Vuvuzela House + 70s Rare Groove

The Vuvuzela; an ingenius present from the good people of South Africa who are trying their best to drown out the ignorant comments from your average football commentator.

Now not only can we hear it whilst we watch England fail miserably in the World Cup we can be treated to its joys whilst listening to South African House too

Going back 40 years, the always diligent scholars at Strut are releasing the second volume of their insightful Soweto Township Sounds series with the third to come in early August.

Cop a free download of Mahotella Queens’ Nkuli’s Shuffle below. A must for fans of Afro Jazz and Rare Groove

Mahotela Queens – Nkuli’s Shuffle

Buy volume two here and here.

2 Comments


  1. Ben
    Jun 15, 2010

    Hell yeah! I just ran accross the Vuvusela jam independantly of the mighty GhettoBassquake… Planning on dropping it into my SA Set on my radio show this week.

  2. [...] while the streets went club; the World Cup pit the saccharine (wakawaka) against the strident (vuvuzela). Remix reached its house-y zenith — transforming Gyptian’s “Hold You” from [...]

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