20 years into it’s democracy, Future Sounds of Mzansi, is a
documentary which aims to explore, express, and interrogating South
Africa’s cultural landscape. A chief vehicle of this exploration is
electronic music, a staple of South African popular culture.
It features an exciting range of emerging electronic music
artists from various SA cities including Aero Manyelo; Black Coffee;
Christian Tiger School; Felix Laband; John Wizards; Krushed &
Sorted; Machepies; Markus Wormstorm; Mix & Blend; DJ Mujava; Naked
Boys; Nozinja; Okmalumkoolkat; Panyaza; Rude Boys; Sibot; Spoek
Mathambo; DJ Spoko; Zaki Ibrahim and many more.
We traveled around South Africa to explore our rich
electronic music scene. For years there’s been a strong movement of
producers, instrumentalists, vocalists and most importantly, party
goers, giving themselves to new ideas of African electronic music.
We have seen a couple of generations unafraid to be proudly
South African,proudly party rocking, proudly futuristic, international
stake raisers, and hell raisers. The future looks awesome, blindingly
beautiful and bursting at the seams with youth energy and talent.
Still a country steeped in poverty, crime, and injustice, we
party like our lives depend on it. From the sounds of deep house to
glitch hop, kwaito-house, township tech, sghubu sapitori; durban qhum,
daintly melodic electronica to dubstep; super fast khawuleza and
shangaan electro. The groove is thick and infectious. And we give
ourselves to it.
Our mission was simple, to meet up with some of our heroes,
colleagues, competition, and co-conspirators…an ever potent gang of
electronic music pioneers sculpting The Future Sound of Mzansi.
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