Black Motion, the countrys most tenacious house act, aren't a band. Theyre not a DJ duo either. They call their music Afro-house, but thats not enough of a description. What Thabo Smol Mabogwane and Kabelo Problem Child Ten83 Koma do is take the drum and thump it, hard. Then they lace it with the sound of the township, gospel, the taxi rank, the Sunday shebeen and the late-night club.
They've turned their tracks into hits in nightclubs, at festivals and in their own invented universe: Friends of Black Motion. Not gigs, but gatherings.
They run their own label, Spirit Motion, and insist the want to be remembered as healers and storytellers.