Shaka Bundu (1994) is the debut full-length from South African house sensation Penny Penny. His story is the stuff of the Bildungsroman: the youngest of 68 children, he found himself flung into poverty, zipping between odd-jobs before, in the wake of the dissolution of apartheid, finally releasing one of the most country�s most feted house albums in his mid-Thirties (he�s now an African National Congress politician, naturally). Despite featuring vocals sung in the marginalised Xitsgona language, Shaka Bundu was a major hit, shifting over a quarter of a million copies in the country. Musically, Shaka Bundu offers good-time house at a 100bpm crawl � think Inner City with some added springbok flavour. Strung together on Atari, Korg M1 synthesiser and reel-to-reel tape over the course of a week, it�s got a pleasantly rough feel, but Penny and his producer Joe Shirimani keep things sufficiently hooky and beefy to impress. Really corking stuff, in short. ATFA�s edition will arrive in November