Music Sandy B – Amajovi Jovi LP^Women Music | Music

Durban producer Sandy B is a giant of the Kwaito scene.

Even so, his post-Apartheid set Amajovi Jovi – considered by many diggers to be one of the defining releases in the history of the distinctively South African style – has long been impossible to find.

Happily, the team behind Invisible City Editions managed to find one and here give the set its first official vinyl issue. It’s a brilliant set, all told, full of “township party music” that joins the dots between rolling U.S house, bottom-end heavy hip-hop, native zulu rap and the kind of sparkling, colourful synths that were once a hallmark of South African bubblegum pop.

Rumour has it that even Sandy B doesn’t own a copy of the original cassette.