{"product_id":"various-shangaan-shake","title":"Various - Shangaan Shake","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 2010, just before the World Cup, \u003cstrong\u003eHonest Jon's\u003c\/strong\u003e unleashed a bolt from the blue: \u003cem\u003eShangaan Electro\u003c\/em\u003e, a startling compilation of jacking dance music from the South African countryside. Heartfelt family and spiritual matters set at a breakneck 180 bpm to cheap samplers by local producer Nozinja, aka Dog. In-your-face, candid, and berserk - with sweet vocals riding bareback the processed progeny of marimba, drums, guitar - fluorescent orange wigs, nutty dancing and no bass at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA slap in the face and a jab in the bum of solemn, trend-driven dance music, \u003cem\u003eShangaan Electro\u003c\/em\u003e is resplendently vivid and full-colour, shot through with lightning-fast multi-rhythms, and dementedly, dazzlingly animated. A few years ago, \u003cstrong\u003eHonest Jon's\u003c\/strong\u003e offered up a set of homages - entitled \u003cem\u003eLagos Shake\u003c\/em\u003e - to the great Afrobeat architect Tony Allen, using his own recordings and compositions as its starting point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow, in a captivating series of twelves running throughout last year and into 2012, the \u003cem\u003eShangaan Electro\u003c\/em\u003e tracks have been similarly fantasized - rather than just flatly remixed - by some of the contemporary scene's most inspired artists and producers, from Detroit to London, Berlin to Bristol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKicking off a prodigiously active year for the \u003cstrong\u003eHonest Jon's\u003c\/strong\u003e label, the double-CD \u003cem\u003eShangaan Shake\u003c\/em\u003e collects these new versions, presenting a cross-section of the most vital moods and grooves currently at large in underground dance music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFresh from the label's recent chop up live revue, Detroit techno alchemist Theo Parrish throws in a hypnotic, thirteen-minute, carnivalesque head scrambler, multi-layered with synths, galloping drums, and clattering percussion. Trailering his brand new album for HJ this spring, the inimitable Actress ramps proceedings as up-and-out as can be without jettisoning the dancefloor completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eElsewhere, Anthony Shake Shakir's motor city stomper - a favorite with Gilles Peterson on his BBC Radio 1 show - is this pioneer's most impactful work of late, hard-hitting and reckless in all the right places; characteristically, Mark Ernestus from Rhythm \u0026amp; Sound is swingeingly original and tersely dubwise; and amongst the set's wildcards, the futuristic pop duo Hype Williams turns out a mesmerizing tribute, lagging somewhere ages behind the party people, achingly soulful and lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNothing in modern dance seems more attuned to Shangaan musical sensibility than Chicago Juke and Footwork - and celebrated originators Rashad, Spinn, and Boo lock into its madness with a lethal, frantic pair of reworks, true to the hyper-energy and raw, unhinged power of the source material. From the coiled forensics of Peverelist, though, via the deep, minimal funk of Villalobos and Loderbauer, to the carefree drive of Oni Ayhun - each and every one of these \u003cem\u003eShangaan Shake\u003c\/em\u003e re-imaginings sparks from genuine, far-fetched inspiration into wildly diverse and brilliant new trajectories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD | x2","offer_id":50440636629323,"sku":"348021","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d571f90c-db90-46ad-ad95-f4f79b563079_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726964247","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/various-shangaan-shake","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}