Great news is that we hooked up a mega international deal for the Mama Dance! Music Library. It is now distributed on a new label called AFRO Musique in every nook and cranny on the planet by Sonoton, the world's largest independent production music company. And so it should be because MDML 1-25 is now the LARGEST collection of South African production music in the world with over 1000 tracks in almost as many styles, genres and moods.
Look and listen at www.sonofind.com (click new CDs on right, then click AFRO Musique under labels on the left)
And we are proud that the deal was done and dusted in time for FIFA 2010 media madness. We have added special search functions to help users quickly search for our best SOCCER tracks.
We continue to distribute the library in South Africa so please contact us to get YOUR own personal copy of the NORM affiliated Mama Dance! Music Library DVD 1-25. (We are also distributing the latest release of the top Canadian music library - The Decibel Collective, so will send that to you as well.)
Contact
craig@mamadance.com
Mama Dance! Music Library
021 424 0314
WHAT's ON THE MAMA DANCE! MUSIC LIBRARY?
MDML001 - Kwaito House
Kicking kwaito and fresh deep house grooves - proudly young South Africa! This was one of the first Kwaito library CDs ever released. It remains as popular today as it was 10 years ago when it captured the sound of a newly independent SA.
MDML002 - Afro Hip
Chilled to jivey, traditional to dancey - African moods from the dusty shanty towns to breathtaking bushveld sunsets. This is the CD that inspired Ben Amato's Bush Telegraph series. It has been the most successful Mama Dance release to date.
MDML003 - Electro Chic
Seriously hip and lascivious electro dance grooves you will get down to! Produced by some of the biggest names in Cape Town's dance scene, this release contains gems that rock the Long Street clubs way after midnight! Not so Afro.
MDML004 - Ghetto Grown Hip Hop
Cutting-edge phat urban beats by and for the Y Generation.
MDML005 - Slow Motion/Ambient Movement
Ambient textures from the bottom of the ocean to the end of the universe. For moods weird, dark, lonely or calm, meditative, peaceful or curious - this one's got the drones, pads and soundscapes you're after. This CD is not so Afro!
MDML006 - Extreme Beats
Breakbeats, very hard rock and metal, industrial and trance - use at your own risk! We asked South Africa's baddest assed, roughest and toughest underground producers for their meanest dirtiest grungiest sh#$%. This is what we got! It's also not so Afro.
MDML007- Jou Ma se African Guitar
Sunsets, game drives, wine routes and blue African skies - 32 original South African guitar-orientated tracks - solo and accompanied; moods vary from cute, friendly, peaceful and uplifting through to lonely, melancholic and sad.
MDML008 - The Psychedelic Lab
Dark anthems, full-on trance, psy breaks, atmospheres and techoid - world famous SA trance from the legendary Timecode records. Sometimes dark and scary, often uplifting and exciting, always damn hard and intense! Great for sports shows.
MDML009 - Bush Telegraph 1
Composed by melodic genius Ben Amato. Fantastic west and southern African vocals (acapellas by the late and great Judah Herman), plenty of interesting live African instruments and the juiciest grooves - you gotta listen to believe this one!
MDML 010 - Bush Telegraph 2
Even more super quirky, enchanting, uplifting, lush, cheerful, thoughtful... Instruments include mbiras, marimbas, saxes, pennywhistles, accordions and guitars. Think travel, wildlife and environmental programming. Another classic!
MDML 011 - Zekelo (An African Journey)
This is African crossover in another style. The playlist includes uplifting jiving guitars, spine tingling African vocals, infectious Afro funk basslines together with serious moody and dark pieces that will even make the ancestors have sleepless nights.
MDML 012 - Pace, Pulse and Push
Ben Amato, but just not so Afro! This time an energetic and driving mix of rock, fusion, disco, Latin flavour and rock 'n roll. All with extra funk. Ideal for action series, dramas, sports shows and magazine programmes.
MDML 013 - DSTAR's PUMP'n Time
Extremely clean and well produced kwaito, house, R&B, Afro pop, hip hop and other urban flavours. With a variety of moods to suit your programming. Ideal for sports shows and youth programming for South Africa 2010. Dance Mama Dance!
MDML 014 - Nou Pra Jy! Boeremusiek op sy Beste!
The greatest selection of sokkie on Music Library. You will taste the boerewors on these 32 tracks - it's the real west coast deal! Traditional live Afrikaner sokkie complete with accordions and banjos - windsurfing anyone? Yo Ouma!
MDML 015 - Kalahari Surfers (africasouth#1)
A stunningly produced moody mix of deep dub, dance, reggae, broken beats and other worldly flavours from the legendary, yet always fresh Kalahari Surfers. Moods are on the uneasy, dark, intense and edgy side - that is the left of centre side! Heavy!
MDML 016 - Xtra LARGE URBAN
Big city hip hop, R&B and club! Slick and very contempory urban beats bouncing from New York to Jozi, London to Cape Town and Paris to Durbs. Fresh flavoured grooves with various moods - heavy, celebratory, intense, playful, sexy, uplifting...
MDML 017 - Soundz eKasi
100% Mzansi flavour kwaito, Afro pop, house and hip hop - the urban sound of SA ghettoes, the inner cities, shebeens and house parties. Perfect for youth programming, SA soapies and sports shows. Proudly Homegrown!
MDML018 - Bush Telegraph 3
The best melodic African crossover yet! A bumper pack from Ben Amato with memorable vocals, punchy brass, moody synths and mbiras, quirky flutes and penny whistles over irresistible grooves. Moods range from light to dark, uplifting to thoughtful.
MDML019 - Zekelelo 2
From powerful African emotive anthems to vibey upbeat jive tracks, sophisticated dreamy deep Afro house through to an 80's Afro disco winner, this collection is so full of surprises that it can only come from the Mama Dance! Music Library!
MDML020 - Afro Light
An eclectic and spacious hybrid of raw African percussion, cool guitars, funky saxes, groovaliscious basslines, endlessly meandering marimbas and evocative voices. Freshly and cleanly produced with modern precision - Pure Eppelsauce magic!
MDML021 - Mbira Journeys
Truly beautiful music from the southern African region. Instruments include mbira, karimba (thumb piano), timbila, segankore (traditional African violin), flutes and nyanga pan pipes. Moods are calm, hypnotic and peaceful through to busy and uplifting.
MDML022 - Real ! Marimba (and other traditional flavour)
Classic live studio recordings from legendary Cape Town African traditional group, Jika. Haunting call and response vocals, mind-blowing African percussion and the truly unique sound of real South African marimbas. We're proud of this one!
MDML023 - Under an African Sun
This one's for the big screen! Expansive cinematic soundscapes with Big African vocals and percussion, beautiful grand synth arrangements, haunting flutes and emotive lead guitars (oh, and plenty of sweet and quirky pennywhistles!)
MDML024 - Acoustic Guitar Heroes - Derek Gripper
Cape Town's finest classically orientated guitarist composer, Derek delivers a heartfelt potjie of SA flavour material also featuring voice, accordions, double bass and Trumpet. Moods vary from foreboding, sad and anxious to calm, playful and dreamy.
MDML025 - Afright! (African Drama and Suspense)
Don't listen too close to bed time - you'll have tokolosh nightmares! Eerie pads, haunting drones, uncomfortable percussion and horrific melodies. Purrrrfect for soapies, extreme wildlife, action series and other edge-of-the-couch productions.
MDML026 - African Drumthology - Explosive Percussion and MORE!
Over 60 powerful and intense percussion pieces ideal for sports, drama and action. This release will raise the temperature of any production. African-orientated but with plenty of global bangers. Some great instrumental themes as well.
