I don’t think I need a 1000 words to describe house music and paint a pretty picture on how house music has shaped generations. Is it a feeling! – And because of this statement I have to ask, is there something like “house music generation”? House music transcends age, gender, and back ground. House music can be made to fit into any culture in South Africa and the world through: dance, electronic, tribal, minimal, deep and jazz infused and the mix genre get more infuse by time zone, for music is constantly changing, evolving and house is no different. With every producer and DJ that enters the music scene a new element is introduced. Giving it a new personality, a new life.
It moves with us, moving us as it grows.
House music in South Africa has exploded in the last couple of years. Our local DJs are touring the world and performing on international stages and international DJs, soloist and producers are flocking to our shores to perform on our stages, and there is a good reason for that: South Africans listen to more house music per metropolitan than any other country in the world.
Every country has its own house music scene, but South Africa is where house found a home. House music is part of a pop culture movement that is taking South Africa by storm. The house scene is like no other it has given young South Africans a voice, a platform to express themselves and show the world their talent. A place where they can come together and pay tribute to the house masters that came before them like your DJ Christos, Oskido, Iggy Smallz, Dj Fresh, Khabzela, Glen Lewis and Vinny Da Vinci as they compilations has inspired endless list of DJs to pursue a career in House music. These DJs paved the way for the new cohort of DJs and producers. The producers that are making beats in their bedrooms studios on their desktop pc and the DJs that are trying to find that one gig that’s going to put them on the same stage as the “pioneers of house” and get themselves nominated for that lucrative award.
Do you remember the day you fell in love with house music. I was in high school (yes that long ago). I had never felt anything like it. It was freedom. The euphoria, my friends dancing with me. We had been exposed to kwaito, hiphop, R&B and Afropop, but this was something new. It was like meeting an old friend that You knew and yet felt so new and good to meet up. The collecting of fun thought fairy tale musical journey has started. The rush to see who had the latest song, by the hottest DJ and the dance move to go along with it. That’s when we discovered the different genres. The depth of it. And right there we knew “if house was a nation I wanna be president”!
There is no “Generation of House” that would imply that house music belongs to a certain group of people, and it won’t be our generation cause we didn’t start it. There are different generations that have embraced the art that is house music, and they have shaped it and bent it and made it into something that is bigger than us, bigger than right here and right now. And with every song a new generation is born. New memories, new dance moves, new talent and most importantly new music.
“If house was a nation I wanna be president”! –
Roland Clark, Urban Soul – President House (Acapella)
Written by – Nova
