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General Discussion / yo SONG of the DAY 2010...........................!
« on: January 08, 2010, 09:03:12 AM »
Homecut ft Corinne Bailey Rae & Soweto Kinch -I Don't Even Know (No Freedom Without Sacrifice)
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The Cypher: one can hardly hear the beat, was that intentional...?
The Cypher Old School Remix: dope remix...solid stuff....
Thanks for the feedback...with The Cypher I reckon there is need to balance it again! I can hear that... The remix is dope!!!thinking of shooting a mini video for that...
LOL, dont JINX yourself... she also released SQUARE, i wonder if your not refering to that
i have it as well and will see if i cant upload that too for youl TONIGHT!
i will share this in the UGHH 09 thread by tonight if no one beats me to it
According to one of Braintrain's facebook status Tumi has got one hell of a controvercial bonus track on the album where he name drop a few SA cats including Flabba, JR, Da LES et al and goes on to blame them for the weak level of standard of SA Hiphop. Not sure if he's referin to their lyrical content, styles or whatever, so any one who got the album please up the joint (not the entire album but just that bonus track) coz we wana knooooooow!
is it available in musica stores?
“Tumi without the Volume is like Miles Davis without Bill Evans, Bob Marley without the wailers – still a powerful, relevant voice.” So he says. And so it appears in light of Whole Worlds, Boitumelo ‘Tumi’ Molekane’s second album sans the Volume, the live band with whom he has familiarized audiences in Scandinavia, North America, France, Germany, the UK…very nearly the whole world.
It is as part of this outfit that Tumi has groomed his repertoire to exceed the singular dimension of supreme MC status. Years spent articulating the South African experience for foreign enquiring minds in a live band context have not only perfected the fluidity of his lyricism but also earned him peers on the international music scene. Cutting edge producers from no less than four continents feature on Whole Worlds. Namely, Rene ’Snaz’ Hill from Canada, Robin Hannibal Braun from Denmark, Kabir 'Kwality' Ahluwalia from India, Mason Black and Thabang ’PapercuTT’ Moloto from South Africa. The vocal guest spots too are suitably diverse and include Zaki Ibrahim (Canada/South Africa), Tairo (France), Mxo and RJ Benjamin.
Where the average rapper would struggle to ama** such a cutting edge lineup, Molekane’s all-round artistry affords him equal standing with such musical giants as jazz virtuoso Sibongile Khumalo (featured on this album on Stage Lights). By the same token, it imparts on him the fortitude to showcase music scene newbies like dance actress and singer Tracey Lee, as well as Qagamba Makula, a poet with whom he has a**ociated since he fronted the poetry collective PERM in the late 90s.
It also generates the influence by which he is able to acquire the contribution of more familiar names from other circles of South African commercial music. Fortunate especially for the ma**es of fans of, for instance Bricks, who quite likely are only accustomed to the kwaito hot boy sticking to one script. Leading a new school of thought Tumi jettisons the dated rule books to represent a now generation of musicians and listeners. Their tastes are more this and that than either/or. They’re the ones for whom the two stalwarts’ collaborative message of hope will resonate the strongest on Bambezela – the album’s flagship single, and arguably Tumi’s most accessible endeavour yet.
Current and universal topics such as insurgency, celebrity, love and monogamy, theme this semi-conceptual album, a collection of narratives from the points of view of several South Africans, expertly put together with cla**ic Hip-hop as the conduit, optimism as the overall sentiment, and with the whole world in mind.