But beneath the rhythm, the keys exude a calmness that slowly comes to the fore, to where it even sounds like crickets rise into the mix. Joe's "Dharma," with its cool claps and swelling keys, has a slow but nifty beat that leads directly into Guti's "Hurt (Yoruba Soul Mix)." Vibraslap, roto-toms, double-picked guitar and a shaker-laced house beat rattle around the track, converging to send the mix out on an upswing. Culoe De Song Zulu Spirit Mix (9:32) Reggie Dokes Culoe de Song. The canned claps give way to a lurching tom roll and the nagging guitar lick and wordless vocal of Corinda's "Sleepless Nights." The knocking wood that drives Boddhi Satva's "Skin Diver" dribbles to an almost complete stop by the time of illuMonate DJs' carefully paced "Nomvula." It's as melodramatic as an Ennio Morricone score, but it dampens the effect of the last two tracks. De Song Music Umoya (5:32) Culoe de Song. "Aftermath" takes two minutes to develop, though it builds to a clanging, thrilling peak before plunging back down into "Juice." Again, De Song takes a winding path towards a peak, scattering cymbals at random intervals before finding a coherent beat. The mix wanders off again with two De Song tracks in the middle of the mix. Thankfully, &ME's thumb piano-laced "Trilogy" brings the energy up. Edit Release All Versions of this Release New Submission.
2016: Recommendations Reviews Add Review r9376147 Release. De Song's synth strings and echoing tribal chant add texture but don't move the mix forward. Culoe De Song Watergate 21 Label: Watergate Records WG 021 Series: Watergate 21 Format: CD, Mixed. But by the time we get to "Bang Royales," the pace starts to lag. what's this amazing track Buy XLR8R Podcast 450 10 Years: Culoe De Song. Ominous and queasy bells introduce De Song's "Deadman's Walk," though he lets in glints of light with well-timed cymbals and a church organ drone that blooms into a rising chord progression. Comprising four exclusive De Song tracks mixed in with other exclusives from newcomers like Em Ex and Corinda, it's at times thrilling, but bogs down at crucial points. He now caps the year with the 21st entry in Watergate's mix series. On the day of its release, the album hit #2 on iTunes in South Africa, just behind Beyoncé's Lemonade, suggesting that De Song had become one of the biggest dance music names in his home country. 2016 was a breakout year for him, as his ambitious second album, Washa, showed that he wasn't afraid of working across a wider canvas, conceiving of an 80-minute epic that wove a post-apocalyptic folkloric tale into his deep house rhythms. He's released music on an variety of labels and played gigs around the world, his sound plumbing deep house while also exploring tribal timbres specific to his home. Since his 2009 Innervisions single, "The Bright Forest," announced him to the worldwide house community, South Africa's Culoe De Song has been on the ascent. Still riding high off the recent release of Culoe De Songs Watergate Mix we keep it coming with four exclusive tracks from Culoe himself on our first EP of.The album got him award nominations in multiple categories, for the 2010 South African Music Awards, 8 the Namibian Museke Awards, 9 and the 2010 Metro FM awards. Culoe De Song – Bang Royales (exclusive) Culoe De Song then started on his international showings while at the same time releasing his debut album, A Giant Leap, an album that went gold.Culoe De Song – Deadman’s Walk (exclusive).To preserve the standards set by our previous selectors, who have set the bar incredibly high, we’ve enlisted the genius of one of todays brightest stars to take the helm for Watergate Mix 21 the one and only, Culoe De Song.
We are glad to present the next protagonist of our compilation series: Culoe De Song, already a star in his homeland South Africa, composed a true gem of a mix for us! The majority of the tracks has been produced exclusively for us and create a timeless house mix with a native african touch that is our Watergate 21! INFOĪfter the landmark twentieth instalment of our Watergate Mix Series we knew we had to secure an impressive successor to the throne.
Wir sind hocherfreut, Euch den nächsten Protagonisten unserer Compilationreihe vorzustellen: Culoe De Song, bereits ein Star in seiner Heimat Südafrika, gibt sich die Ehre und hat uns eine wahre Perle eines Mixes gezaubert! Ein Grossteil der enthaltenen Tracks ist exklusiv für die Watergate 21 produziert worden und diese fügen sich nahtlos zu einem zeitlosen Housemix mit afrikanischem Touch zusammen!