{"id":1987,"date":"2009-06-10T08:35:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T13:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2015-01-07T13:59:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:59:14","slug":"bots-burners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=1987","title":{"rendered":"Bots Burners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ruffriddims.blogspot.com\/\">Ruff Riddims<\/a> (now <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ruffriddims\">tweeting<\/a>) have been putting in work lately. Now that the studio is up and running, they&#8217;ve been grinding out some promising stuff &#8212; a mix of kwaito and kwasa-kwasa, hip-hop and reggae &#8212; and they&#8217;re starting to reach out, nationally and internationally, to share their work with the wider world. <\/p>\n<p>Check these two recent videos, one by riddim-rider Tebza, the other by young up-and-comer Skeat, who bubbles over a classic sounding (i.e., mid-90s, v housey) kwaito track. Nice vids too!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"300\" height=\"220\" ><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v\/96570165828\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v\/96570165828\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\"><\/embed><\/object> <object width=\"300\" height=\"220\" ><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v\/79184545828\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v\/79184545828\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/ruffriddims.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/masuper-star-in-studio-album-coming.html\">MaSuper Star<\/a> stuff &#8212; wow, wait til you hear that! Fruityloopy beats, loose acoustic guitars, tight joyous vox. RUFF RIDDIMS, nuff said. Gwaan, Bots bredren&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana&#8217;s Ruff Riddims (now tweeting) have been putting in work lately. Now that the studio is up and running, they&#8217;ve been grinding out some promising stuff &#8212; a mix of kwaito and kwasa-kwasa, hip-hop and reggae &#8212; and they&#8217;re starting to reach out, nationally and internationally, to share their work with the wider world. Check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[413,270,404,415,408,407],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-africa","tag-botswana","tag-hip-hop","tag-kwaito","tag-reggae","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}