Sweat X - EbonyIvroyTron

I was bumping this track basically the whole year last year and have been meaning to post it ever since this blog started. One of my favourite artists on the South African music scene, Spoek Mathambo, was once in a two-man electro group with producer Markus Wormstorm (of Max Normal/Real Estate Agents/other obscure South African music projects fame) back in 2007 before he formed Playdoe with Sibot and before he made his career as a solo artist. But enough with the history lesson, back to the track.

One review of the EP from which this track comes said the following:
“Sweat X are the last word in the whole hip-house/new rave/electro-booty funk thing that’s so new it hasn’t even happened yet.” - Vice

“Cape Town’s hyperactive, gutter-mouthed, ‘African electro’ duo, Sweat X... armed with a bunch of ‘future primitive’ rave funk, glitchy melodies and club-friendly glam hip-house, have arrived at exactly the right time.”  - Time Out

Based on those two reviews alone, you can already catch the vibe, self-described Afro-Futurists Sweat X never released a lot of music, but man it was some funky shit. The song in question however was something fierce, a glitchy sweaty house number with Mathambo's signature silky sexual raps and African lady vocals taunting us on the dancefloor keep us grooving until the final minute where the beat drops into a sensual head-bumping booty shaking boom in the room.

Enjoy a SuperSonic SpeakerBox exclusive download below:

Ebonyivorytron - Sweat X

As a bonus here is another track off the EP which Spoek posted as a free download on his Soundcloud page:
Sweat.X - Interstella (prod. by Markus Wormstorm) by Spoek Mathambo

Don't forget to check out all the other things Spoek has been up to since then, he is totally rad.

Shayne