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E & S Brothers’ 1985 album Taduma holds a unique yet overlooked place in the history of South African dance music.  When Shadrack Ndlovu and Ernest Segeel teamed up with Dane Stevenson, owner of Blue Tree Studio in downtown Johannesburg, and journeyman producer Taso Stephanou, South Africa’s bubblegum era had just begun, spurred on by the success of Shangaan disco. The relative success of their debut 12” ‘Don’t Bang The Taxi Door’, marketed aggressively at taxi ranks throughout the country, helped put the Blue Tree label on the map and E & S were invited back to record a full album: Taduma, featuring on keyboards Dr Buke, an in-demand session player from Soweto.

Rooted in Africa, yet purely electronic, Taduma was a moderate hit, spurred by tracks like ‘Taxi Door’ and ‘Mhane’, its hypnotic refrain ‘Mhane, famba na wena’ meaning ‘Mother, I am going to you’. Other tracks like ‘Mapantsula’ and ‘Be Careful’ place Taduma within the street-savvy ‘pantsula’ style and dance synonymous with consecutive waves of music from disco to kwaito, house and beyond, while ‘Sikele Masike’ repurposes a traditional Shangaan work song. Vocally E & S are closer to rapping than singing, in a combination of English and vernacular – predating other credited pioneers of kwaito in SA like Senyaka and Spokes H. Driving the music instead of vocals are waves of searing synths over rudimentary but explosive drum machine sounds – the word ‘Taduma’ meaning the sound of the drum.

Remastered from the original tapes and reissued for the first time, pre-order Taduma (AFS053) here: https://www.rushhour.nl/record/vinyl/taduma

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Future Times is very pleased to announce our next release, a single from Lifted with a special featured guest on vocals, Panda Bear. Core Lifters Jeremy Hyman and Max D join forces with new collaborator Justin Kelly on synths, who conjures pads that shift between glazing together and fizzing back apart. Hyman took on arrangement and FX duties, splashing deteriorating song into the night, and nestling stray drum machines, foley sounds, and bass weight together into a beatless bed for Panda Bear’s sweet and romantic vocal. In Hyman’s hands it is dubbed dizzyingly, though its simple message cuts through: spending time with someone you love is the best.

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