Down South with DJ Donavinchi

Now streaming-on-demand, this edition is packed with hits from the southern part of Africa. In the first half, Zambia’s DJ Donavinchi drops a set of fresh tunes from Zambia, Namibia and South Africa. Watch out for Donavinchi’s southern African club nights in Prague – there was one on the night that this show was originally broadcast, and there will be definitely be more of them in the future. In the second half of the show, we revisit some Friday Ripple kwaito and Mzansi house favourites. The full playlist looks like this:

Intro:
Cactus feat. JK- Concrete Mixer [Zambia] (Mondo Music)
DJ Cleo – Durban’s Dance [South Africa] (Will of Steel)

DJ Donavinchi on the decks:
Petersen Zagaze - Dance with You [Zambia] (Claire Records)
Shy Man - Fendela Fenduze [Zambia] (white label)
JK feat. Leo Muntu - Enapal [Zambia] (Mondo Music)
Baska - Nafuti Nafuti [Zambia] (Alpha Entertainments)
Slap Dee feat. P Jay - Nichigwile [Zambia] (XYZ Entertainment)
Chika Uwalubana - Lupupa Lupupa [Zambia] (CHGS Entertainment)
Bleksem feat. DJ Cleo - How Low Can You Go [South Africa] (Will of Steel)
Sunny Boy - Balance [Namibia] (Mshasho Productions)
Ishmael - Roba Leka [South Africa] (Ghetto Ruff)
DJ Call Me - Marry Me [South Africa] (Essential Media)
Liquideep – Alone [South Africa] (Universal)
Crazy White Boy – Alpha [South Africa] (Soul Candi)
Gladys Knight – 1st to Say Goodbye (DJ Micks’ Culoe de Song style remix) [South Africa] (Baainar Records)
Fally Ipupa - [DR Congo] (Obouo Productions)

More Mzansi house and kwaito favourites:
DJ Sbu - Vuvuzela Bafana (TS)
Arthur - Haai Bo (999)
DJ Mujava - Township Funk (Warp Records)
DJ Sumthyn Black feat. Ntsiki Mazwai – Wena (Out Here Records)
Bongo Maffin - Re Boela Back To (Reverse) (Universal)
Zola - Ghetto Fabulous (house remix) (Ghetto Ruff)
Skomplazi - Zulu Love Letter (Ghetto Ruff)
Big Nuz - Newlands West (Afrotainment)
Pitch Black Afro - Zonke Bonke (Ghetto Ruff)
Jozi - Da One (Hiyo Le) (Ghetto Ruff)

You can stream all this right now on the Radio Wave Jukebox archive – just select Friday Ripple on the Jukebox programme list, and click the show titled 18.02.2011.

Further listening
if you’re enjoying this week’s selection, why not dig further back into our archive for more southern African sounds? We’ve got more than 12 months’ worth of shows available for streaming. You might be particularly interested in these two shows from 2010, still available:

26.02.2010: the inside story of kwaito empire Ghetto Ruff Records, featuring exclusive interviews with Lance Stehr (Ghetto Ruff CEO) and Ishmael.

21.5.2010: celebrating the release of Europe’s first South African house compilation.