Impazamo, by Menzi

Impazamo

by Menzi

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ripley Ferocious and danceable, my fave Favorite track: QGM Dance.

Kush Arora This sets the BAR on folks from within the GQOM scene pushing new boundaries as opposed to outsiders re interpretting the powerful sound.Top notch nihilism and power. in my top of 2020. Favorite track: QGM Dance.

steevee300 A gqom compilation released a few years ago featured a song called "Cruel Banger," and that sums up Menzi's aesthetic. This is music that emerges slowly out of an electronic haze, with nothing remotely approaching melody and menace to burn. It sounds evil as hell, and I mean that as high praise!

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1.	Impazamo 04:10	buy track
2.	Minimal Surge 02:08	buy track
3.	Underground Abaphansi 04:03	buy track
4.	QGM Dance 02:18	buy track
5.	GQOM Tera feat Ecko Bazz 04:08	buy track
6.	Zulu Warrior 03:18	buy track

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Menzi turns out the darkest Gqom on road with this ridiculously strong debut solo release by Infamous Boiz’ Menzi brimming with cyperpunk-cinematic sound design via hard-synched taxi techno drums, now pressed on limited edition vinyl for the first time.

Getting deeper than anyone into the mechanics and mindset of South Africa’s viral township techno sound, 28 year old Menzi Shabane makes seismic moves on the ‘Impazamo’ EP with six tracks of gobsmacking Gqom pressure advanced by shocking levels of sound design detail and searing synth dynamics.

Menzi hails from the Umlazi township of Durban, where he rose to prominence as one half of Gqom pioneers, Infamous Boiz, whose influence is now felt shuddering from speakers in clubs across the world. Aside from producing, Menzi also runs the annual Gqom Bloq party, Festive Road Block Umlazi, and recently has supplied beats for some of South Africa’s biggest acts (Moonchild Sanelly, Mahotella Queens, Zolani Mahola and Zakes Bantwini), but it’s this EP released last year on limited edition cassette that has put his name on the global dancefloor map.
Daring to mess with the machinery of Gqom’s sharply defined style, Menzi opens it up like Hellraiser’s puzzlebox to truly invoke and unleash the sound’s darkside spirits. The title tune’s cinematic intro ratchets new levels of industrial drama to the sound that follow thru in the pained hollers and BM-style screeches of ‘Minimal Surge’ and the sheets of acid rain drone that soak ‘Underground Abaphansi’, while the percussive ballistics of ‘QGM’ and the jaw-dropping ‘Zulu Warrior’ recall the deep fwd sound design of Nazar’s experimental kuduro style, and Uganda’s Ecko Bazz plays the role of shaman or spirit guide in the pitch black midnight tone of ‘GQOM Tera’.

A staggering set packing the strongest Gqom tracks on road right now, ‘Impazamo’ is unmissable for lovers of dark, heavy and futuristic dance music from all corners of the club.

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released April 15, 2020

All tracks recorded between 2019 - 2020 in Umlazi Durban and Boutiq Studios Kampala, Uganda.
Mastered at Declared Sound
Artwork by Kid Gringo

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