{"id":42497,"date":"2018-01-22T18:32:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T16:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/soundway-highlights-south-africas-80s-bubblegum-and-synth-boogie\/"},"modified":"2021-10-26T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:11:04","slug":"gumba-fire-compilation-soundway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/gumba-fire-compilation-soundway\/","title":{"rendered":"Soundway highlights South Africa’s 80s Bubblegum and Synth Boogie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the\u00a0Gumba Fire\u00a0<\/em>compilation, Soundway Records puts the light on the funky pop music scene of South Africa’s 1980s, widely known as bubblegum.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Picture:\u00a0Black Five\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Bubblegum music was born in 1980s black South Africa, from the ashes of disco. It was a \u201cusually stripped-down and lo-fi with a predominance of synths, keyboards and drum-machines and overlaid with the kind of deeply soulful trademark vocals and harmonies that South African music is famous for,\u201d shares Soundway.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth Boogie In 1980s South Africa<\/em>\u2018s highlight the country\u2019s musical movements between \u201cthe \u201970s where American-influenced jazz, funk and soul mixed with local Mbaqanga sounds, and the \u201990s when kwaito and house music ruled the dance floors of urban South Africa.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The name gumba fire means \u2018a hot party\u2019, and comes from the phrase \u2018gumba gumba\u2019, a term for the old spacegram radios that broadcast music into South Africa\u2019s townships and villages.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to first single\u00a0The Survivals’ \u2018My Brother\u2019 in our\u00a0Afro Groove Party! playlist on Spotify<\/a>\u00a0or below:<\/span><\/p>\n