7 Free MP3 Albums From South African Artists!
| As if there weren’t enough digital data out there (3.63 exabytes, some say, and as if the world wasn’t finally melting down, it seems that the new black is simply giving away your music. South African artists are climbing on board the free tune trend with a varied array of music for free download. So come on. Get with ‘glocalisation’ and download some South African music. |
Jackal & WolfExploding on to the local rock scene, this new power-trio features Charlie Murder on vox and guitar, with brothers Morgan and Redge O’Kennedy on drums and bass, are more intent on creating great tunes and playing them live than topping the charts, a refreshing change from the hit-obsessed mentality that pervades modern music.
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Jet BlackJet Black & The Multicolors is a band with 9 lives. Formed in London in early 2004 and originally a 9 piece funk band, Jet Black & The Multicolors rocked most London venues and received great reviews from record labels and promoters alike. Having recreated their sound almost from scratch, Jet Black is now an electronically-inspired live synthetic dance-rock act.
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Oceans & CitiesOceans & Cities is ‘J’, a mysterious electronic post-rock producer from the Western Cape. Blasting straight onto the scene with an instrumental electronic album for free download, J has already started turning heads by capturing the attention of South African post-rock poster-boys Kidofdoom.
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Tristan Waterkeyn“Hay Day” is the kind of CD I’d want to have accompany me on thousands of kilometres of sailing. It’s a “lie back in your hammock, look at the horizon and let the movement gently rock you” sort of album. It’s melodies spin themselves from lyrical yarn, the instrumentation’s brightly colourful and it’s all woven closely together by a silky smooth voice. Poetic, ambiguous words and jovial, sometimes theatrical play on instruments are an invitation to delve into layers of meaning. And it’s all taut, a nice taut mainsail to pull you along.
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Pravda23Pravda23 is the name of a viral meme that infects Cape Town composer John Bartmann, allowing him to create electronic music, art and live performance. Pravda23 performs live and aims at sit-down or background-listening crowd. Ambient house, trip-hop, chillout.
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Matthew GairMatthew Gair’s record And She Whispered I Told You So… is the closest approximation to that feeling you can get without actually being in a tiny club. It sounds so live that I found myself straining to hear the audience in the background. It’s as if you could reach out and touch the guy. It was only when, a few songs in, an echo effect is applied to a vocal line in Assisi , that I was convinced that I wasn’t just hearing a live recording.
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The PlasticsThe Plastics. Say, “thuh plas-tiks”. Collective jams, sleazy sweet mumbles. Put it in, turn it on, turn it up, turn it up, switch tracks. You like…you want more. Dance like you feel it. Stand back, look out. Look through the haze, crazy days keep it laid. Back track to how it all began,sing the songs they sang. You want it, you want it now, you want it. Keep an eye out to breathe the sonic boom that bleeds ut through the thumping beats. Falsetto sounds from Cape Town, listen close with your clothes off. And try not to touch yourself. Ease in the sleaze.
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Tristan Waterkeyn is amazing! Great list for sure