Uganda powerhouse Nyege Nyege Tapes tend to the roots of gqom and amapiano - aka bacardi music - with a set of sinuous, rugged zingers by a pair of artists who grew up at the sound’s SA epicentre, Atteridgeville
Bacardi music is the missing link in the history of township funk between ‘90s bubblegum, ‘00s kwaito, and the influential emergence of gqom and amapiano in the 2010s. It was spearheaded in the early ‘00s by DJ Spoko, a protege of Shangaan electro boss Nozinja, and bears as many hallmarks of ‘90s bubblegum house as it does the seeds for styles that were yet to come. Anyone long enough in the tooth may well remember the sound of bacardi house and kwaito cropping up via blogs during the fertile era of cross-pollination that came with UKF - from Spoko’s flirtation with dirty Dutch house, to DJ Mujava’s cracking ‘Township Funk’, as picked up by Warp - and it still endures, in the moniker and flavour of Bacardi Fest, whose recent ama ace ‘Trip to Rotterdam’ is a big fave.
Decades later, trust NNT to pull up a haul of strong OGs from the sound’s leading figure, DJ Dadaman, still resonating hard with modern ‘floors, especially when combined with the timeless vox of Moscow Dollar, who would form the core of N’Wana Mhani Crew. Headed by the taut missile ‘Matalati’, the set runs down all-exclusive gear spanning the trancey stealth of ‘Vana Va Ndhoda’, the plucky bass thrum of ‘Munghana’, and hard kwaito-style snare punctuation on ’Nyoka’, subtly offset with syncopated thumb piano and the sort of warped electro-garage bassline on a standout ‘Vangoma’ that made the sound so compatible with ruder UK vibes, then slipping into deeper mode on ‘Khomelela.’
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Uganda powerhouse Nyege Nyege Tapes tend to the roots of gqom and amapiano - aka bacardi music - with a set of sinuous, rugged zingers by a pair of artists who grew up at the sound’s SA epicentre, Atteridgeville
Bacardi music is the missing link in the history of township funk between ‘90s bubblegum, ‘00s kwaito, and the influential emergence of gqom and amapiano in the 2010s. It was spearheaded in the early ‘00s by DJ Spoko, a protege of Shangaan electro boss Nozinja, and bears as many hallmarks of ‘90s bubblegum house as it does the seeds for styles that were yet to come. Anyone long enough in the tooth may well remember the sound of bacardi house and kwaito cropping up via blogs during the fertile era of cross-pollination that came with UKF - from Spoko’s flirtation with dirty Dutch house, to DJ Mujava’s cracking ‘Township Funk’, as picked up by Warp - and it still endures, in the moniker and flavour of Bacardi Fest, whose recent ama ace ‘Trip to Rotterdam’ is a big fave.
Decades later, trust NNT to pull up a haul of strong OGs from the sound’s leading figure, DJ Dadaman, still resonating hard with modern ‘floors, especially when combined with the timeless vox of Moscow Dollar, who would form the core of N’Wana Mhani Crew. Headed by the taut missile ‘Matalati’, the set runs down all-exclusive gear spanning the trancey stealth of ‘Vana Va Ndhoda’, the plucky bass thrum of ‘Munghana’, and hard kwaito-style snare punctuation on ’Nyoka’, subtly offset with syncopated thumb piano and the sort of warped electro-garage bassline on a standout ‘Vangoma’ that made the sound so compatible with ruder UK vibes, then slipping into deeper mode on ‘Khomelela.’
Uganda powerhouse Nyege Nyege Tapes tend to the roots of gqom and amapiano - aka bacardi music - with a set of sinuous, rugged zingers by a pair of artists who grew up at the sound’s SA epicentre, Atteridgeville
Bacardi music is the missing link in the history of township funk between ‘90s bubblegum, ‘00s kwaito, and the influential emergence of gqom and amapiano in the 2010s. It was spearheaded in the early ‘00s by DJ Spoko, a protege of Shangaan electro boss Nozinja, and bears as many hallmarks of ‘90s bubblegum house as it does the seeds for styles that were yet to come. Anyone long enough in the tooth may well remember the sound of bacardi house and kwaito cropping up via blogs during the fertile era of cross-pollination that came with UKF - from Spoko’s flirtation with dirty Dutch house, to DJ Mujava’s cracking ‘Township Funk’, as picked up by Warp - and it still endures, in the moniker and flavour of Bacardi Fest, whose recent ama ace ‘Trip to Rotterdam’ is a big fave.
Decades later, trust NNT to pull up a haul of strong OGs from the sound’s leading figure, DJ Dadaman, still resonating hard with modern ‘floors, especially when combined with the timeless vox of Moscow Dollar, who would form the core of N’Wana Mhani Crew. Headed by the taut missile ‘Matalati’, the set runs down all-exclusive gear spanning the trancey stealth of ‘Vana Va Ndhoda’, the plucky bass thrum of ‘Munghana’, and hard kwaito-style snare punctuation on ’Nyoka’, subtly offset with syncopated thumb piano and the sort of warped electro-garage bassline on a standout ‘Vangoma’ that made the sound so compatible with ruder UK vibes, then slipping into deeper mode on ‘Khomelela.’
Uganda powerhouse Nyege Nyege Tapes tend to the roots of gqom and amapiano - aka bacardi music - with a set of sinuous, rugged zingers by a pair of artists who grew up at the sound’s SA epicentre, Atteridgeville
Bacardi music is the missing link in the history of township funk between ‘90s bubblegum, ‘00s kwaito, and the influential emergence of gqom and amapiano in the 2010s. It was spearheaded in the early ‘00s by DJ Spoko, a protege of Shangaan electro boss Nozinja, and bears as many hallmarks of ‘90s bubblegum house as it does the seeds for styles that were yet to come. Anyone long enough in the tooth may well remember the sound of bacardi house and kwaito cropping up via blogs during the fertile era of cross-pollination that came with UKF - from Spoko’s flirtation with dirty Dutch house, to DJ Mujava’s cracking ‘Township Funk’, as picked up by Warp - and it still endures, in the moniker and flavour of Bacardi Fest, whose recent ama ace ‘Trip to Rotterdam’ is a big fave.
Decades later, trust NNT to pull up a haul of strong OGs from the sound’s leading figure, DJ Dadaman, still resonating hard with modern ‘floors, especially when combined with the timeless vox of Moscow Dollar, who would form the core of N’Wana Mhani Crew. Headed by the taut missile ‘Matalati’, the set runs down all-exclusive gear spanning the trancey stealth of ‘Vana Va Ndhoda’, the plucky bass thrum of ‘Munghana’, and hard kwaito-style snare punctuation on ’Nyoka’, subtly offset with syncopated thumb piano and the sort of warped electro-garage bassline on a standout ‘Vangoma’ that made the sound so compatible with ruder UK vibes, then slipping into deeper mode on ‘Khomelela.’
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Uganda powerhouse Nyege Nyege Tapes tend to the roots of gqom and amapiano - aka bacardi music - with a set of sinuous, rugged zingers by a pair of artists who grew up at the sound’s SA epicentre, Atteridgeville
Bacardi music is the missing link in the history of township funk between ‘90s bubblegum, ‘00s kwaito, and the influential emergence of gqom and amapiano in the 2010s. It was spearheaded in the early ‘00s by DJ Spoko, a protege of Shangaan electro boss Nozinja, and bears as many hallmarks of ‘90s bubblegum house as it does the seeds for styles that were yet to come. Anyone long enough in the tooth may well remember the sound of bacardi house and kwaito cropping up via blogs during the fertile era of cross-pollination that came with UKF - from Spoko’s flirtation with dirty Dutch house, to DJ Mujava’s cracking ‘Township Funk’, as picked up by Warp - and it still endures, in the moniker and flavour of Bacardi Fest, whose recent ama ace ‘Trip to Rotterdam’ is a big fave.
Decades later, trust NNT to pull up a haul of strong OGs from the sound’s leading figure, DJ Dadaman, still resonating hard with modern ‘floors, especially when combined with the timeless vox of Moscow Dollar, who would form the core of N’Wana Mhani Crew. Headed by the taut missile ‘Matalati’, the set runs down all-exclusive gear spanning the trancey stealth of ‘Vana Va Ndhoda’, the plucky bass thrum of ‘Munghana’, and hard kwaito-style snare punctuation on ’Nyoka’, subtly offset with syncopated thumb piano and the sort of warped electro-garage bassline on a standout ‘Vangoma’ that made the sound so compatible with ruder UK vibes, then slipping into deeper mode on ‘Khomelela.’