Waptrendz- Types of Music in South Africa

Kwaito:
Kwaito became popular in the townships in the 1990s and now is played almost continuously on radio stations, in clubs and in people's homes. This South African music style puts an African edge on dance music and originally grew from U.S. house music. Tracks are digitally manufactured in the studio and instrumentation is kept to a minimum while the beat prevails. Lyrics are generally chanted or rapped. Well-known kwaito groups include Boom Shaka, Bongo Maffin and Abashante.

Iscathamiya:
This traditional Zulu music style is most commonly represented today by the group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Iscathamiya is a call-and-response choral music performed by South African men. The style is loosely based on 19th century four-part harmony jubilee singing by African-Americans. Ladysmith Black Mambazo popularized the music in the 1960s, developing a softer, rhythmic style that was pioneered by the King Star Brothers two decades before. Paul Simon used iscathamiya harmonies on his 1986 "Graceland" album. http://www.waptrendz.com/wallpapers

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South African Jazz:
South African jazz was influenced by the music heritage of the country's black population and also by the United States. South African jazz grew from marabi, a traditional music with a birth in the townships of South Africa in the 1930s. Marabi was a three-chord keyboard style with a repetitive pattern linked to ragtime and blues in America. The marabi sound made its way into South African dance bands in the 1920s and developed into the mbaqanga, a form of South African jazz that still is heard today. http://www.waptrendz.com/ringtone

Kwela:
Kwela is an offshoot of marabi music and rose to prominence in South Africa in the 1950s. The artist Spokes Mashiyane and the All Star Flutes was one big name during this era. Kwela music is played primarily on a pennywhistle (tin flute). Kwela's harmonies are simple with a repetitive rhythmic foundation. Kwela's musical style features elements of African-American jazz and swing. http://www.waptrendz.com/video

Reggae:
Reggae in South Africa has strong links to reggae from the Caribbean, but with African drums and a strong sense of emotion conveyed in the lyrics. Lucky Dube, arguably one of the country's biggest reggae, and music, stars won the Best Selling African Recording Artist award at the World Music Awards ceremony in 1996 for his album "Serious Reggae Business." He recorded million-selling records and performed across the world. Lucky Dube died in 2007, the victim of a suspected car hijacking. http://www.waptrendz.com/music/latestmp3

DIABLOS DEL RITMO - "The Colombian Melting-pot 1960 - 1985"

I first laid eyes on a Colombian record in 2006, in Montreal, Canada. I was offered a copy of “Come se Hace? Ah!”, an excellent compilation released by Discos Fuentes in the mid-1970s containing Wganda Kenya’s “Shakalaodé,” a Colombian version of Fela Kuti’s “Shakara,” which I included in my African DJ sets. Not the most original idea for someone trying to diversify, you might say, but it sparked an interest in Latin music and the desire to find more.

Pictures of Colombian music shops I had seen years ago, whose walls were completely covered in Nigerian record sleeves, had anchored themselves in my mind, and I was now secretly hoping to find a mixture of Colombian music influenced by African grooves. I began scouring the Internet and discovered blogs that dealt with vintage African music still popular in the picturesque cities on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, Cartagena and Barranquilla. I then contacted the bloggers to inquire whether they would be interested in exchanging vinyl records. The response - mostly from Barranquilla - was positive, and a few days later, I had already received a  “most wanted” list. Music from Nigeria especially seemed to be very much in demand. http://www.waptrendz.com/music/latestmp3

A month later, I had managed to get half of the wanted tunes. But when I was asked which records I would like in return, I found myself in a dilemma since I did not have a clear notion of the scale or depth of what was out there. As a result, I sent a list of “obvious” artists: Michi Sarmiento, Afrosound, Wganda Kenya and Julian y su Combo, to name a few, with the latter particularly rousing my curiosity. Additionally, the magazine, Wax Poetics, had published an article about Colombian music, co-written by Will Holland, with a two-page spread featuring a multitude of record covers. And although I had no idea what those records were actually all about, I scanned and sent the pages to my new trading partners in Colombia. http://www.waptrendz.com/ringtone 

I arrived in Cartagena, the birth place of the mighty Discos Fuentes, in March 2007. My luggage? African records. Two hundred 7 inch singles and around 100 LPs.
Until then, except for macabre tales about drug cartels, Pablo Escobar against Los Pepes, government forces fighting the Farc guerrilla group and a dose of kidnapping, I didn't know much about Colombia. Sadly, the image I just pictured is the impression held by most people about that country. So yes, I have to admit that I was a little tense. I had been to many different places on many different continents but I cannot remember seeing anything as beautiful and as warm as ‘La Costa,’ with its indescribable human warmth. I didn’t understand much of what was said around me, but the aura, the positive energy, the kindness of the people of the region is so addictive that you have to fall in love instantly with the Caribbean coast. Cartagena was nice with all its little restaurants and cafeterias around Getsemani, the beautiful old town surrounded by that impressive antique mural and its exclusive lodges, but eventually one does end up feeling like a tourist. And since that was not the feeling I was craving, I decided to continue to Barranquilla where collectors where expecting me. http://www.waptrendz.com/wallpapers

I arrived at the bus station and I could see blogger and African record collector Fabian Althona waving with a Michi Sarmiento record. On our way towards the city center, Fabian told me he thought someone was playing a prank on him - he didn’t believe I actually existed! http://www.waptrendz.com/video

We arrived at Fabian’s home and I pulled out the records I had brought.  I must admit that I was somehow surprised by the kind of excitement around the record player - goosebumps all over the place and guys seriously grooving, something I didn't experience during my trips to Africa. "I have been listening to some of these songs since my childhood," said Fabian, “but I had no idea who the artists were. The sound systems on the Caribbean coast want exclusive, sole ownership to the music and, to make sure nobody would ever be able to recognize it, the original covers were thrown away and the label stickers were drawn over. For example, this (Congolese) song, “Ya Nini” by Orchestre Veve, is known here as “La Mencha” - that’s the name it was given since we didn't know the original title. To hold the original record now is an amazing feeling." http://www.waptrendz.com

Oscars sorry for 'tone deaf' portrayal of Asians at Academy Awards

Oscar organisers have apologised for what a group of actors and filmmakers of Asian descent called the “tone-deaf” portrayal of Asians during this year’s Academy Awards ceremony.

The Academy, which has pledged to double its numbers of women and minority members by 2020, on Tuesday said that it “regrets that any aspect of the Oscar telecast was offensive.

“We are committed to doing our best to ensure that material in future shows be more culturally sensitive” it said in a statement.

February’s Oscar ceremony was hosted by black comedian Chris Rock, who lambasted Hollywood for its lack of diversity and in particular the lack of African-Americans among the 20 acting nominees for a second straight year.

Members of the Asian community were upset after the show at a skit in which Rock introduced three Asian children as Academy accountants.

In another part of the ceremony, British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, appearing as a presenter, made an apparently off the cuff remark about the size of Asian genitalia.

In a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, double Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, Star Trek actor George Takei and more than 20 other people criticised the “tasteless and offensive skits” regarding Asians and asked to ensure that people of all races are portrayed with dignity. http://www.waptrendz.com/music/latestmp3

“In light of criticism over Oscars So White, we were hopeful that the telecast would provide the Academy a way forward and the chance to present a spectacular example of inclusion and diversity. Instead, the Oscars show was marred by a tone-deaf approach to its portrayal of Asians,” said the letter.

“We’d like to know how such tasteless and offensive skits could have happened and what process you have in place to preclude such unconscious or outright bias and racism toward any group in future Oscars telecasts,” said the letter.

The letter was also signed by former Grey’s Anatomy star Sandra Oh, France Nuyen of The Joy Luck Club as well as documentary makers and producers, all of whom are already Academy members.

YOUR HANDY GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF AFRICAN MUSIC BLOGS

Courtesy of Ross Simonini's piece in this week's Voice, we break down the various sources of far-flung music on the web. . .

Voodoo Funk

"Frank Conakry, a/k/a DJ Soulpusher, recently spent three years living in West Africa for the sole purpose of crate-digging. He scoured 30-year-old private music collections and the homes of old musicians in search of 'Afrobeat, jerk, and soul' records—'not high life or rhumba or cha-cha,' he clarifies. During this search, he was robbed at knifepoint, battled scorpions inside record sleeves, and endured respiratory infections from colonies of mold spores."

Benn Loxo Du Taccu

"Matt Yanchyshyn's 'world music for the masses' blog Benn Loxo Du Taccu follows his travels from China to Syria to Denmark, where he quizzes locals about their music scenes and unearths everything from Turkish hip-hop to Argentine classical music. 'More and more of my friends and associates who do not fall into the stereotypical world-music demography—i.e., old, white, and male—had started paying more attention to music from outside America and Europe,' Shimkovitz says. 'There seemed to be an opportunity to encourage younger people like my friends, who weren't around for the initial world-beat boom in the '80s.'" http://www.waptrendz.com/music/latestmp3

Cool Places Radio

"Tony Lowe, a member of the band Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities, started up the Cool Places blog/radio show with Dean Bein, owner of the True Panther record label. Essentially, the blog is a vehicle for their credo, 'Global musical thinking will be part of what saves us as a species,' which seems to be a more elaborate way of articulating what all these blogs are achieving through endless research, writing, mixtaping, and, in a way, proselytizing. Cool Places does their part by tracing the roots and development of Peruvian chicha and Southeast Asian music while sharing anecdotes about extraordinary cross-cultural musical influences, such as Javanese slaves in Guyana who play Eastern-tinged dancehall reggae. 'We think it's actually part of a larger shift in musical awareness,' Bein and Lowe write. 'Music blogs and new breeds of international-music-focused labels have a lot to do with people opening their ears to music they would've dismissed before. If we can expand that acceptance and enthusiasm into all aspects of foreign cultures, we'd truly be living as the global nation we should be. Music is just one of the first smoke signals.'" http://www.waptrendz.com/ringtone

Likembe

"John Beadle, a machinist at Harley-Davidson, tends the Likembe blog because he 'wants to bring to light some little-known Nigerian sounds, particularly Igbo music, which is almost unheard outside of Nigeria.'"

Awesome Tapes From Africa

"Brian Shimkovitz, a 'trained ethnomusicologist' who traveled through Ghana on a Fulbright scholarship, stocks his Awesome Tapes From Africa blog with the lo-fi recordings that he picked up along the way."

Ghetto Bassquake

"Ghetto Bassquake, to name one of many, covers baile funk, reggaetón, dancehall, and other international dance-club beats."

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Give your fans a free gift and drive traffic to your site!

For most of us, the Christmas season doesn’t really start until after Thanksgiving, and that’s great! It makes this time of year even more special, but it also means, as of today, you’ve got the next few weeks to prepare yourself and your artist website for the upcoming rush.

Want to spend the holidays giving thanks back to current fans for their support, making some new ones in the process, and driving traffic to your site? Get in the spirit and start giftin’!

Pick a window of time in December to offer up some goodies on your site – it could be the whole month; it could be just one day – and start a mini-campaign of giveaways that displays your generosity, welcomes new listeners, and exemplifies the ideals of the holidays. http://www.waptrendz.com/music/latestmp3

Give away a free song

When we talk about giving something away on your site, a free download of one of your strongest songs is always at the top of the list, and the holidays are no different. Want to make this count? Put your best foot forward and offer a free mp3 of your last single, or simply a song you feel will grab any new listener. This might not resonate with longtime fans who are already familiar with the track, but if it’s a song they love, they’re apt to tell their friends to go grab it while it’s free. http://www.waptrendz.com/ringtone

Release a holiday single

Or, record an exclusive holiday song and give that away. There’s still time to get it distributed, too. Then you could offer it up for free on CD Baby and on your site, but also let people know that it’s on Spotify and Apple Music so they can easily add it to their Christmas playlists. Better yet: create your own Spotify playlist, including the song, and direct folks there! http://www.waptrendz.com/video

Get creative with it!

Make a short, video Christmas card and mention your freebies there.
Record and give away an “unplugged” version of one your better-known tracks.
Customize cheap stockings from the Dollar Store, fill them with your CDs, and hold a drawing from the pool of email addresses you get from downloads over the course of the month to give them away.
Now is also a great time to spruce up your website, whether that means cleaning up your current iteration or holiday-izing it for December. Make sure if you’ve got some new eyes on it, it’s reflecting everything you want people to know about you and your music. http://www.waptrendz.com

Start A Music Blog - Waptrendz

If you’ve talked with me before, you know that running websites is what I do.

Sophistefunk has always been one of my favorite blogs, but my inbox for this site looks something like this:

70% people submitting music
29% people asking me questions about starting a music blog or how to run a music blog
1% people submitting their music video which consists of puking cats (I shit you not, I actually got a submission like this once)
Obviously I can only accept a tiny chunk of the music submitted — otherwise I’d be posting 20 times a day and 19 of those posts wouldn’t be top-notch quality.

The thing is, I can (and have) answered a ton of questions about setting up a music blog, but it seems like it’s the same questions over, and over, and over again. http://www.waptrendz.com

So I figured: why not may one complete guide for anybody that’s curious? A step-by-step instruction manual for starting a music blog, if you will.

And that is exactly what this is!

Why Start A Music Blog?
I’ve got to admit, most people think about blogs and bloggers like this:

Maybe back in 2005, blogging was like that.

Nowadays though, blogs are focused and they are topical, meaning you have to provide a lot of value/entertainment in a single topic (like electronic music!).

Running a music blog can be rewarding; here’s just a few cool goings on that I’ve experienced from running Sophistefunk:

I’ve been invited to live shows and concerts all around the country, for free, even had air-fare paid.
Hung out with musicians that I’ve followed for years at said events.
Free music and pre-releases in my inbox. I often get albums multiple weeks before the official release date.
People & labels have sent me free stuff (headphones, shirts, concert tickets, etc.)
Let alone the fact that running a blog can be a part-time job’s (or even a full-time job) worth of income. http://www.waptrendz.com

10 Free latest mp3 downloads by Waptrendz

If you’re the one looking for answers to question i.e. Name of the website to find and download mp3 songs? Then we recommend you must check this opinion piece.

Are you are dedicated music listener and crazy about collection then from now it will not be a difficult task to get music on your hard disk. Music is one of the best method of relaxation which stimulate our brain. Every love to listen music according to its interest and craving more. In today’s world, music is pervasive and becoming part of every moment of our lives. But when the question raised that from where you will have your favorite music, no one even knows more than two or three websites. So to overcome from this condition we decided to gather some of the best website to find and download mp3 songs and tracks for free, some of these are legally also.

All you have to do is check out our below list and choose the best which you feel worthy. So, let’s begin with our article:

1. Dilandau
Downloading Mp3 songs is made very easy by this awesome website here you can share, listen and download music freely without paying any cents. Also here you can find some of the best song remixes which you didn’t find anywhere else.

2. Artist Direct
Another great alternative for download free music is Artist direct, one of the best website with more than 30k followers on Facebook. This website not only provide you the facility to download mp3 music, you can also download music videos including more than 22000+ bands, 450000+songs.

3. Jamendo
Music track on Jamendo are absolutely free and legal. Here you can download songs in Mp3 And Ogg Format. This website provides complete information about singer, album and other news related to music. Also has a nice option of stream and download the whole album at once. This website also gives complete information about artist and album. It also includes more than 40000 songs to choose best one.

4. Songlover
Song lover is also a good alternative to download free mp3 music without paying nothing. This website provides you the option to download complete Hindi, English and Pakistani songs just with one click. Also give the news about upcoming albums.

5. Last Fm
Last FM is one of the awesome websites to download mp3 music, one thing which i like the most about this website that songs are divided in different category like pop, rap, jazz and other so users have a choice to check song according to their taste. Last Fm provide both video and audio music.

6. BeeMp3
BeeMp3 is the best website for me because whenever I’m not able to download mp3 track from another website this website really help me to get that song, also the quality of the songs are really good. This website is recommended by me to all users. http://www.waptrendz.com/ringtone

7. Epitonic
Epitonic posted free and legal MP3s available for streaming and download, working directly with thousands of artists and labels. All of the music was selected, written about, and posted by a staff of young DJs, touring artists, record collectors, and music lovers based in San Francisco and Chicago

8. Mp3Fusion
Mp3Fusion is also another website same like discussed above, this website index and organize 100 thousands of free music downloads for you to listen to and download. Mp3Fusion also provide you a great variety of lyrics for your songs.

9. Mp3.com
Yourmp3 is another good website which you must give a try to download free mp3 music. Here you find a great variety of songs with different category. MP3.com the users can find new talent and artists can promote their own music.  Free MP3 downloads are available from thousands of artists. http://www.waptrendz.com/music/latestmp3

10. waptrendz.com
Search for your favourite artists, Mp3 songs, Mp3 Ringtones, Wallpapers and Videos in the Waptrendz's search box inside. Hit your artist and listen to song online or download it. Search for your favorite songs in Waptrendz and free mp3 downloads these in the best possible quality for free. http://www.waptrendz.com