Soundz Of The South - Inyanga NesiMakade

WE THE PEOPLE | NEW HEART BEAT REMIX 

We The People⚡️New Heartbeat Remix⚡️Ft. Marcus Machado on guitar |  Blackstereo Records

Cape Town, Western Cape, 25 September 2017

Linkris The Genius & YesPlsndThnkYou releases their first single off their new collaborative SWRD² project.

50 Shades of Brown

As a tribute to South Africa’s Heritage month, 50 Shades of Brown is a song that strives to celebrate the diversity, beauty and colorfulness of all Southern Africans, specifically the Coloured people of Southern Africa. The Coloured community of Southern Africa has roots that stems from almost all of the nations and tribes of the world; their gene pool contains DNA strains from Indigenous African Tribes, India, Native America, Asia, Europe, Madagascar and many other places. As a result of this hybrid genetics, the Coloured people have extremely unique ways of doing things; from their food, dress, language, physical attributes and more is all interestingly unique. This uniqueness, when compared to other African tribes, the notion is always brought-up that Coloureds do not have a heritage or a culture but this notion could not be further from the truth!

50 Shades of brown tells the listener that you are beautifull and unique and that your uniqueness should be celebrated, regardless of your skin texture or shade.

“There’s 50 shades of brown from the Cape to Namibia”

SWRD² (double-edged sword and spoken words)

An experimental musical project between lyricist Linkris The Genius and vocalist/lyricist YesPlsNdThnkYou.

Published by Katalis Productions / ISRC-ZA-WG8-17-00010

SWRD²

50 Shades of Brown

50 Shades of Brown - Linkris the Genius x YesPlsndThnkYou (Prod. Gsoul)

Lilium Clocks

Feel Glitched(Gorillaz Addiction)

TPC Sample Challenge 85

Soundz of the South's contribution to Anti-racist organising, Cape Town to Minneapolis. Love and Solidarity to everyone resisting racism, fascism and state brutality. Forward to Peoples Power!

In recent weeks we’ve seen a steep spike in global awareness around police-brutality and the anti-working class,  the anti-black nature of the capitalist system. Across social media people have been posting black squares and reposting messages of solidarity. People across the world have been gathering on streets carrying slogans declaring ‘we can’t breathe’ and ‘get your boot off our necks’. This directly connected to the death of George Floyd in the US, but also, closer to home, to the death of Collins Khosa at the hands of the army. All of this occurring within the context of a global pandemic. It is from this environment that of Soundz of the South (SOS), an anti-capitalist hip-hop collective, is responding. 

Hip-Hop is a historic symbol of the culture of resistance. It originates from young black people in poor communities who organised themselves to host jam sessions in the park and street corner cyphers to share with others their socio-political realities. Hip-Hop is a tool against voicelessness putting power back in the mouths of the people. Soundz of the South uses Hip-Hop to mobilise the community to collective resistance against fascist capitalism and towards actions of solidarity. 

The latest single by the collective, Young, Black and Unfree, sheds light on issues of racist capitalism and its effects on the living conditions of young working class people. This is especially important in this lockdown as we see signs of repression and authoritarianism from the South African state. The government has received major backlash from poor communities whose freedoms have been infringed on during this lockdown. 

The song responds to this state of unfreedom and hopes to inspire South African youth to critically engage with this moment and organise themselves to collectively deal with the challenges they face. Young, Black and Unfree brings together the skills of local and international creatives, this includes:
Verse 1 - Anela
Verse 2 - Java
Verse 3 - Karl Myx
Verse 4 - Tsidi
Beat: Absinth (Odessa Trickmakers)(Athens)
Recorded: Hlumelo Zulu (Cape Town)
Mix: Daniel (Bremen)
Master: Chris (Bremen)
@laplagesound 
Art: Ricardo Pinto Jorge (Maputo/Kigali)

Soundz of the South, based in Khayelitsha, have been doing political education work using hip-hop and poetry for over ten years. Some of their more experimental projects include Hiphop against the Afrikan Hip-Hop Caravan, uQhagamishelwano, Toyi-toyi Live, and the Rebel Sistah Cypher project.

Young, Black and Unfree

Young, Black and unFree

Beats:
(1) Σκλάβος
(3)(7) Το Μίσμα
(2)(4)(5)(6)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14) Venef

Στραβό // κάρτας (Instrumental)

Άσε με // κάρτας x τομίασμα (Instrumental)

Ασ' το, μην του μιλάς // κάρτας (Instrumental)

This song was a collaboration between myself and #HoodnaOrchestra. Recorded in Sept/Oct of 2018 in South Tel Aviv, as part of the #LowRes research I undertook through Art Cube studios in Jerusalem, it is part of a long term project on the #Lemba nation of Southern Afrika, sometimes referred to as the black jews. Full track to be released on Agogo Records

On The Radio (Power Ballad)

The Soundz of the South (SOS) is an anti-capitalist political-arts collective bias to the working class and all oppressed people. We use Hiphop and poetry to spread revolutionary messages, raise consciousness and resist neo-liberalism.

Co-founders and orgainisers of Afrikan Hiphop Caravan. hiphopcaravan.net



Young, Black and unFree

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