Kwaito Mix on Vinyl

Manage to stumble across some 90s Kwaito vinyl records from an ex-DJ. They have seen better days but Kwaito or Digong or Gong is really hard to find and hence I will forever treasure them and hope I will find better copies. Kwaito is a music genre that emerged in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, during the 1990s. It is a variant of house music that features the use of African sounds and samples. Kwaito songs occur at a slower tempo range than other styles of house music and Kwaito often contains catchy melodic and percussive loop samples, deep bass lines, and vocals. Despite its similarities to hip hop music, Kwaito has a distinctive manner in which the lyrics are sung, rapped and shouted The word kwaito is an Isicamtho term from the Gauteng townships and encompasses styles that range from guz, d'gong, and isgubhu to swaito.The word originates from the Afrikaans kwaai, which when used as a slang term is the equivalent of the English term hot. Kwaito led a post-Apartheid township subculture into the mainstream. Some of these tracks remind me of my later high school years. Hope you enjoy this Old School mixtape the same way I loved making it. Azishe. Sgubhu.