It has been an eventful year for us across the Pennines in Manchester - we've been lucky enough to oversee a string of vibe-filled parties in the Soup Kitchen basement with the likes of Awesome Tapes From Africa, Highlife: Auntie Flo & Andrew Huntleys + Palmers, Thris Tian, dEbruit, Spoek Mathambo, K.O.G & The Zongo Brigade, Al Dobson Jr, Sumochief, General Ludd and more,
One night that has stuck with us, however, was when Will Holland aka Quantic came to Manchester on a cold Thursday in February and played 3 hours of sublime music to a packed out club. From soul, funk and disco, to afrobeat, cumbia, house, footwork, juke and jazz - Quantic weaves genres together like no-one else, and we're happy to say he's coming back to play for us this autumn (this time on a weekend!).
Joining him we have a special guest all the way from South Africa - pioneer of self-coined 'Bacardi House' DJ Spoko. Spoko, born Marvin Ramalepe, was raised in the rural town of Tzaneen in northern South Africa. He started producing music at age 12 after moving to Atteridgeville, a black township outside the mostly white city of Pretoria. There, he resided in an area called Ghost Town, near the township’s cemetery, where he earned the nickname Ghost. In 2002, he began to regularly commute 40 miles south to Soweto where he studied sound engineering for three years under Nozinja, the creator of Shangaan Electro style. Under Nozinja’s tutelage, Spoko developed his own take on kwaito, which he aptly named Bacardi House.
Bacardi House is as funky as it is frenetic, characterized by an assault of militant snares, dramatic strings, and mesmerizing basslines, tougher and grittier than the typical South African Kwaito.
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