Bringing out an incredibly unique and different style to a brand of electronic music, ‘Ilanga’ combines a bit of afrobeat, dancehall, and experimental left-field styles to an anthem of a dance piece that’s bound to keep you in the groove and have you jumping from wall to wall. It’s a pulsating and vigorous beat that builds with a bounce and energy that’s constant and perennial in both the speed and emotion it’s able to evoke. An album that in itself consists of reworks, remaps, and a wholly new set of flips to the base beat, ‘Ilanga’ transforms itself across each piece into something new for the listener to explore.
There’s a riveting energy to the record, a kind of unwavering bounce that has you almost entirely drowning out in the rave like sounds that keep crashing and flowing in easy flow. The song’s innate ability to express so much purity in its message, a loveable togetherness that resonates powerfully with the listener but manages to still bring out a bounce and dance worthy beat to keep you moving from beat to beat and drop to drop.
It’s a flourish of a tune that any dancehall listener will find solace in.