Watch Shangaan Electro kingpin, Nozinja’s new video “Tsekeleke” How do you capture the the Afro Futurist genius of Nozinja’s idiosyncratic EDM hybrid of kwaito, Tsonga disco, Mzansi house and folk music on video without resorting to blaxploitation clichés? Well, for the Shangaan Electro pioneer’s debut single on hipster UK label Warp, filmmaker and regular RS photographer, Chris
Watch Shangaan Electro kingpin, Nozinja’s new video “Tsekeleke”
How do you capture the the Afro Futurist genius of Nozinja’s idiosyncratic EDM hybrid of kwaito, Tsonga disco, Mzansi house and folk music on video without resorting to blaxploitation clichés?
Well, for the Shangaan Electro pioneer’s debut single on hipster UK label Warp, filmmaker and regular RS photographer, Chris Saunders goes back to the future with a retro-futurist mash-up of surrealist traditional Shangaan visual tropes that channel the track’s lo-tech hypnosis with a funkadelic kaleidoscope of mchongolo, xigubu, makwaya and xibelani dance moves.