Deep House and Garage

[pattycakes_]

culoe de song exploded in south africa around 2009/10


was at a club in 2010 called la reference in cape town one night and they were playing this kind of shit. was an old 60s disco. all walls covered in mirrors. everyone was dancing as if they were choreographed. the same moves all in sync. like a music video. powerful stuff. heady, hypnotic loops interspersed with the bittersweet.

south africa's house scene was something else. the main distribution hubs were the taxi ranks. people swapping usb sticks. new tracks coming out every week. healthy competition. the 'taxis' were actually communal minibuses going on set routes, so people would be on their way to work or into town to do a bit of shopping with the deepest house music getting blasted out the custom sound systems. house is to south africa what hiphop is to america. maybe even more integral. the ancestral shit right there on display.

 

[pattycakes_]

after aphartheid freed up the flow of foreign music they got their hands on us house imports and started to make their own. originally taking the tempo down closer to a hiphop tempo and calling it kwaito, afaik this was because they were into drinking lean back then, so a bit like the chopped and screwed thing going on in houston, they were into things being extra slow. but over time they pitched up the tables and got closer to the 120 standard

 

[pattycakes_]

the original version on youtube of this sounded like it had been compressed to fuck on cassette or maybe recorded off the telly onto VHS and then mangled some more by youtubes compression. for once that was actually a good thing because the sound was extra thick and raw. there was also an amazing video of people dancing in the townships to go with it. but for some reason the two extant uploads of that version now stutter and make it unlistenable. will have to make do with this less dirty and less entertaining version. hard to say what it is that makes it such a special track. stripped to the bone. the bassline relentless. the drums never letting you quite know what they're going to do and the interplay of the harmonies and that earworm melody. hauntingly infectious

 

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keep em coming patty these kwaito tunes are niiiiccce

 

[pattycakes_]

Casablanca - Mzo Bullet - Clyp

Youtube Compress Mix

clyp.it

here's the youtube version i luckily ripped years ago. fat as feck

 

[pattycakes_]

keep em coming patty these kwaito tunes are niiiiccce

i'll try. loads of the ones i love aren't on youtube or anywhere tbh. just my hd!


they have a knack for catchy and raw

 

[pattycakes_]

big nuz was massive back then. i'm way out of date. and talk about an ever evolving scene. most of what i love is oooold (10 years) hard to keep up with it not actually being there


but damn. the parties were something else. hard to explain them without diving into risky territory. you just knew that this was their shit and they lived and breathed it. never made it to a township rave unfortunately. that must have been next level

 

[pattycakes_]

they'd get everyone bent out of shape and rowdy with a bunch of those ^ and then just throw in a sweet one like this to bring you back down to earth

 

[pattycakes_]

bit of the more slowed down classic kwaito

 

[pattycakes_]

uplift

dirty harry on the mix

 

[WashYourHands]

uplift

^
Simon DK monster tune.

Into v early Charles Webster

 

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[pattycakes_]

 

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Raucous tune and a half, into

 

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[pattycakes_]

n2

 

[WashYourHands]

edit it takes 4mins to get to the meat on the bones

 

[pattycakes_]

^the wait is worth it^


#fierce

 

[WashYourHands]

if only YT had a decent pitch control I could just about blend this in for a trance out segue

 

[pattycakes_]

techno, but

(was more about the post number)