BubblegumClub is proud to announce that today, South African multidisciplinary artist Muzi’s fifth studio album uMUZI is officially released through Fool’s Gold. This autobiographical collection explores Muzi’s personal universe and the journey that shaped it. The artist’s musical odyssey began amidst the rolling hills and coastal plains of Empangeni, a township just 140 kilometres north…
One for us All my niggas in the whole wide world Made this song to make it y’all’s turn For us, this sh*t is for us All my niggas let whole world know Play this song and sing it on your terms For us, this sh*t is for us All my niggas got the whole…
A sonic dive into funk, 80’s South African Bubblegum pop with a mixture of kwaito and contemporary electro-dance music is the best way to describe Interblaktic, the third album from Muzi. The triumphant and bold offering from Mzansi’s golden child of electronic music follows the MAMA EP that was released this time last year. Muzi’s…
Muzi, aka The Zulu Skywalker, opens “Come Duze”, the fourth video from his upcoming album with the phrase “Nhlangano i matimba” on screen and shots of a scenic landscape surrounding traditional dancers. An ode to the vast beauty and existence of the land that is Limpopo — all in the span of a three-minute and…
On a Sunday evening in March 2020, a national address was broadcast across the country that shifted the way in which we celebrated, worked and interacted, completely. That Sunday evening plays vividly in the minds of South Africans as we reflect on it some 18 months later. That single moment ushered in a new phase…
South Africa’s music landscape has historically been controlled by four major labels these being SONY, Universal, Gallo and Warner Music. It is only from the late 2000s and onwards where small independent labels have emerged. The Recording Industry of South Africa (RiSA) estimates that there are approximately 1 400 independent labels that currently exist (although…
When we look back on the 2010’s as a period in South African music history, I believe that Muzi is a name that is going to come up in countless conversations, articles and lists. While many of you will know Muzi from his breakout 2018 album, Afrovision, he spent most of the last decade steadily…
Consider Enter the Woods a grand showcase of our latest collaborative work and partnerships, a show off of our newest JägerMusic acts and a fresh take on who we are and how we position ourselves in the industry – Bea Theron, Experiential Marketing Manager On the 1st of June 2019, Jägermeister SA hosted their 5th…
A conceptual EP, Muzi’s ‘Stimela SeGolide’, train of gold in Zulu, chronicles the disruption to black families that migration in search of work causes. “It’s a play of people having to take the train to go and make money. It’s paying homage to Hugh Masekela and the song Stimela that he made ‘cause it was…
Muzi is the future and the future is now. With the release of Afrovision, Muzi, who has been producing bangers for a minute now, has gone from being an “act to watch” for those in the know locally and overseas to an absolute sensation both at home and abroad. A couple of years back, on…
If you’re a South African musician, there’s quite a bit that you can learn from Muzi. The charismatic producer from Empangeni seems to have one of the most level heads out of anyone I’ve met in the music industry, although he claims he’s “still figuring things out”. So there’s the first thing you can learn…
