Tumi
TZ Deluxe - Where were you?
In a move no one could predict, two of Africa's iconic rappers teamed up and did a mixtape tribute to kwaito music. It takes great courage to step out of your comfort zone as an artist and do your thing on unfamiliar rhythmic patterns but they seem to have done it effortlessly, rapping in between classic kwaito songs. Kwaito defined the post apartheid mentality of a once disenfranchised youth and it's only fitting that tribute be shown to such a turning point in South African home grown music. This project was recorded in 3 days and has amassed over 4000 downloads in 2 days. Pretty good in our opinion. Some think it's funny, some think it's genius, make your own opinion. Have you got yours?
TUMI:
This is a mixtape Zubz and i did in 3 days. We hadn’t worked together
the whole of last yer and that felt unusual for us.
December always makes us think back to the golden era of kwaito and it hit us, do a kwaito mixtape. Our approach was not to over think the process, just do what comes and we set a three day limit for ourselves. Our engineer Instro chopped up the old school kwaito hits and we wrote song 3 songs a day. We not trying to ride on anybody’s fame or glory, we just wanted to reintepret some of our favourite kwaito tunes and try and relive those magic moments, but most
importantly pay homage to the original artists.