Shangaan Electro – the rapid-fire, deliciously synthetic South African dance style that rattles along at a delirious 180-odd bpm – is set to bring a roadshow of sorts to the UK this July via Qu ...

The 2010 FIFA World Cup has attracted nationalists the world over to Johannesburg, South Africa, for a month-long party, marked by the occasional soccer game and punctuated by everyone's favorite new ...

Nozinja is acting as a kind of ambassador for the Shangaan people. Seated at a small desk in a spacious room in Hoxton Hall, where a semi-circle of children and their parents have drawn around him, ...

I met Wills Glasspiegel over a game of pool at the Bohemian, Richmond’s grungy live music haven. I can’t even remember if we had been there to see a band or not. It was December of 2009 and that ...

Ten years ago in Limpopo, South Africa’s most northerly province, a brand new sound was born from ancient folk traditions. Shangaan electro combined rapid-fire marimba melodies popping off at nearly ...

‘We want to show fans how to dance to our music; the shaking of the waist, moving arms and legs in the right way. It’s truly an art form at its best and they need to share the feeling of doing it with ...

I first heard about Shangaan, the South African genre in which Nozinja is arguably the central creative figure, not long after I had discovered footwork via Massacooramaan’s blog. I was fast ...

Regional dance music the best dance music. New Orleans' bounce, Baltimore club, Argentinian cumbia villera, UK funky, Monterrey, Mexico's tribal guarachero and now, as Eddie Stats has so diligently ...

Shangaan Electro, based in Soweto, South Africa, play a superhuman steel-plated version of traditional Shangaan. Where once the music, which hails from rural Limpopo, was a mix of fluid guitar lines ...

An almost wholly unrooted and original dance music, this emerging South African sound marries hyper-quick, cheap electronics with soulful vocals. Save this story Save this story Speed in music can be ...