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Randall's One Song - Remember, By Tman Express, xMellow & Sleazy · Drive with John Perlman

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  Speaker 1: Randall's one song on 702 Drive with John Perlman.
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  Speaker 2: 702 Drive with John Perlman.
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  Speaker 3: Much simpler I would have thought to put a band
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  Speaker 3: together or a musical collaboration than actually having to do
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  Speaker 3: all the negotiating around a political party. A successful collaboration,
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  Speaker 3: Randall Abrams. is very much you want to share with
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  Speaker 3: us what you're going to share with us today. Tell
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  Speaker 3: us about it before we enjoy the music. Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, John. Well, let's be honest. There are some
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  Speaker 1: collaborations that have gone very, very wrong. We could spend
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  Speaker 1: the whole afternoon speaking about that. This track is relatively new,
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  Speaker 1: came out in May this year. It's by T-Man Express
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  Speaker 1: and Mellow and Sleazy. It's called Remember. It is their
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  Speaker 1: second number one on the official SA singles charts after
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  Speaker 1: Mnandi Lento, which was in 2023. And I think that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people initially when Amapiano came out,
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  Speaker 1: there was kind of a big audience that went after
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  Speaker 1: it and kind of others were a bit more reticent.
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  Speaker 1: But like with most music genres, they do develop. And
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  Speaker 1: this track, as I say, it's not kind of pure
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  Speaker 1: what I would call dance music, right? Something that you're
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  Speaker 1: going to play at a party. It's actually quite an
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  Speaker 1: introspective track. And, you know, there's lots of, And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hooks in both Isizulu and English, lots of percussion. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a more reflective track. And that's the reason that
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  Speaker 1: I chose it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's take a listen to that. Then we'll come
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  Speaker 3: back and talk about the music in particular. But I've
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  Speaker 3: got a few Amapiano questions as well, which I'm looking
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  Speaker 3: forward to. to getting Randall's response to. In the meanwhile, though,
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  Speaker 3: let's enjoy this. It is very, very popular indeed. T-Man
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  Speaker 3: Express and Mellow and Sleazy. It's called Remember. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I try to let go of memories keeping me in
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  Speaker 2: my sidestep zone. If only I could be careful of
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  Speaker 2: mindless flows and try not to remember. I try to
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  Speaker 2: let go of memories keeping me in my sidestep zone.
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  Speaker 2: If only I could be careful of mindless flows and
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  Speaker 2: try not to remember. Let's dance, let's dance, let's dance.
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  Speaker 3: Let's dance.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for watching!
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, nice stuff. Remember by T-Man Express, Mello and Sleazley.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Randall, Amapiano, a broad question before we come
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  Speaker 3: back to this collaboration and their track. And this is
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  Speaker 3: interesting for me. Is Amapiano evolving? Is it taking new
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  Speaker 3: shapes as time passes and music goes out and the
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  Speaker 3: reaction comes back?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, John.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about piano, right, it started
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  Speaker 1: in kind of the mid-2010s. It was kind of restricted
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  Speaker 1: to Gauteng, to places like Soweto, Alex, Foslouris, right? Then
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  Speaker 1: you had, you know, big crossover hits, DJ Marparisa and
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  Speaker 1: Capsa de Small. And that was, you know, towards the
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  Speaker 1: end of, you know, around the COVID times. Then, of course,
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  Speaker 1: the influence of internationally acclaimed artists like Uncle Waffles and Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: So I think, yes, there's certainly a lot of evolution happening.
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  Speaker 1: And this track is a lot more down-tempo. But remember
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  Speaker 1: that Ama Piano also has lots of influences, everything from
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  Speaker 1: lounge music to jazz to quieto to deep house.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And in terms of this particular track, why does it work?
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  Speaker 1: I actually think it works because, you know, there's actually
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  Speaker 1: a lot of deep lyrical content, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 1: speaking about relationships and, you know, how things are between
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  Speaker 1: people in relationships. And it's quite a, it's a very
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  Speaker 1: melodic track, right? It could work in. pretty much any
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  Speaker 1: setting you know if you were to take this and
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  Speaker 1: you know turn it into kind of a real down
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  Speaker 1: tempo song it could work and that's kind of how
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  Speaker 1: things evolve you know the music becomes not just specific
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  Speaker 1: to its own genre but it can you know it
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  Speaker 1: can be seen and heard by be seen in different
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  Speaker 1: genres and heard by lots of different people not just
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  Speaker 1: its own primary audience.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, very interesting track indeed. Thank you, Randall Abrams, here
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  Speaker 3: with us with Randall's one song. We figured, even though
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  Speaker 3: we're in the midst of the election, we definitely need
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  Speaker 3: some music. And speaking of music, a song, A Book
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  Speaker 3: and a Dish, still coming up at 20 to 6.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you more about the guest shortly.