Spoek Mathambo announces first album in five years, shares new single "I Found U"
South African producer Spoek Mathambo has announce new record Mzansi Beat Code and shared the pulsing lead single "I Found U".
The 12-track collection follows 2012's Sub Pop LP Father Creeper (plus 2013 mixtape Escape From '85) and is described as a project that "explores and subverts modern African sonic landscapes."
Mzansi Beat Code is full of collaborations - Mathambo works with lots of names including Kajama, Loui Lvndn, Langa Mavuso, Damao, Jumping Back Slash, Ceci Bastida, and Pegasus Warning.
"The album interludes and skits play with ideas of media," says Mathambo of the samples on the album. "I record a lot of sounds with my dictaphone, steal clips from YouTube... everything clashes to express things that are so specific and local yet global... nostalgic yet right now, or at least yesterday."
Tracklist:
- Want Your Love (ft. Kajama, Fantasma)
- Black Rose (ft. Damao, Suga Flow, Tamar)
- Blast Fi Mi (ft. Loui Lvndn)
- Landed (ft. Loui Lvndn)
- The Mountain (ft. Pegasus Warning, DJ Mujava, DJ Spoko, Machepis)
- Volcan (ft. Ceci Bastida, Fantasma)
- Libalela (ft. Langa Mavuso)
- I Found U (ft. Kajama, Fantasma)
- Nothing’s Ever Perfect (ft. Loui Lvndn)
- Sifin’imali Yethu (ft. Jumping Back Slash)
- No Congo No Cellphone
- Spoek Mathambo International Airport (Border Patrol Dub)
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