RE: [microsound] OT : (Was: it began in africa??)

["Rudy Carrera" <fgrecs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hasse;

This is extremely fascinating.  Have you any knowledge of websites that
would cover these genres?  I'd really like to look into them, to see
what's happening in Africa.  My knowledge of new music there is woefully
bad.

Regards,
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Rudy Carrera
Fal=E7ata-Galia Recordings & Tariff Records
PO Box 134
Rialto, California  92377 USA
http://www.falcata-galia.com
http://www.tariffrecords.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Erik Nilsson [mailto:hasse@xxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 3:36 PM
To: microsound
Subject: [microsound] OT : (Was: it began in africa??)

>  >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=20
Kwaito, sometimes spelled Quaito, which is a hybrid between hip-hop,=20
house/techno and,of course, african music. Kwaito is sung or "spoken"=20
in local language dialect and
the expression of the lyrics and musical content comes in several=20
flavors, from what could be labelled as popmusic to agitative=20
political statements. Other styles of SA "electronic" music are=20
Mbaqanga and Bubblegum. Given that this scene is quite big in SA I=20
would be very suprised if there were no experimentalists in there=20
doing interesting things, although I have no evidence of this=20
whatsoever.

/Cheers,
/Hasse

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