine and stuff).
>as far as i can remember, he told me there was a quite lively scene in cape
>town.
>ciao :: nic
>

As for electronic music coming out of SA, there's something called 
Kwaito, sometimes spelled Quaito, which is a hybrid between hip-hop, 
house/techno and,of course, african music. Kwaito is sung or "spoken" 
in local language dialect and
the expression of the lyrics and musical content comes in several 
flavors, from what could be labelled as popmusic to agitative 
political statements. Other styles of SA "electronic" music are 
Mbaqanga and Bubblegum. Given that this scene is quite big in SA I 
would be very suprised if there were no experimentalists in there 
doing interesting things, although I have no evidence of this 
whatsoever.

/Cheers,
/Hasse

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