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Get Hype #1: Shangaan Electro

Get Hype #1: Shangaan Electro
(author: Rick)

I’m going to give a quick dissertation on what I intend “Get Hype” to be as a continued series of posts.  Feel free to skip ahead a couple paragraphs to read about this album. 

Every so often a person will ask me what I’m listening to or if I can recommend them anything.  Fact is, most of the time I don’t feel right recommending things to people I’m not intimately familiar with.  This is not to say I always come up empty with recommendations in person, but usually those recommendations are colored by what I might know of the asker’s tastes.  What if this music that I recommend is way off-base with this person’s personal leanings?  What if that discolors everything I say from that point on?  Well, that’d suck at the very least.  However, I’ve come to realize I don’t mind getting excited in general about anything on the internet (where the reader can instantaneously check these things out and make their own mind up).  In “Get Hype” I’ll spoon feed that information over.

I’ve already seen half-year best-of lists.  I think those are pretty silly.  We’ve had a few reviews up on our site lately too.  I might even do one or many in the future.  This doesn’t quite fit in those categories.  Some things just get me excited about music all over again.  Last year’s Cloaks album did that for me (which was on my year-end best-of 2009 list [yes, still silly]).  “Get Hype” is going to be reserved for albums that get me excited and perhaps even challenge my musical sensibilities (I do enjoy a challenge from time to time).  It won’t be a review so much as a general statement of, “Yo, I think this album is the bees’ knees, yo. I can totally jive to this, my doggies!  It is stupid fresh awesome def cool tubular to the max!”  Get it?  Get hype!

Various Artists “Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa” (Honest Jon’s Records)

So, here is the record that inspired this post.  Enjoy all the cut up reviews and videos and links.

“On the new compilation Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa, you can find 12 songs released by the Nozinja Music Productions studio in Soweto between 2006 and 2009.

Shangaan is dance music. It is electronically music based on the South African traditional music that’s popular in the areas between Johannesburg, Limpopo and Mozambique. It is an extremely fast and energetic hyperactive hybrid of the traditional mbira, or thumb piano, and synthesizers that can reach 180 beats per minute.  This genre is super popular in South Africa and tens of thousands of Shangaan records are sold each year. ” (The Smell Of Music)

“We don’t use the sounds of the hip-hop guys, or the afro-pop, or whatever, we’re using Shangaan sounds. The traditional Shangaan music is fast. You play it slow, they won’t dance.
Firstly it was played with bass and lead guitar. I’m the one revolutionized it, because when I came I didn’t use any guitar or any bass, I just used marimba and the organs. We are not using the live bass, we are using the marimba bass which is played from the organ. A small sample of voices, that’s what I specialize in. We use them in English. Those are the new aspects they never had before. At first people thought I was mad, and now it’s the in-thing” – Richard/Nozinja To Wills Glasspiegel, January 2010. (Honest Jon’s Records)

“The collection – lovingly compiled by Mark Ainley and Mark Ernestus (Rhythm & Sound, Hard Wax) – is hugely entertaining, and a fascinating insight into a musical phenomenon that has, up till now, been little-known outside of South Africa….it’s guaranteed to have you grinning like a loon” (FACT)

(And of course you can find more by clicking on the links in the videos.)

REDSCROLL has this for sale in the store on both LP and CD.

If you’d like to buy it through us online you can buy it on LP here: Shangaan Electro LP. You can buy it on CD from us here: Shangaan Electro CD

31st of August 2008 Update of New and Key Restocks

31st of August 2008 Update of New and Key Restocks
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s:
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Hasil Adkins “Peanut Butter…”
Tony Allen “Homecooking (2xLP)”
A.N.S. “the Pool”
Beezy “Thoughts in Retro (2×12″)”
Andrew Bird “Armchair Apocrypha”
the Business “Saturdays Heroes”
the Business “Welcome to the…”
the Business “Whole Truth”
Calexico “Descamino”
Ceremony “Still, Nothing”
A Certain Ratio “A Certain Ratio (2xLP)”
Choking Victim “No Gods”
Corrupted “Nadie”
Roky Erickson “Don’t Knock…”
Grizzly Bear “Yellow House”
Jaguar Love “Take me to the Sea”
Madvillain “Money Folder”
Off Minor “Some Blood”
Okkervill River “Black Sheep Boy”
Lee Perry & White Belly Rats “Panic… (2xLP)”
T. Raumschmiere “Animal”
Skaters “Physicalities”
Slipknot “Vol. 3: the Subliminal Verses”
Sound Dimension “Soul Shake (2xLP)”
Tommie Sunshine “Limit Rmx”
Tortoise “Standards”
Toxic Holocaust “An Overdose of Death”
U-Roy & Friends “Version (2xLP)”
Various Artists “Psycho on da Bus”
Brian Wilson “That Lucky Old Sun”
XI “G Funk/Lucky”

7″s:
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Bitter End “Bitter End”
Coliseum “Goddamage” (2×7″)
Creatures “Creatures”
Harms Way “Harms Way”
Noosebomb “Noosebomb (Pic7″)”

CDs:
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Aughra “Proof of Dark Matter”
Averett Brothers “Second Gleam”
Averett Brothers “Gleam EP”
Ceremony “Still, Nothing”
Chrome “Chrome Box (3xCD Deluxe Edition)”
Cobalt “Eater of Birds”
Disgust “War Deterrent”
Dragonforce “Ultra Beatdown (Special Edition)”
Alec Empire “Golden Foretaste of Heaven”
Faun Fables “Table Forgotten”
Forfeit “Visions”
Gaslight Anthem “59 Sound”
Grouper “Dragging a Dead…”
Hail of Bullets “Of Frost…”
Heavy Heavy Low Low “Turtle Nipple and the Toxic…”
Jaguar Love “Take me to the Sea”
Liturgy “Dawn of Ash”
Medeski, Martin & Wood “Zaebos”
New Lows “New Lows”
Nouvelle Vague “Nouvelle Vague”
Racebannon “Acid or Blood”
Rocket From the Crypt “All Systems Go 3”
Rotten Sound “Cycles”
slipknot “All Hope is Gone”
Toxic Holocaust “An Overdose of Death”
Various Artists “Slimewave Series”
Venom “Hell”
Winds of Plague “Decimate…”

DVDs:
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924 Gilman Street: Lets Talk…
Bad (Andy Warhol)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (Directors Cut)
Cannibal Holocaust (Deluxe Edition)
Delicatessen
Dr. Who Collection (the Movies)
Home Sick (Soundtrack by Zombi)
Nightmare Before Christmas (Collector’s Edition)
Spaced (Collector’s Edition; TV Show from the Shaun of the Dead dudes)

6th of June 2008 Update of New and Key Restocks

6th of June 2008 Update of New and Key Restocks
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s:
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Aethenor “Betimes Black”
A.H. Kraken “A.H. Kraken”
Amboy Dukes “Journey”
Animal Collective “Water Curses”
Annihilation Time “Tales of the Ancient Age”
Benga & Coki “Night”
J. Berberian “Expressions”
Big L “Ebonics/Size Em Up”
Johnny Cash “Sings Folsom Prison Blues”
Cheap Time “Cheap Time”
Curses “Hungry for Love”
Death Set “Worldwide”
Department of Eagles “Johnny Glaze Christmas”
DJ DSL “Invaders”
Eat Skull “Sick to Death”
Endless Blockade “Primitive”
Feadz “Happy Meal”
Grizzly Bear “Friend”
Hercules & Love Affair “Blind RMX”
Horrorpops “Kiss Kiss Kill Kill (Colored Vinyl)”
Justice “DVNO”
Kings of Nuthin “Fight Songs for Fuck-Ups”
Lair of the Minotaur “War Metal Battle Master”
Leftover Crack/Citizen Fish “Deadline”
Major Organ & the… “Major Organ & the…”
Mars Volta “Frances the Mute (3xLP)”
Meat Beat Manifesto “Autoimmune”
MGR/Xela “Split Series Vol. 1”
Minus the Bear “They Make Beer Commercials…”
Nine Inch Nails “Year Zero”
Off With Their Heads “Hospitals”
James Pants “Welcome (2xLP)”
Pinch “Chamber Dub”
Pocahaunted “Island Diamonds”
the Queers “Love Songs for…”
Screeching Weasel “Boogada”
Sean Smith “Sacred Crag Dancer”
Tacteel “Feel It Feel It”
v/a “Body of War: Songs That Inspire…”
v/a “Boogaloo Pow Wow”
Wild Style Soundtrack

CDs:
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Aethenor “Betimes Black”
Ellen Allien “Sool”
Annihilation Time “Tales of…”
Ascend “Ample Fire Within”
Stove Bredsky “Black Ribbon”
Cheap Time “Cheap Time”
Department of Eagles “Johnny Glaze Christmas”
Dosh “Wolves and Wishes”
Endless Blockade “Primitive”
Fern Knight “Fern Knight”
Fleet Foxes “Fleet Foxes”
French Kicks “Swimming”
From a Second Story Window “Conversations”
Gates of Slumber “Conqueror”
H20 “Nothing to Prove”
Harvey Milk “Life, the Best Game in Town”
Hour of the Wolf/Lewd Acts
Humanoid “Live at Bar”
Jaguar Love “EP”
Kataklysm “Prevail”
Scott Kelly “The Wake”
Ladytron “Velocifero”
Means “To Keep Me From Sin”
Murder By Death “Who Will Survive & What (2×10″)”
Murder By Death “In Bocca Al Lupo(2×10″)”
Opeth “Watershed (Special Edition)”
P.P. Nath “Raga Cycle”
Porcupine Tree “Lightbulb Sun (CD/DVD)”
Rhythm & Sound “SMY RMX CD”
Terry Riley “Last Camel in Paris”
Terry Riley “Piano Concerto”
Ulrich Schnauss “Strangely Isolated Place (2xCD)”
Shearwater “Rook”
Steinsky “What Does it All…”
Subtle “Exitingarm”
Sudden Infant “Psychotic”
They and the Children “Home”
Ting Tings “We Started Nothing”
Titles “Up with the Sun”
v/a “Basic Channel”
v/a “Wareika Hill Sounds”
Vetiver “Thing of the Past”
Steve Von Till “A Grave is a Grim Horse”
VSS “Nervous Circuits (+DVD)”
Frank Zappa “Strictly Commercial (Best of)”
Frank Zappa “Weasels Ripped My Flesh”

7″s:
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Annihilation Time “Cosmic”
ANS “Romancing the Phone”
Anti You “Making Your Life”
Byrds “Live in Holland”
Cheap Time “Handy Man”
Cheap Time “Spoiled Brat”
Coptic Times “Temptation”
Human Mess “Uncaged Animal”
Polic Thieves “Amor Y”
Shearing Pinx “Haruspex”
v/a “Bringing it Back”

DVDs:
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Godard: La Chinoise
Godard: Le Gai Savoir
Koyaanisqatsi/Powaqqatsi (2Pack)
Negative Approach: Can’t
Weeds Season 3
What Would Jesus Buy

Books/Zines:
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Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll #301 June 2008

15 February 2008 New and Key Restocked Items

15 February 2008 New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records

Records:
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Calexico “Hot Rail” LP
M. De Lorenzi “Coconut” 12″
Demon Fuzz “Afreaka” LP
Diplo/Deize Tigrona “Bandida” 7″
DJ Amazing Clay “Baile Funk 4″ 12”
Ed DMX/Asylum “Hardcore House” 12″
Escapee Planes “Perfume” 12″
Gossip “That’s Not What I Heard” LP
Gossip “Arkansas Heat” 10″
Grizzly Bear “Knife” 7″
Hacker and Eric Borgo “Zone” 12″
Hatcha “Just a Rift” 12″
Hektagon “Running Thru” 12″
Ital Tek “Deep Pools” 12″
Lowfish “Burn the Lights” 2xLP
MGMT “Oracular Spectacular” LP
Minus the Bear “Interpretaciones Del Oso (LTD)” LP
Misfits “Die Die My Darling” 12″
Monster Magnet “4-Way Diablo (LTD Import)” 2xLP
Nicolette “No Government” 12″
Os Mutantes “Os Mutantes” LP
Otis Redding “Soul Album” LP
Otis Redding “Dock of the Bay” LP
Jonathan Richman “Her Majesty Not of…” LP
Rocket from the Crypt “All Systems Go” 2xLP
Secret Agent Gel and Warrior Queen “Body” 12″
Slint “Slint” 10″
Various Artists “Black is Soul vol. 1” LP
Various Artists “License to Thrill Part 2″ 12”
Various Artists “An Uncommon Nature” LP
Wipers “Youth of America” LP

Compact Discs:
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City and Colour “Bring Me Your Love”
Electric Wizard “Let Us Prey”
Flower Travellin’ Band “Anywhere”
Front Line Assembly “Tactical Neural Implant & Millenium (2on1)”
Michael Jackson “Thriller – 25th Anniversary Edition (Independent Stores Version w/ extra track)”
Japancakes “Down the Elements”
Japancakes “Sleepy Strange”
Lowfish “Burn the Lights”
Nada Surf “Lucky”
Dan Sartain “Join Dan Sartain”
Sonic Sum “Films”
Sourvein “Ghetto Angel”

Digital Video Discs:
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42nd Street Forever vol. 3
Bullet Ballet
Grindhouse Experience vol. 2
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (40th Anniversary Edition)
(Assassination of) Jesse James
King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters
Neurosis: A Sun that Never Sets

Redscroll Records New and Key Restocked Items 24 January 2008

Redscroll Records New and Key Restocked Items 24 January 2008

Compact Discs:
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Big Left “World War Three Street CD”
Catalepsy “Godless”
Cat Power “Jukebox”
Cat Power “Jukebox” (deluxe 2xCD)
Envy “All the Footprints You’ve Ever…”
Full Blown Chaos “Wake the Demons”
Full Blown Chaos “Within the Grasp of Titans”
Hatebreed “Under the Knife”
Holy Fuck “LP”
Icepick “Violent Epiphany”
Legacy of Pain
Less than Jake “Pez-Core (special edition re-issue)”
The Moldy Peaches “Moldy Peaches”
Marissa Nadler “Songs III: Bird on the Water”
Palehorse “Secrets Within Secrets”
Pelican “After the Ceiling Cracked” (CD+DVD)
Red House Painters “Retrospective”
Right Brigade
The Risk Taken “End Commence”
Sabertooth Zombie “Midnight Venom”
Sledgehammer “Your Arsonist”
Sluts
Subzero “The Suffering of Man”
Sworn Enemy “Negative Outlook”
Thy Will Be Done “Was and Is to Come”
What Feeds the Fire
With Honor “Self Titled EP”
The Wrong Side “The Wrong Side of the Grave”

Records:
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Bright Eyes “I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (180 gram)” LP
By the End of Tonight “Tribute To Tigers, A…” LP
Daniel Johnston “Hi: How Are You (Unfinished Album)” LP
Kool Keith “Sex Style (Instrumentals)” 2xLP
M.I.A. “Arular” LP
M.I.A. “KALA” LP
Madvillain “Madvillainy” 2xLP
Mercury Program “From Vapor of Gasoline” LP
Pelican “Australasia (Colored)” 2xLP
Phantoms “Crashablanca”
Propagandhi “Potemkin City Limits” 2xLP
Sun Kil Moon “Tiny Cities” 2xLP
Unwound “Repetition” LP
Velvet Underground “Another View (180 gram)”
Velvet Underground “VU (180 gram)”

Digital Video Discs:
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American Commandos
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Black Christmas (Special Edition)
Blade Runner (Collector’s Edition: 4 Disc Set)
Blade Runner (Ultimate Collector’s Edition: 5 Disc Set)
Boston Beatdown 2
Cecil B. Demented
Clean
Dragon Family
The Eastpak Resistance Tour Volume I
Faces of Death (Box Set 1-4)
Fatso
Flight of the Conchords Season 1
Jesus Camp
Karas
Pecker
Visions of Suffering
Welcome to the Grindhouse: Dragon Princess & Karate Warriors

and Patches:
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