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 ...

For Wills Glasspiegel, the discovery of Shangaan electro came after an evening of random YouTubing in his Brooklyn apartment. His sofa was then acting as a bed for Tshepang Ramoba, drummer with South ...

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 ...

"You are not going to believe your eyes," assures Richard "Nozinja" Mthetwa, as we drive up to the car park of a food market behind a police station on the outskirts of Soweto. "The way they dance and ...

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, ...

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 ...

In 2010, UK label Honest Jon's released a little compilation of Shangaan Electro sounds from South Africa. The music was wild, with high-speed beats that landed with razor-sharp precision and wriggly ...

Honest Jon’s have taken an interesting trajectory over the last couple of years. Since 2010 they’ve become synonymous with a certain sort of uncategorisable electronic music, many of the the modern ...

‘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 ...

Shangaan Electro is the high-speed dance phenomenon from South Africa that is rising from streets into clubs, homes and venues all around the globe. The creation of charismatic producer, record label ...