Which Era of Dance Music Are You? · Result

Amapiano and Afro House, 2019 to now

Slow, wide and patient, and everywhere before anyone noticed it travel.

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You are patient in a way that is social rather than solitary, you like a track that takes its time, and you are comfortable with something being new and popular at once. That is a rare and healthy combination. Amapiano came out of the townships around Pretoria and Johannesburg, settling by around 2019 into a slow tempo, long stretches of space and the log drum bassline that became its signature. You understand that waiting is part of the pleasure.

You tend to go out with friends and settle in, happy to let a groove build for three minutes before the bassline arrives. You like day parties, warm rooms and floors where people dance together rather than face the booth. People like you are usually the ones who learned the dance from a clip, then taught it to everyone else on the floor by the end of the night.

Your strength

You can wait three minutes for a bassline and make everyone wait with you.

Your blind spot

A sound spread through short clips gets judged by them, and the seven minutes that earn the drop get skipped.

Key takeaways

  • You are patient and social at the same time, which is rare.
  • Give a track its full seven minutes, not just the clip.
  • South African producers made this. Know whose music it is.

Rooms to try in Seoul

  • Soap, Itaewon: The Seoul basement most likely to give amapiano a full night rather than a guest slot, to a floor that came for it.
  • Cakeshop, Itaewon: It booked the South African sound early for Seoul, and the system carries a log drum properly.
  • Modeci, Itaewon: A house room where the Afro house lineage sits naturally next to what it grew out of.

Rooms to try around the world

  • Konka, Soweto: The room the movement built for itself, where the records play to the people who made the dances for them.
  • Nowadays, New York: A room that gives Afro house long sessions on a system that does the low end justice, to a crowd that stays.
  • Toronto, a Sunday Afro house day party, Toronto: The city's African diaspora runs these in daylight, and the tempo suits an afternoon better than most house does.

Your nearest types

Chicago House, 1984 to 1987Simple machines, no permission, records out in two weeks.Hardcore and Jungle, 1992 to 1994Faster, heavier, and onto the next thing in six weeks. Good.

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