shangaan

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Featuring three sisters and two friends, they were Dog's first hit-makers and among the first women to be at the forefront of any shangaan group.

Scene and heard: Shangaan electro 2010
Dog says the story of shangaan electro started in 2005.

Scene and heard: Shangaan electro 2010
Glasspiegel aims to bring the acts on the shangaan compilation to the US to perform live.

Scene and heard: Shangaan electro 2010
His aim was to get to the source of shangaan electro, and then see if he could distribute the music in the US.

Scene and heard: Shangaan electro 2010
The best shangaan artists, by Wills GlasspiegelTshe Tsha Boys are named after the "tshetsha" dance that originates in the village of Ka-Mukomi in the northern province of Malamulele.

Scene and heard: Shangaan electro 2010
At 180 bpm, shangaan combines MIDI keyboards with marimba beats, distorted vocal samples and lyrics that Honest Jon's, the record label which is putting out a compilation, described as "African soap operas, tied up with domestic matters and a yearning for the slower life".

Scene and heard: Shangaan electro 2010
Dog runs his empire from a home studio in Soweto, where he edits a slightly surreal stream of music videos, most of which are filmed in front of a green screen and interspliced with clips from shangaan township dances and, occasionally, stock footage of joggers, lakes and western business centres.

Scene and heard: Shangaan electro 2010