{"product_id":"dj-black-low-uwami-lp","title":"DJ Black Low Uwami [LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: ATFA042LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 0843563135433\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 7th May 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: International\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark, searching amapiano electronic music from a new producer.\u003cbr\u003e Relatively new style of music for listeners outside South Africa.\u003cbr\u003e Reflects the feeling of 2020: stark, disruptive, scary.\u003cbr\u003e Part of a wave of young producers making vital new music in SA.\u003cbr\u003e Sounds like nothing else right now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn many ways, DJ Black Low’s debut album, Uwami, shows the signs of an artist’s first offering in any musical genre. Showcasing fluency in a broad range of styles and stuffing a number of ideas to the record’s brim is the 20 year-old producer’s attempt to both introduce himself to a wide listenership and stamp a recognizable sound in their minds. In other ways, somewhat out of the young South African producer’s control, Uwami goes against the grain. The album comes at a time when South African electronic music is being fundamentally disrupted. Amapiano, the electronic music movement which first gained popularity with a small, core group of followers, now dominates the mainstream. Well-known and pervasive, amapiano borrows from a diverse palette of musical styles which are popular in South Africa’s largely Black townshipsjazz, kwaito, dibacardi, deep and afro house among them.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Instead of pandering to the seemingly insatiable local appetite and growing global penchant for amapiano though, on Uwami DJ Black Low seeks out the limits of the sound du jour and tries to stretch them. On his solo productions, he uses the samples and compositional norms that make amapiano hits the bedrock on which to experiment and improvise. With collaborators, DJ Black Low improvises within the boundaries of listener-friendly grooves. The sound he creates has foundations of what could easily have progressed into captivating amapiano songs on their own. But he uses improvised but structured electronic percussion and distortion sounds to drive the tracks in a particular direction. What remains is something like a deconstructed amapiano.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For a young producer living in the townships of the greater Pitori area of South Africa’s Gauteng province, there were few avenues available for Radebe to pursue a career in music. His trajectory shows the vulnerability of this pursuit. “I had started producing in 2013 and it so happened that I lost my equipment in 2014. I couldn’t afford to buy equipment. In 2017, a friend of mine who had been making music found a job and decided to quit music. He gave me his equipment and I was able to start producing again. That’s when I started getting back to it. I tried to pick up where I had left off, with hip hop and commercial house but I found that amapiano was the popular music. I liked it, so I started producing it.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Tracklisting:\u003cbr\u003e 01. DJ Black Low \u0026amp; Hapas Music feat. DJ KS \u0026amp; Patna “Jaiva Low”\u003cbr\u003e 02. DJ Black Low \u0026amp; Tap Soul feat. Licy Jay \u0026amp; Eto “Emcimbinii”\u003cbr\u003e 03. DJ Black Low feat. DJ Saxo Boy “9 Days”\u003cbr\u003e 04. DJ Black Low \u0026amp; Kapzela feat. Licy Jay \u0026amp; MLG “Emonate Oe Bethela D Vosho”\u003cbr\u003e 05. DJ Black Low “Downfall Revisit”\u003cbr\u003e 06. DJ Black Low “Stiwawa Quitter”\u003cbr\u003e CD version also includes:\u003cbr\u003e 07. DJ Black Low \u0026amp; Mr Perfect feat. DJ Labengwa “Alone in a Dark”\u003cbr\u003e 08. DJ Black Low feat. DJ Labengwa Licy Jay \u0026amp; Menate Entertainment “Sbone (Vocal mix)”\u003cbr\u003e 09. DJ Black Low feat. DJ Labengwa “Down the Road (Original Mix)”\u003cbr\u003e 10. DJ Black Low “Vula Vala”\u003cbr\u003e 11. DJ Black Low “60 Days No Sleep”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Awesome Tapes From Africa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37830644793500,"sku":"ATFA042LP","price":21.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/unnamed_85d0e88b-fa5a-4ca8-a166-2ee1b6338d78.jpg?v=1613755016","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/dj-black-low-uwami-lp","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}