{"id":3963,"date":"2016-09-29T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T12:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/teaspoon-the-wavesthe-nzimande-allstars-soweto-disco-ep\/"},"modified":"2018-05-29T02:14:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T01:14:48","slug":"teaspoon-the-wavesthe-nzimande-allstars-soweto-disco-ep","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/teaspoon-the-wavesthe-nzimande-allstars-soweto-disco-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaspoon &#038; The Waves\/The Nzimande Allstars \u2013 Soweto Disco &#8211; EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Teaspoon &amp; the Waves<\/strong> \u2013 led by veteran alto player Teaspoon Ndelu \u2013 released one super rare LP in 1980, covering a mix of disco and funk sounds then popular on South African dancefloors.<strong> &#8220;Oh yeh Soweto<\/strong>&#8221; is a cheeky version of Lamont Dozier\u2019s classic &#8220;<strong>Going back to my roots&#8221;<\/strong> \u2013 changing the lyrics and toughening up the beat, but with the same killer riffs! \u201c<strong>Saturday night Special<\/strong>\u201d is taken from the same LP and is a low-slung, spaced-out Afro Disco groove with great percussion and psychedelic synths. Here it is re-edited by the Sofrito team alongside John Armstrong (compiler of the \u201cSouth African Funk Experience\u201d album on Nascente).<\/p>\n<p>The B-side features a track from <strong>The Nzimande Allstars<\/strong> &#8211; another mysterious group of session musicians. The drawn-out groove of &#8220;<strong>Highway Sporo Disco&#8221; <\/strong>fuses a heavy disco backing with jive guitar and stellar horns and organ for a unique taste of the underground dancefloors of the Cape.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sofrito Super Singles<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sofrito Super Singles<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Teaspoon &amp; the Waves<\/strong> \u2013 led by veteran alto player Teaspoon Ndelu \u2013 released one super rare LP in 1980, covering a mix of disco and funk sounds then popular on South African dancefloors.<strong> &#8220;Oh yeh Soweto<\/strong>&#8221; is a cheeky version of Lamont Dozier\u2019s classic &#8220;<strong>Going back to my roots&#8221;<\/strong> \u2013 changing the lyrics and toughening up the beat, but with the same killer riffs! \u201c<strong>Saturday night Special<\/strong>\u201d is taken from the same LP and is a low-slung, spaced-out Afro Disco groove with great percussion and psychedelic synths. 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