Various – Pantsula! (The Rise Of Electronic Dance Music In South Africa, 1988-1990)
Label: Rush Hour – RHMC 003
Format: 2 x Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Compilation
Country: Netherlands
Released: Dec 2017
Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul
Style: Disco, Boogie, Bubblegum
TRACKS:
A1 The Equals – New Lover
A2 Jazino– Ushelakanjani
A3 Jivaro – What Next (Dub Mix)
B1 S.Y.B.– Jika Magogo
B2 Scotch Band– Watsotasama
B3 Kakappa– Sisonke
C1 Spirro– Ma Hero (Dub Mix)
C2 The Hard Workers– Ayoba-Yo
C3 Ayobayo Band– Sorry Bra
D1 Rush – Sobohla Manyosi
D2 Chaka – Via Tembisa
D3 La Viva– Go Siami
DESCRIPTION
Late 80s South African dance floor winners only! Selected by DJ Okapi and Antal, the compilation holds tracks by Jivaro, The Hard Workers, Ayobayo Band, S.Y.B. & many more. This is the sharp electronic music that fuelled the local Pantsula dances during the 80s and 90s . A must have for fans of Bubblegum and Kwaito music. TOP TIP!
The 12 tracks selected for Pantsula! come from a very unique, very different time and place. They represent the birth of electronic dance music in South Africa, through the songs of one particular independent label from the time: Music Team. The sound represents the culmination of the bubblegum era, when South Africa’s disco artists outgrew their American influences and forged an increasingly electronic and ‘local’ pop sound.
Evolving over time since long before the 80s, the distinctly South African subculture of Pantsula is more closely associated with an attitude, a style and a signature dance, rather than any specific sound. In the late 1980s and early 90s, Pantsula was also the name given to a new type of dance music taking over the streets of South Africa, influenced by earlier bubblegum and the rise of Shangaan Disco, but with a far broader appeal and a harder, purely electronic sound.