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The teenage duo channel the newest mutation of their country’s house music, amapiano, coaxing us back to the shared space of the dancefloor
House music, and the glorious tension between its on-beat and its syncopated elements, has long been a sound associated with South Africa. From the languorous tempos of sample-heavy kwaito, a subgenre established in post-apartheid townships in Johannesburg, to the Pretorian call-and-response of diBacardi, and the adrenalised polyrhythms of gqom – a raw, bass-heavy recapitulation of kwaito, founded in the early 2010s in Durban – these dance musics have often been a vital means of self-expression for the country’s socially segregated youth.
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Continue reading...by Ammar Kalia via Electronic music | The Guardian
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