KELVIN MOMO - IVY LEAGUE
This record has the worst fucking album art I’ve ever seen in my life but the music is amazing. Here’s the title track, a real highlight:
It’s my favorite album I’ve heard so far from a genre I learned of recently: Amapiano! It’s a genre of largely quite chill deep house music that has been getting surprisingly popular in South Africa over the last few years, getting onto the charts, taking over the club scene, and becoming a mainstay on South African Tiktok. I can’t believe this style of music is this popular anywhere in the world right now but I am really enjoying it. I hear a TON of similarity to the work of Larry Heard, a US musician active from the 80’s til today who’s released a shitload of atmospheric jazzy house music I’ve been listening to a whole lot this year since I discovered him from the St.Giga recordings.