Afro Melt Volumes (The Talented Ones) - Busi Mhlongo #afrohouse #housemusic #djmix #busimhlongo

Afro Melt Volumes (The Talented Ones) - Busi Mhlongo 00:00 Intro 00:38 Khuzani (Mr Funk Kade Sas'bona Remix) 07:01 Yapheli'mali Yami (Halo & Lars Behrenroth Remix) 15:00 Ukuthula (Mr Funk Weh Bantu Bakithi Remix) 20:54 Ukuthula (Sculptured Remix) 27:09 Zithin'isizwe (Essential-i Afro Remix) 34:23 Oxamu (ZuluMafia Remix) 40:04 Ngadlalwa Yindoda (Soldiers Of House AB Dub Mix) 45:23 Oxamu (Soultonic Ancestral Soul Mix) 52:35 Ngeku Wathola Mandlami (Blaq Soul's Ritual Mix) 58:46 Yapheli'mali Yami (Soldiers of House Dub) 01:03:24 Bhoyi (Nkokhi's Kanun Remix) 01:09:51 Bokwanyana (SoulJunky Remix) 01:15:48 Outro AfrodesiaMP3 & Electric Melt join forces to bring you a series that will leave you astounded at the musical talent Africa possesses. Afro Melt Volumes combines the most prolific artist from the Melt catalogue with established and up and coming producers from the AfrodesiaMP3 website to breath new live into these classic material, remixing them into the various dance genres that are braking the barriers in the world today. Abanqono Musical creativity, like rust and money, never sleeps.We live in re-mixed multiverse of genres, styles and innovations that require constant exposure, analysis and concentration to fully appreciate. Yet some music still audibly has roots that run deeper than others: Music that has been re-invented while keeping its forerunners, practitioners and ancestors, top-of-mind. Such a project is Abanqono – The Talented Ones Music of course is invisible to the naked eye. Likewise the ether, radio and microwave signals through which sms’s, hypertexts and code travels in the 21st century. How appropriate then, that the musical re-interpretations of such artists as Busi Mhlongo, Moses Taiwa Molelekwa, Madala Kunene, Mabi Thobejane, Sipho Gumede, Amampondo and the Xhosa Queens Lungiswa, Madosini and Mantombi – the Abanqono are now journeying largely via the same medium. Post-Modern in essence, most forms of re-mixing retain memorable melodic hooks, recognizable instrumental flourishes, but more often abandon both tempo and the essential spirit of the original work. In this way, we pay respect to the original artists, but ensure that their work lives on in new forms for this present generation and those to come. The first in the series features the works of the much respected Busi Mhlongo and in this collection you will find remixes from the likes of Essential-I, Mindlos, Soldiers Of House, Halo and Lars Behrenroth, SoulJunky, Mr. Funk Daddy, Sculptured, nkokhi, Soultonic, Zulu Mafia and Blaq Soul. Coordinated, Compiled, Mastered & Mixed Back 2 Back By Static Plastic Executive Producer Robert Trunz C & P 2011 MELT MUSIC PHASE Two cc Loudspeakers Giya G1 courtesy of VIVID AUDIO www.vividaudio.com Photography by Peter Wiliams Design and imaging by www.jonkempdesign.co.uk Yet Busi Mhlongo’s shows conveyed the message with hard-hitting beauty: blessed are the jaded, for they, too – ‘pon experiencing a musical baptism of this nature – shall inherit the earth, or the grooves, or both. The band was on a deep funk, and gospel-meets-lounge music element. Syrupy bass, sparse, spaced out keyboards that out bass’ed the bass, and the guitars wailing in tandem with the drummer, who seemed to be keeping the center holding, but was not in fact. Though the intent was noble, there was something annoying about the sound. People didn’t seem to notice though, or care. Ever alert, Mhlongo’s body language conveyed a bit of displeasure but the problem persisted, at which point something other than her mere self, took over as the band settled onto the third track. She took control. Her usually shriek-ful vocals blended, and then rose a whisper above the guitars. She stood there, dead still, heat, make-up, sweat and the reddishlighting giving her a face a bloodied Aztec or West African mask resemblance, and with all the power she could summon from her belly, and every pore in her body the artist let rip into “uMethisi”, from her debut album Bhabemu, in the most beautiful voice I have ever heard sung live. Her repertoire and choreography, halted only with occasional, teary announcements – “I love you, let’s appreciate love, what God gave us” – was of an initiate performing an abangoma ritual, a passage into the world of healers and marabouts. The audience was there but not aware of her: she belonged to some other time. Busi Mhlongo the wailer gave way to the balladeer, the artist gave way to the healer, the healer beckoned the priest, who led us to a brothel, where body and soul merges, even if it’s for a five-minute duration of the rhythmic snake dance, back to the stage where the tame Zulu woman about to celebrate her 60th birthday, gave way to a rock-star chic, an Afro alien-Funk Goddess on a futuristic mission to convert the non-believers. #afrodesiamp3 #busimhlongo #afrohouse #deephouse #soulfulhouse #djmix #dj #africanmusic #compilation #mastering #finalmix #musicdistribution #staticplastic