In the summer of 2010, just before the World Cup, Honest Jon’s unleashed a bolt from the blue: Shangaan Electro, a startling compilation of jacking dance music from the South African countryside. Heartfelt family and spiritual matters set at a breakneck 180 bpm to cheap samplers by local producer Nozinja, aka Dog. In-your-face, candid and berserk — with sweet vocals riding bareback the processed progeny of marimba, drums, guitar… fluorescent orange wigs, nutty dancing… and no bass at all. A slap in the face and a jab in the bum of solemn, trend-driven dance music, Shangaan Electro is resplendently vivid and full-colour, shot through with lightning-fast multi-rhythms, and dementedly, dazzlingly animated. A few years ago, Honest Jon’s offered up a set of homages — entitled Lagos Shake — to the great Afrobeat architect Tony Allen, using his own recordings and compositions as its starting point. Now, in a captivating series of singles running throughout last year and into 2012, the Shangaan Electro tracks have be