New WARP Signing: Nozinja (Shangaan Electro)

Notice I posted this here without injecting my personal opinions on this - I wanted to spur honest discussion about this signing and music.

That being said, while I am not into this style of music and frankly wonder who at WARP would feel this fits their roster (probably the same person who signed !!!), I can't fault them for being diverse in their musical footprint.

Okay, so while there's thousands of other electronic artists that I'd no doubt rather see signed to Warp, I can at least sort of understand the appeal of this (world music rave fusion, okay whatever, fine). But those awkwardly placed cymbal hits crack me up.

  On 4/2/2014 at 7:27 PM, Joyrex said:

Notice I posted this here without injecting my personal opinions on this - I wanted to spur honest discussion about this signing and music.

 

That being said, while I am not into this style of music and frankly wonder who at WARP would feel this fits their roster (probably the same person who signed !!!), I can't fault them for being diverse in their musical footprint.

Yeah yeah whatever. Just tell us when this guy's getting a subforum.

GJ warp, major points for this

This reminds me of the first time I heard DJ Nate and it left me scratching my head a bit. I think I will love this soon.

I loved the Shangaan Shake album. These remixes were great. not sure how much of the originals i can take. so we'll see.

Joyrex bashing !!! is insane to me.

Warp should have signed Beatwife.

Warp should release more Vincent Gallo.

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  On 4/2/2014 at 8:51 PM, paranerd said:

Warp should release more Vincent Gallo.

 

 

 

 

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Warp should sign a potential new undiscovered Sunn O))) or Wolves in the Throne Room

https://soundcloud.com/fluorescentgrey/shangaank

  On 4/2/2014 at 5:57 PM, Friendly Foil said:

Sounds a bit like Marimba Warrior.

beat me to the punch

  On 4/2/2014 at 4:55 PM, mcbpete said:

Ooooh not for me thanks -

 

 

Sounds like a midi file you'd get on Klik n Play

it's pretty fun sounding i don't hate it but this track is waay to long and repetitive

i'm afraid i can't handle a whole album like that, we'll see

  On 4/2/2014 at 5:31 PM, DorkingtonPugsly said:

This is who aphex should've collaborated with, not those poser south africans. This guy's the real deal. Rdj fucks up once again.

ahahahahahahahaha kut

awesome dancing

  On 4/2/2014 at 5:28 PM, Amen Lare said:

That said, i enjoy this style for a change. Should be noted that one of the ethnographic pioneers of this stuff was Mark Ernestus from Basic Channel, he seriously believed it had the missing energy of early techno.

Germans, the true ethnic music pioneers...lol. (I kid)

Actually that's a good point, there's been quite a track record of German electronic musicians exploring non-Western music to push the genres forward: Popol Vuh's use of non-European music styles, Alec Empire re-asserting breakbeats into hardcore techno, Rhythm & Sound's incorporation of dub into minimal and dub techno.

William Bennett's Cut Hands project comes to mind too:

This signing is good news to me, although I too wonder what exactly WARP's decision-making process has been, they do seem a bit behind say, Hyperdub or Planet Mu, not to mention a plethora of other niche artsy or experimental labels (or even a dance label like Night Slugs for that matter).

I bet the meeting went like this:

Steve Beckett: "Are you sure only Plaid is committed for a 2014 release?"

Intern: "Yes. RDJ won't return your emails and Flying Lotus is set with GTA royalties."

Steve Beckett: "Any more footwork artists?"

Intern: "All the good ones are signed."

Steve Beckett: "Damn. What about this 'vaporwave' thing?"

Intern: "Yeah...we would have to create an anonymous bandcamp account...that puts out cassettes."

Steve Beckett: "Oh geez. What about grime?"

Intern: "err...what about it? It's 2014."

Steve Beckett: "Well shit, I dunno, find something that reminds me of 'Bucephalus Bouncing Ball' but ethnic or foreign or or amateur or something"

3 days later

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We're pleased to announce that Nozinja, mastermind of 'Shangaan Electro', has signed with Warp Records, along with details of upcoming live shows.

flol ^

I'm eager for the day they release some messed up, leftfield underground Bhangra. That already sounds awesome in theory alone.

  On 4/2/2014 at 10:12 PM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 4/2/2014 at 5:28 PM, Amen Lare said:

That said, i enjoy this style for a change. Should be noted that one of the ethnographic pioneers of this stuff was Mark Ernestus from Basic Channel, he seriously believed it had the missing energy of early techno.

 

Germans, the true ethnic music pioneers...lol. (I kid)

 

Actually that's a good point, there's been quite a track record of German electronic musicians exploring non-Western music to push the genres forward: Popol Vuh's use of non-European music styles, Alec Empire re-asserting breakbeats into hardcore techno, Rhythm & Sound's incorporation of dub into minimal and dub techno.

Not ethnic music, ethnographic pioneer - he discovered this producer as i know and pushed those Shangaan releases on Honest Jon's. Typically it's french people, or indeed brits and germans who goes on anthopologic quests like this. So it's not about incorporating into his own music. Now he's concentrated on some Malian dance music (not electronic)

http://hardwax.com/68290/mark-ernestus-presents-jeri-jeri/800-ndagga/

[youtubehd]FTQbiNvZqaY[/youtubehd]

Getting easier to get signed now eh?

I guess this music just isn't for me, but man, it's weird to see what major labels sign nowadays.

Come on Warp, you're better than this.

(Oh shit, maybe they're not)

*gets depressed about WARP*

  On 4/2/2014 at 9:35 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

 

 

These trax are actually good.

What warp has signed here is shit. I'm incredibly disappointed.

  On 4/3/2014 at 3:31 AM, StephenG said:

 

  On 4/2/2014 at 9:35 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

 

 

 

These trax are actually good.

 

What warp has signed here is shit. I'm incredibly disappointed.

 

I'm going to look like a huge tool if wrong, but isn't that Reid?