Hello, all! Sorry for my prior absence--work keeps me busy but I'm going to try and check in more often. Anyway, one of the guys at work is South African and if you're familiar with iTunes, you might know that if people are on the same network as you you can stream their music. So we all listen to each others' music at work and I just discovered the SA guy has a large collection of SA music. I'm excited to start listening to some of it but I was just wondering if any of the S. Africans here can recommend any of their favorite artists. This guy probably has them!
Elaine
Well, I like a lot of the psytrance stuff like Shift, Artifakt, Azak Syndrom, Menog, etc., but I also like other artists like Dream Soda, Insident, Fokofpolisiekar(!), the Finkelsteins, and old school bubblegum stuff from Yvonne Chaka Chaka and Brenda Fassie ( :cry: )... Oh wait a minute, I'm not South African! :? :wink:
Deborah
Well, um...all I know is Pata Pata, Miriam Makeba's 1967 international hit. I hated it! No, actually, the song was OK -- but I hated the stupid line dance that everyone was doing to it.
André in Zuid-Afrika
Re: SA music
Kirk wrote:
Hello, all! Sorry for my prior absence--work keeps me busy but I'm going to try and check in more often. Anyway, one of the guys at work is South African and if you're familiar with iTunes, you might know that if people are on the same network as you you can stream their music. So we all listen to each others' music at work and I just discovered the SA guy has a large collection of SA music. I'm excited to start listening to some of it but I was just wondering if any of the S. Africans here can recommend any of their favorite artists. This guy probably has them!
Hm, it depends on what kind of music you like. Afrikaans music, English South African music, and "black" South African music follow different roads to a large extent, each with a distinctive sound. English South African music for the most could just as well have been American.
Johnny Clegg (the white Zulu) and Ladismith Black Mambazo remain amongst my favourites as far as "black" South African music goes. Brenda Fassie was hugely popular here (she died earlier this year). Hugh Masekela is brilliant!
As for Afrikaans music, Laurika Rauch is the top female singer. Karen Zoid is great if you want to hear Afrikaans rock music, also Arno Carstens, solo as well as with his group, the Springbok Nude Girls. Gian Groen, Johannes Kerkorrel, Valiant Swart, Jan Blohm and Chris Chameleon are some of my favourite Afrikaans male singers.
And do give Fokofpolisiekar (yes, the name really means fuck off police car :roll: :lol: ) a try. They're the only Afrikaans punk rock band. They're extremely controversial, but their music is actually very good.
