The 2010 FIFA World Cup has attracted nationalists the world over to Johannesburg, South Africa, for a month-long party, marked by the occasional soccer game and punctuated by everyone's favorite new ...

Ten years ago in Limpopo, South Africa’s most northerly province, a brand new sound was born from ancient folk traditions. Shangaan electro combined rapid-fire marimba melodies popping off at nearly ...

You may have noticed over the past few weeks that I have been repping the Africa 2010 theme hard lately. So when Wills Glasspiegel—an Afropop Worldwide producer who also oversaw The Very Best’s Warm ...

‘We want to show fans how to dance to our music; the shaking of the waist, moving arms and legs in the right way. It’s truly an art form at its best and they need to share the feeling of doing it with ...

The UK label will release “fresh tracks” from the producer in the coming months, with a new live show planned for this Summer. Nozinja is considered the originator of Shangaan Electro, a lightspeed ...

It is, they say, all in the waist. Ladies: fling your head to the heavens and flail one leg at terminal velocity. Gents: sling an animal hide round your midriff and engage in warp-speed stomping. Et ...

You may remember last year some charming videos that were doing the rounds showing some particularly crazy South African dancers throwing down to music that sounded like it had been beamed straight ...

Shangaan Electro, based in Soweto, South Africa, play a superhuman steel-plated version of traditional Shangaan. Where once the music, which hails from rural Limpopo, was a mix of fluid guitar lines ...

An almost wholly unrooted and original dance music, this emerging South African sound marries hyper-quick, cheap electronics with soulful vocals. Save this story Save this story Speed in music can be ...

Nozinja is the South African artist, producer and DJ who has masterminded a 21st century reboot of indigenous folk tradition, Tsonga disco, kwaito and house to create the Afro-futurist dance music ...