House of Unity Summer Day Party 06/09/2025

Just a perfect encapsulation of international Afro-diasporic dialogue expressed through wonderful, wild partying. House music – with all its endlessly complex roots – reached South Africa, incubated for years, eventually becoming the bass heavy amapiano, which in turn caught on in Nigeria and Ghana, whose own diaspora spread it worldwide including to Britain, where it struck a chord with crowds who needed an update on the lineage of UK garage and UK funky. So here is UK funky veteran DJ Supa D playing those distinctive South African tones, rhythms and dynamics to a multicultural crowd in bass-loving Bristol, with whistles, horns, none-more-English rave MC chat, and it feels both like the most natural thing in the world and like a mind-boggling cultural collision.