'By way of an introduction this mixtape (kazet) outlines the premise for all future kazets. Mostly they are songs about songs having meaning. A meta-mix, to be a dick about it. If this seem vague then, yes, it is. So is the nature of an introduction. How else to begin but with The Mahotella Queens, the group who have perhaps experienced the most success nationally and internationally out of any all-female South African ensemble. I am indebted to their song, Kazet, for this site’s title. The Zulu pronunciation of the word falls somewhere between Cassette and Gazette – suggesting the ability of music to transmit messages, just as well as newspapers. The refrain ‘This is our kind of rhythm in Africa, we send our messages through music’ speaks eloquently to the theme of this mix, and this site, overall'..... http://www.thekazet.net/something-that-means-something/
