{"id":85715,"date":"2021-08-25T15:11:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T13:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/native-soul-teenage-dreams\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T18:40:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T16:40:42","slug":"native-soul-teenage-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/native-soul-teenage-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretoria\u2019s Native Soul channel Teenage Dreams on debut album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awesome Tapes from Africa\u2019s new signees announce their first project, an electronic \u201c<em>journey through 2020&#8217;s bizarre mindscape.<\/em>\u201d&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In South African slang, \u201c<em>ma2000<\/em>\u201d is a term used to describe young people who were born after the year 2000 and therefore never experienced apartheid at any point in their lives. The two producers who make up the Pretoria-based duo Native Soul would be considered \u201c<em>ma2000<\/em>\u201d in common parlance: Kgothatso Tshabalala is 19 years old and Zakhele Mhlanga (DJ Zakes) is 18. Until the group\u2019s formation in 2019, they had both been producing music in a variety of styles, from hip-hop to different types of house, including amapiano. Their debut album, <em>Teenage Dreams<\/em>, released by <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/awesome-tapes-from-africa\/\">Awesome Tapes From Africa<\/a>, is nevertheless a project full of maturity. It presents a youthful, electronic and experimental sound, while the arrangements and the project\u2019s composite parts display skill beyond their respective ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2814635828\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=3765312588\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nativesoulsa.bandcamp.com\/album\/teenage-dreams\">Teenage Dreams by Native Soul<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Each track develops incrementally, with various elements introduced in turn. The layers add to the emotion and take <em>Teenage Dreams<\/em> beyond just a dance project, but one that shows what depth can be gained when ability meets creativity. Three tracks are already available: the agitated \u201cThe Journey,\u201d the powerful amapiano piece \u201cTeenage Dreams\u201d and \u201cDead Sangoma,\u201d which makes a discernible nod to the percussive rhythms of Afrohouse. The rest of the album will continue to embody the duo\u2019s South African music heritage by drawing on old school kwaito, trip-hop and even globalised house (the aptly named \u201cUnited As One\u201d will carry a tinge of Moloko\u2019s \u201cSing It Back,\u201d which became an anthemic track in South Africa).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nativesoulsa.bandcamp.com\/album\/teenage-dreams\" target=\"_blank\">Teenage Dreams<\/a><\/em> by Native Soul, out on September 24th on Awesome Tapes from Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to Native Soul in our afro + club playlist on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/38btMIbD4lYEsPbMrN9Bjz?si=FbbbIxauTjWsf3HwGUiFVQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deezer.com\/fr\/playlist\/3244743002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deezer<\/a>.<\/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\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/native-soul-teenage-dreams-1010x1010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85690\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awesome Tapes from Africa\u2019s new signees announce their first project, an electronic \u201cjourney through 2020&#8217;s bizarre mindscape.\u201d&nbsp; In South African slang, \u201cma2000\u201d is a term used to describe young people who were born after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[34102,4282,4096,40767],"location":[7844],"yst_prominent_words":[15182,15176,15174,15184,8414,13802,9834,15183,15177,8438],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85715"}],"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=85715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85715"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=85715"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=85715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}