: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: VA : Album.......: Saturday Night South African Disco Pop Hits 1981 : : Label.......: Cultures Of Soul Records .. .:.. . Genre.......: Disco : Catnr.......: COS 031 CD . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2021-03-06 Str.date....: 2021-01-15 Quality.....: 266kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://culturesofsoul.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Varikweru - Saturday Night Special 3:50 2. Margino - You and Me 3:26 3. Hot Soul Singers - Good Vibes 4:12 4. Brenda & the Big Dudes - No No Senor 6:22 5. Supa Frika - Let's Get On It 6:50 6. Brenda and the Big Dudes - Love Action 5:45 7. Black Five - Ea Kgiba Ngoale 4:22 8. Margino - Holiday 4:51 9. Soundburger - Ambiguously The Same 4:13 10. Supa Frika - Love Satisfaction 6:31 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 50:22 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 100.49______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: The 1980s were an epoch of upheaval and rapid change in South :, : Africa. The decade began with the countryÆs apartheid government : :' fighting to maintain its institutionalized racial segregation ': ,: in the face of global protests and demands for the release of :, : human rights activist Nelson Mandela, who had been jailed since : :' the early 1960s. By 1990, Mandela was free, and apartheid was ': ,: on the way to being dismantled. On the music front, things were :, : changing too; At the beginning of the decade, the main music : :' style of black South Africans was the jazzy indigenous jive of ': ,: mbaqanga, a provincial style that had held its place as the :, : sound of South Africa since Mandela was first imprisoned. By the : :' end of the decade, South African music stars were making ': ,: international waves with bubblegum, a flashy variety of :, : Afro-techno-pop. : :' ': ,: In SATURDAY NIGHT: SOUTH AFRICAN DISCO POP HITS, Cultures of :, : Soul explores this period of change, and the intermediary forms : :' that filled the gap between mbaqanga and bubblegum. The years ': ,: when South African musicians and producers wrestled with the :, : incursion of foreign disco and formulated their own style of : :' homegrown disco-pop. ': ,: :, : Starting from the early 80s, when bands like Varikweru, Black : :' Five and Soundburger essayed local attempts at boogie and ': ,: jazz-fusion, through experiments like the Madonna-cloned diva :, : Margino, who domesticized the burgeoning Italo-disco and NYC : :' electro sounds, up through the massive breakthrough of Brenda ': ,: and the Big Dudes, who arrived at the right mix between native :, : and international influences to point the way forward for South : :' African pop. ': ,: :, : The sound on these records is ostensibly familiar, drawing : :' heavily on models from the 1980s dance culture in Europe and ': ,: America, but if you listen closely enough you can hear the :, : distinct South African-ness of it allùfrom the deep, burbling : :' basslines, the brightly hypnotic melodies, and chant-like ': ,: lyricsùand with sounds as intoxicating as these, you will sure :, : want to listen closely. And often! : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 1 \/