Who are you and what's your blog called?

Matt Temple. I run ElectricJive with three others: Chris Albertyn, Siemon Allen and Nick Lotay.

Where are you based?

I'm in the UK with Nick while Chris is in South Africa and Siemon is in the US.

Describe your blog in a sentence.

Reclaiming South Africa's out-of-print musical past album by album

How long have your blog been going?

Three years come July.

What music do you write about?

Mostly black urban music recorded in South Africa between 1960 – 80.

Why should people visit your blog?

Journey with us to recover South Africa's musical past! The extraordinary landscape of South African jazz and modern music is frequently mapped out by reference to a few well-known landmarks: the glorious township swing and hot jive of the 50s; the fame and misfortune of the modern jazz exiles of the 60s, and their energising presence in Europe; the towering transnational figures of Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim. For the jazz musicians of South Africa who did not by chance or choice fall into one of these categories, the long silence of history has only intermittently been broken, and the legacy of past iniquities has served to consign many names on South Africa's long roster of jazz giants to an undeserved obscurity. ElectricJive recovers lost outposts and opens space for a deeper, richer discourse and remembering.

What's your top song right now?

Sembe Sembe Boudou by Le Super Borgou de Parakou (from Analog Africa's Bariba Sound)

What's your favourite music blog aside from your own?

World Service, super rare and archival recordings liberated from an enthusiastic collector's shelf.