{"id":42753,"date":"2017-04-14T17:19:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T16:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/south-africans-global-dance-music-master-is-back-with-mzansi-beat-code-on-his-own-imprimt-teka-records\/"},"modified":"2021-10-01T18:18:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T16:18:24","slug":"south-africans-global-dance-music-master-is-back-with-mzansi-beat-code-on-his-own-imprimt-teka-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/south-africans-global-dance-music-master-is-back-with-mzansi-beat-code-on-his-own-imprimt-teka-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoek Mathambo&#8217;s fifth solo album is finally here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">South African&#8217;s global dance-music master is back with&nbsp;<em>Mzansi Beat Code&nbsp;<\/em>on his own imprimt Teka Records.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The 34-year-old producer&nbsp;takes you by the hand to guide you through the South Africa of today. <em>Mzansi Beat Code<\/em> is a trip into&nbsp;the wide range of style originally from South Africa, from township to township&nbsp;and city to city. Spoek Mathambo pays tribute to the house music that came into the country from Chicago in the late &#8217;80 and spread all over the warehouse parties before mutating under the effect of idiomatic rhythm cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/309138976&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>The concept of the album is to  celebrate South African musical innovations and expand on them, so I  obviously had to get a gang of South Africans to make that authentic<\/em>,\u201d  Spoek&nbsp;to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/uproxx.com\/music\/spoek-mathambo-mzansi-beat-code-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uproxx<\/a> about the new album. \u201c<em>South Africa has a really wicked concept of  rhythm, melody, harmony, tone and intensity. I reveled in exploring and  expanding on that\u2026but the album has an international flavor from people  like Ceci is from Mexico, Pegasus Warning is from NYC, Imposture is from France<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is thus entirely logical that Spoek reunites his friends and collaborators at his house to unify all this  different styles, from SA and from the world,&nbsp;in one global vibe. On the album, we can hear the personal touch of South Africa artists such as  Kajama, Loui Lvndn, Langa Mavuso, Damao and Jumping Back Slash, as well  as Mexican vocalist Ceci Bastida and US singer Pegasus Warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spoek Mathambo, <em>Mzansi Beat Code<\/em>, available the 14 april via&nbsp;Teka Records<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1010\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Spoek-Mathambo-Mzansi-beat-code-1010x1010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Spoek-Mathambo-Mzansi-beat-code-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Spoek-Mathambo-Mzansi-beat-code-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Spoek-Mathambo-Mzansi-beat-code-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Spoek-Mathambo-Mzansi-beat-code-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Spoek-Mathambo-Mzansi-beat-code-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Spoek-Mathambo-Mzansi-beat-code-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Spoek-Mathambo-Mzansi-beat-code-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Spoek-Mathambo-Mzansi-beat-code-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Spoek-Mathambo-Mzansi-beat-code-73x73.jpg 73w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Spoek-Mathambo-Mzansi-beat-code.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African&#8217;s global dance-music master is back with Mzansi Beat Code on his own imprimt Teka Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[10402,40852],"location":[7844],"yst_prominent_words":[9752,8576,10371,10362,10366,9415,8933,10363,10370,10361,10359,8402,10367,10368,9819,10360,10369,10365,10364,8508],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42753"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42753"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}