Phelimuncasi & Metal Preyers

• Izigqinamba [Nyege Nyege Tapes, 2024] A

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Izigqinamba [Nyege Nyege Tapes, 2024]
Phelimuncasi are the most prestigious and also it would seem avant practitioners of the Durban-centered South African electronic dance genre gqom. Gqom is oft said to eschew "four-on-the-floor," which among other things means many oldtimers feel it doesn't have much of what they would call a beat. The London-Chicago Metal Preyers are artier and more avant. Put the two together and they create pulsating, atmospheric music suffused with sounds, grooves, and occasionally tunelets sung, chanted, or just voiced in tongues unknown to aural tourists like me and you. Always this changeable music generates at the very least an unprecedented groove and/or gestalt that has a way of breaking into tunes, sound effects, or both. Fascinating and atmospheric, this nine-track album lasts barely half an hour. But it feels not just daring but substantial. A