Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
NOIR talks techno and the life of a global DJ Having chatted to so many artists and DJs over the years, some interviews just click more than others and electronic dance music stalwart, NOIR, is certainly one of those that resonate. In many ways, NOIR personifies what the real global electronic music scene is all […]
DJ Tristan talks psytrance life ahead of Origin 2020 DJ Tristan is back!!! Finally… DJ Tristan must be the most requested artist by Origin Festival fans in South Africa, hands down. This legend of the global psytrance scene has seen it all and done it all and is a firm favourite, not only in South […]
Trenton Birch talks Music, education and cannabis Trenton Birch has just released his new album, Unity in Diversity, with his reggae-infused Afro-beat band, Trenton and Free Radical. It’s their second full length album and it has been a long time in the making. Trenton is a music man through and through. From heading up one […]
Booka Shade interviewed ahead of first SA tour Legendary German house duo, Booka Shade, will do a three-stop tour of South Africa for the first time in their illustrious career. Even before Booka Shade was formed, Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier were making music under the name Planet Claire in the early 90s. Founders of […]
Bazique Festival – what’s all the fuss? If you’re a typical Capetonian – or is that just a typical human being? – you may view the Bazique Festival with slight hesitation, or caution, not knowing exactly what it’s all about and if you’ll ‘fit in.’ I know I did last year for the inaugural event. […]
Jimpster chats ahead of Bazique Festival 2019 Jimpster headlines Bazique Festival this year alongside DJ Tennis, Marvin & Guy, James Monro, Tinlicker, Emok, Nanoplex, Ali B and The Head Gardner. Add to that a wholesome list of many of South Africa’s finest DJs and producers and it’s safe to say the music will take care […]
10 ‘Firsts’ for James Monro Bazique Fest Headliner + Free tickets up for grabs “It will be fat, hypnotic and just a little bit wonky” – the words of James Monro Bazique festival headliner, the last time we interviewed him on IDM Mag. You can read that in-depth chat I had with James here. It […]
15 years of Origin Festival South Africa in pictures 15 years in the making and it is fair to say that Origin Festival has become South Africa’s flagship psychedelic event. This psychedelic circus boasts everything from massive lineups of international and local headliners, a genuine alternative dancefloor that equals the mainstage in the high standard […]
Origin Festival 2019 lineup times announced Origin Festival 2019 is South Africa’s premier psychedelic festival and from the 1st – 3rd February it is where you find 5,000+ psychedelic party people revelling in the sun as they soak up the beats on both the Origin floor (psytrance) and Beats floor (techno, house, eclectic beats). Anybody […]
Back to your Nature with Mandala ahead of Origin 2019 Nano label artist, Mandala is set to perform for the first time at Origin Festival 2019 and his timing could not be better. In November he released his debut album, Back To Your Nature, packed with nine blistering psytrance stompers, seven of which are solo […]
