Various Artists - Saturday Night: South African Disco Pop Hits! 81-87

The 1980s were an epoch of upheaval and rapid change in South Africa. In 'Saturday Night: South African Disco Pop Hits!', Cultures of Soul explores this period of change, and the intermediary forms that filled the gap between mbaqanga and bubblegum. The years when South African musicians and producers wrestled with the incursion of foreign disco and formulated their own style of homegrown disco-pop. Starting from the early '80s, when bands like Varikweru, Black Five and Soundburger essayed local attempts at boogie and jazz-fusion, through experiments like the Madonna-cloned diva Margino, who domesticized the burgeoning Italo-disco and NYC electro sounds, up through the massive breakthrough of Brenda and the Big Dudes, who arrived at the right mix between native and international influences to point the way forward for South African pop.

1) Saturday Night - Varikweru ()
2) You and Me - Margino ()
3) Good Vibes - Hot Soul Singers ()
4) No No Señor - Brenda Fassie ()
5) Let's Get It On - Supa Frika ()
6) Love Action - Brenda Fassie ()
7) Wa Ikgona - The Black Five ()
8) Holiday - Margino ()
9) Ambiguously the Same - Soundburger ()
10) Love Satisfaction - Supa Frika ()