Out today on Honest Jon’s is Shangaan Shake, a compilation of the past year’s releases of Shangaan sounds from the new worlds of South African dance music. A joyride in high-tempo stutterment and shaking! Album features a ridiculous selection (!!!) of: DJ Rashad & DJ Spinn, Actress, MMM, Demdike Stare, Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer, Mark Ernestus, Hype Williams, RP Boo, Burnt Friedman, Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir’, Old Apparatus, Theo Parrish, Peverelist and Oni Ayhun. (Ho shit!) sOME favourites below (more clips over at HJ’S soundcloud here)……… zoom this the new sounds! It’s actually crazy how good this album is, buy the doubleCD here for ten pounds.

Mark Ernestus Presents Jeri-Jeri: Dub Dafa Nekh (clip)

Hype Williams Meets Shangaan Electro (clip)

Rashad and Spinn Meet Tshetsha Boys (clip)

R.P. Boo Meets Shangaan Electro (clip)

MMM Meets Tshetsha Boys (clip)


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“Who’s the best lyricist you say… Townes van Zandt, and I’ll say that wearing my cowboy boots on Bob Dylan’s coffee table” – Steve Earle

Townes Van Zandt, the Texas folk singer, rules. And although he doesn’t have a sassy backbeat, and has never killed anyone, he still reaches ya.

This is from a documentary about him, Be Here To Love.

Did it make me cry you say… Yes, and I’ll say that wearing my Doc. Martens on Drake’s glass drug table.

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