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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

10th of August 2008 Update of New and Key Restocks

10th of August 2008 Update of New and Key Restocks
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s:
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Abe Vigoda “Skeleton”
Tony Allen “Lagos Shake (2xLP)”
Anaal Nathrakh “Hell Is Empty…”
Anti-Nowhere League “We Are the League (PicLP)”
Astro/Hiroshi Hasegawa “Live”
Atlas Sound “Let the Blind (2xLP)”
Black Moon “Enta Da Stage”
Brian Jonestown Massacre “Just Like Kicking Jesus (Color)”
Byrds “Fifth Dimension”
Clinic “funf”
CSS “Donkey”
Cut Copy “In Ghost Colours”
Defiance Ohio “Great Depression”
Endless Blockade/Hatred Surge
Ergs “Dork Rock Cork Rod”
Faint “Fasciination”
Charlotte Gainsbourg “5:55”
Iron Maiden “Somewhere Back in Time (Best of)”
Kalbata “Shooting Range”
Leila “Blood Looms and Blooms”
K. Makoto “We Dont Know”
Meneguar “The In Hour”
Nas “Nas (Explicit)”
Ninjasonik “Tight Pants EP”
Conor Oberst “Conor Oberst”
Oneida “Preteen Weaponry”
Pygmy Lush “Mount Hope”
Ragga Twins “Step Out! Pt. 1 (2xLP)”
Skream “Hedd Banger”
Stereolab “Margerine Eclipse”
Stereolab “Serene Velocity: Anthology (2xLP)”
Stereolab “First of Microbe”
Tricky “Council Estate”
Various Artists “ZZK Sound Vol. 1”
Wareika Hill Sounds
Wolves in the Throne Room “Two Hunters”

CDs:
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Acid Mothers Temple “Acid Motherly”
Architects “Ruin”
Astro/Hiroshi Hasegawa “Echo”
Asva “Futurists Against…”
Bass Communion “Molotov”
Maurizio Bianchi “Armagheddon”
Chrome “Chrome Box (3xCD Deluxe Edition)”
Clinic “funf”
CSS “Donkey”
Deadbird “Twilight Ritual”
Kevin Drumm “Imperial Distortion (2xCD)”
Eat Skull “Sick to Death”
Endless Blockade “Primitive”
ESG “A South Bronx Story”
Faint “Fasciination”
Gorgoroth “True Norwegian… (Live Grieghal)”
Keiji Haino “New Rap”
Hawthorne Heights “Fragile Future”
Tim Hecker “Mirages”
Helms Alee “Night Terror”
Ida “My Fair My Dark EP”
Leila “Blood Looms and Blooms”
Lukas Ligeti “Afrikan Mach”
Muslimgauze “Jah-mearab”
Nine Inch Nails “The Slip”
Norma Jean “Anti Mother”
Conor Oberst “Conor Oberst”
One Day as a Lion “One Day as a Lion”
Oneida “Preteen Weaponry”
Oxford Collapse “Bits”
Pentemple “O))) Presents”
Pole “Pole 1 2 3 (3xCD)”
Thee Oh Sees “Sucks Blood”
Tickley Feather “Tickley Feather”
U.S. Christmas “Eat the Low Dogs”
Various Artists “Ed Banger Records Vol. III”
Various Artists “A Perfumed Garden Vol. 1”
Zozobra “Bird of Prey”
Zs “Hard EP”

7″s:
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Dark Meat/Diplo (Whirlychunk)

DVDs:
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Blind Dead Collection (Coffin Box)
Machine Girl
Still We Ride
The Tracey Fragments
Xanadu (Magical Music Edition)

28th of June 2008 Update of New and Key Restocks

28th of June 2008 Update of New and Key Restocks
at Redscroll Records

CDs:
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Anniversary “Devil on Our Side (2xCD)”
Antiseen “Best of”
Baldelli/Dionigi “Cosmic…”
Bonnie “Prince” Billy “Lie Down in Light”
Cancer Bats “Hail Destroyer”
Damiera “Quiet Mouth Loud Hands”
Eat Skull “Sick to Death”
Emeralds “Solar Bridge”
Infinite Livez vs. Stade “Morgan Freeman’s…”
Ital Tek “Cyclical”
Joy Division “Let the Movie Begin”
Killing the Dream “Fractures”
King Khan and the Shrines “Supreme Genius of…”
LaGrecia “On Parallels”
Less than Jake “GNV FLA”
Lions “Jungle Struttin'”
Man is the Bastard “Sum of…”
Nellie McKay “Pretty Little Head (2xCD)”
Motley Crue “Saints of Los Angeles”
My Morning Jacket “Evil Urges”
Nadja “Bliss Torn from Emptiness”
Nurse with Wound “Huffin’ Rag Blues”
Odd Nosdam “Pretty Swell Explode”
Pelt “Dauphin Elegies”
Jay Reatard “Singles 06-07” (CD+DVD)
Sabretooth Zombie “Mere Bears: Riot Cops Bathed”
Swallow the Sun “Morning Never Came”
Take it Back “Can’t Fight Robots”
Various Artists “Sounds of American Cults vol. 14”
Various Artists “Evangeline (Mary Anne Hobbes Presents)”
Various Artists “Royalty EP (T&A 009)”
Various Artists “Autobot”
Various Artists “200% Dynamite (Dancehall, Reggae…)”
Various Artists “Bokan!”
Vast Aire “Dueces Wild”
Venetian Snares “Detrimentalist”
Scott Walker “Drift”
Scott Walker “Tilt”
Why? “Alopecia” (We have plenty of these now!)

7″s:
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Bad Reaction “Plastic World”
Dear Landlord/Off with Their Heads
Down to Nothing/50 Lions
Four Letter Word/Off with Their Heads
Iron Boots “Demo 04”
Meltdown “No Tomorrow”
Mentally Challenged “Doctors”
No Justice “Still Fighting”
Satanic Threat “In To Hell”
Suspect Parts
Violent Minds

LPs & 12″s:
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Asesino “Tristo Satanica”
Astronauts “Competition Coupe”
Sam Cooke “Peace…”
Darkstar/Zomby “Memories”
Dawsano “Funk Train”
Deadbeat “Versionist Carmot”
Distance/Cyrus “Prayer”
Dubchild “Leathal Dubz V2”
Efterklang “Parades”
Extortion “Sick”
Fleet Foxes “Fleet Foxes (+Sun Giant EP)”
Hair Police “Empty Quarter”
Incredible Bongo Band “Apache”
Indian Jewelry “Fake and Cheap”
Ital Tek “Cyclical”
Joker/TRG “Snake Eater”
Khazad Doom “6 1/2”
Khazad Doom “Cherry Town”
Killing the Dream “Fractures”
King Khan and the Shrines “The Supreme Genius of…”
S. Knight “Born Invincible”
Kraftwerk “Telephone Call”
Jens Lekman “Oh You’re So Silent…”
Jens Lekman “Night Falls Over Kortedala”
Medeski, Martin & Wood “End of the World Party”
MRI “Take Kare Not Acid”
Offspring “Rise and Fall, Rage…”
Om “Live at Jerusalem”
Oxbow “Narcotic Story”
Paulson “All at Once”
Pressure/C.O.A. “Stalemate”
Rudimentary Peni “No More Pain”
Russian Circles “Enter”
Russian Circles “Station”
Sebastian “Smoking”
See You Next Tuesday “Para…”
Stooges “Gimme Some Skin”
Various Artists “Evangeline (Mary Anne Hobbes Presents)”
Various Artists “Eccentric Soul: Capsoul (2xLP)”
Various Artists “Love, Peace… Japanese”
Various Artists “Love, Peace… American”
Various Artists “Love, Peace… British”
Various Artists “200% Dynamite (Dancehall, Reggae…)”
Venetian Snares “Detrimentalist”
Venetian Snares “Miss Balaton”
Verse “Aggression”
Ricardo Villalobos “Vasco 1 (2×12″)”
Ween “Pure Guava (180 gram)”
Wooden Shjips “Vol. 1”
Yazoo “Reconnected”

DVDs:
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Curse of the Devil
Legend (Ultimate Edition)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Ravenous
Zoo

Magazine & Books:
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MaximumRock’n’Roll #302 July 2008
Joe Carducci “Rock and the Pop Narcotic” Book
Joe Carducci “Enter Naomi” Book

18th of June 2008 Update of New and Key Restocked Items

18th of June 2008 Update of New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s:
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Ellen Allien “Sool”
Baroness/Unpersons “A Grey Sigh In A Flower”
Bowerbirds “Hymns for…”
Broken Social Scene “You Forgot it in People”
Cannabis Corpse “Tube of the Resinated”
Coldplay “Viva La Vida”
Dam Funk “Burgundy City”
Dinosaur Jr. “Where You Been (180 gram)”
Dinosaur Jr. “Green Mind (180 gram)”
DJ D “Do or Die”
Dosh “Wolves and Wishes”
Roky Erickson “Halloween – Live…”
Fabulous Diamonds “Fabulous Diamonds”
Farah “Law of Life”
Flying Lotus “Los Angeles”
Fuck Buttons “Street Horrr…”
Gun Club “Fire of Love (180 gram)”
Iron and Wine “Creek Drank the Cradle”
Thurston Moore “Psychic Hearts”
Murder By Death “Who Will Survive & What (2×10″)”
NOFX “Maximum RockNRoll (colored)”
Nurse with Wound “Bacteria”
Odd Nosdam “Pretty Swell Explode”
Off with Their Heads “All Things Move Toward…”
Panda Bear “Person Pitch”
Rachel’s/Matmos “Full on Night”
T. Raumschmiere “E”
Retribution Gospel Choir “Retribution…”
Secondo “Kuwait”
Shape of Broad Minds w/ OPR8R
Silver Jews “Lookout Mount…”
Simian Mobile Disco “Sleep”
Smith n Hack “Tribute”
Smith n Hack “2 Pacemaker”
Sunset Rubdown “Random Spirit Lover”
Tickley Feather “Tickley Feather”
v/a “Ghana Soundz”
v/a “Wierd Compilation Vol. 2”
Vetiver “Thing of the Past”
War on Drugs “Wagonwheel”
Ween “Pure Guava (180 gram)”
Weezer “Weezer (Red Album)”
Witch “Witch”
Wolf Parade “At Mount Zoomer”

7″s/45s:
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Digital Leather “Closed My Eyes”
Sissy Spacek “Gore Jet”

CDs:
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Aidan Baker “Book of Nods”
Behead the Lamb “Messiahlation”
Briggs “Come All You Madmen”
British Sea Power “Do You Like Rock Music?”
British Sea Power “Decline of…”
Built to Spill “Ultimate Alternative Wavers”
Built to Spill “Perfect from Now On”
Butthole Surfers “PIOUHGD & Widowermaker”
Chaka Demus & Pliers “Ultimate Collection”
Crime in Stereo “Troubled Stateside”
Current 93 “Black Ships Heat the…”
Dissolve “Caveman of the Future”
DJ Scotch Egg “Drumized”
Endless Boogie “Focus Level”
Fight “Into the Pit (3xCD+DVD Deluxe Box Set)”
Flight of the Conchords “Flight of the Conchords”
Gogol Bordello “Super Taranta!”
Gogol Bordello “Gypsy Punks…”
Impossible Shapes “Impossible Shapes”
Jammer “Are You Dumb? vol.3”
Keiji/Tatsuya “Uhrfasudhasdd”
Means “To Keep Me from Sinking”
Mrs. Jynx “Standoffish Cat”
the Offspring “Rise and Fall, Rage…”
Opeth “Watershed (special 2xCD edition)”
Oppenheimer “Take the Whole Midrange…”
Pentemple “O))) Presents”
Phantom Orchard “Orra”
Reggie and the Full Effect “Last Stop: Carppy Town”
Shit and Shine “Kuss Mich, Meine Liebe”
Michael Showalter “Sandwiches & Cats”
Sixtoo “Duration (CD&DVD)”
A Storm of Light “And We Wept the Black…”
Tilly & the Wall “0”
Twine “Violets”
U.S. Christmas “Eat the Low Dogs”
v/a “You Don’t Know: Ninja Cuts”
v/a “Iraq: Choubi Choubi”
v/a “Minority North Vietnam”
v/a “Probidao CV: Gang Funk”
v/a “Bollywood Steel Guitar”
Verse “Aggression”
Luke Vibert “Lover’s Acid”
Vibert/Simmonds “Rodulate”
War on Drugs “Wagonwheel”
Why? “Elephant Eyelash”
Wooden Shjips “Vol. 1”
I. Xenakis “Kraanerg”

DVDs:
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H. Mayet: v/a: Musical Brotherhood
Marduk: Blood Puke Salvation
Teeth