Music: DJ Maphorisa & DJ Buckz ft Sjava & TDK Macassette - Goosheshe
Music: DJ Maphorisa & DJ Buckz ft Sjava & TDK Macassette – Goosheshe
DJ Maphorisa & DJ Buckz ft Sjava & TDK Macassette – Goosheshe
Hitmakers, DJ Maphorisa and DJ Buckz join forces together to produce a smash Gqom hit Goosheshe alongside Ambitiouz artiste Sjava and TDK Macassette, yet another song titled after the famed car.
Listen and download the very club friendly record below: –
OKMALUMKOOLKAT: 100K MACASSETTE-CARVELAS, GOLDTEETH AND THE QUINTESSENTIAL SOUTH AFRICAN URBAN A piece by Sammy Bronze
A year ago OKMalumKoolKat dropped his classic mixtape “100K Macassette.” Since then his career has been rocky, to say the least. I won’t get into that but ahead of his new collab with K.O, “Don Dada” dropping this Friday, 12 October 2016 Let’s revisit and unpack the impact of 100K.
If one knew nothing more about OkMalumkoolkat's embodiment in music, his latest mixtape 100k Macassette, that he released last year, would undoubtedly be enough. it is layered with thick thatch, in a thatch mansion, un-inched by its stature and ready to burn an aesthetic that you will not find anywhere else but in South Africa! This mixtape can easily be used in a dissertation or at least a thesis on the parallels of South African urban music to 100k Macassette and the fluidity between the retrospective 80s pop culture in radio and music and how it permeates to film culture, in SOUTH AFRICA!
The fact of the matter is that trying to have a chronological understanding of such work from Koolkat may leave you somewhat boggled, as there is angst in the styles or sub-genres that he partakes in, that may leave you opinionated for days about what he is doing musically, but will not leave you resolute in your stance.
One may ponder if from the first time they saw him from Dirty Paraffin up until now, he knew the musical direction he was taking or simply went along with a mantra as cavalier as Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean, even Jack himself left a rather mystic appearance regarding his persona and agenda, come to think of it, so does OKMalumkoolkat. The psychedelic sounds of 'Ijusi' as well as the visuals leaves one with one big WTF! Abstract executions, especially on a mainstream level 'ayispani' particularly in SOUTH AFRICA. He should not be winning, but he is. watching him perform and listening to his songs is as unsettling and funny as watching Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' an absurdist play where two men are conversing about everything and nothing, whilst waiting for a man (Godot) who never comes. Well perhaps Godot did arrive, in SOUTH AFRICA!
Back to the music. With content such as 'Round house kick' (the groundworks for 'igqom' sound) 'Gold Teeth and Carvelas' 'Kim Mapakisha' and '100k Macassette' to set the tone to what easily could have become an album. He is part of a squad called Boyz n Bucks comprised of the likes of Riky Rick, uSanele, Stilo Magolide, Mashayabuqe and Scoop Makhathini. These fine gentlemen of RACHET Braamfontein (the headquarters it would seem) basically hold shit down in that area. Their energy, music, style, fashion and moreover, the culture, exudes throughout the metropolis, right down to the true grit of the Johannesburg CBD and townships all over the country. It is with no surprise that OkMalumkoolkat would recite lyrics such as 'Driving down Eloff, we need more liqour' or 'Siyagunda is'buko asikho' because that’s exactly where the heart of the lyricism is, the everyday people! Everyday people in SOUTH AFRICA! The taxi drivers, the barbers, the commuters, the party animals, the fashionistas, the pretty boys, the fly girls, the 'majaivane' and the 'Kim Mapakishas' of this world. All of them inculcate the South African urban.
While it may seem that the article is blatantly oblivious to OkMalumKoolkat's current situation of life after a case of ' sexual assault, it is not. That dark cloud hanging over him is observed, and winning over the hearts of the fans will not be a breeze. However this is a zooming in of the rhetoric of his music.
100Kmacassette shows us how radio and its apparatus, which is the tape or the cassette have had an influence on him. His very name is a derivative of a radio personality, the remnants of 'eZase Nanda' or 'DJ Gatsheni unumber one' leave traces of influence throughout the mixtape. But furthermore, which is perhaps more poignant are the interludes taken from a classic South African film called 'Ikati Elimnyama' a movie that was banned for the longest time in South Africa, along with other flicks such as 'Amapantsula' and 'Joe Bullet' starring the celebrated late Ken Gampu. Ikati Elimnyama gave way to a beloved gangster who turns rogue on his associates and plays a vigilante of the retro 1980s.
Regardless of how you feel about him, this mixtape alone belongs in a library and lecture rooms where South Africans and any other individual trying to tap into the urban culture can just pop in this work of art and learn what South Africa is about at a highspeed pace! what is next for 'Future mfana' only time will tell. South Africa is tricky, we can forgive easily, or hold a grudge forever, but 100kmacassette will forever remain resolute.
