Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
Vini Vici say, ‘Life is a Remix – Life is a Tribe.’ When you name your debut album ‘Future Classics’ you’d best be sure you can live up to such a bold statement, but the duo known as Vini Vici needn’t have worried. They clearly knew what they had created and where they wanted to go. If […]
Atomizers asked ‘Is There a Future?’ before 2020 changed our lives [interview] Portuguese psytrance duo, Atomizers, have a brand-new album, just released on Iboga Records. Considering the album title, the album artwork and the timing of the release one would assume that ‘Is There a Future?’ was a direct response to the crazy, unerring 2020 in which we’ve all found ourselves wondering what the future […]
Watch: Distant Dancefloors, looks at the effect of lockdown on DJ/Producers Distant Dancefloors is a 30-minute documentary that looks at the impact Covid-19 has had on the global electronic music scene. The documentary features Blond:ish, Eats Everything, Honey Dijon, Luciano, Rebuke and Fatboy Slim (briefly) who all give their opinions of the lockdown, how they have been coping, how they […]
Jazzuelle – Renegade of Deep-Tech gone Rogue [Interview] Hands down one of my favourite underground electronic producers, Jazzuelle, is back with his third album, Rogue, and his first to be released on a South African label. Stay True Sounds is an imprint started by Kid Fonque, one of South Africa’s most respected house DJs […]
Roland MC-707 Groovebox reviewed The Roland MC-707 Groovebox was included with the DJ-202 and DJ-505 DJ Controllers, supplied by Paul Bothner Music, for us to play around with just before the dreaded lockdown took place in South Africa. All of the above are part of Roland’s DJ/Producer performance range known as the AIRA series. […]
Roland DJ-202 DJ Controller with built-in drum sequencer The Roland DJ-202 is an entry-level DJ controller from a legendary brand that has had an immense influence on dance music. The original Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer produced in the early 80’s, its successor, the TR-909 plus the TB-303 Bass Line all had fairly short production runs, […]
Eitan Reiter talks Out of Orbit, his latest psytrance project Out of Orbit is the new psytrance project by accomplished electronic musician, Eitan Reiter, also one half of the now-defunct legendary trance duo, LOUD. Eitan is a prolific producer, who, beyond his LOUD partnership, has produced an impressive discography of techno, acid and downtempo music […]
Bazique 2020 – A first-timer’s guide Bazique 2020 takes place this coming weekend. This unique event is now in its third year and both 2018 & 2019 had a different charm about them. In 2018 none of us knew what to expect. We did know it was going to be different and we did know […]
Bazique and the collaborators Bazique and the collaborators – it sounds like a Western. You need to read it in your best ‘Billy the Kid’ voice as done in the movie, Young Guns. ‘Collaborators are you ready???’ Corny, I know, but if you knew the visionary behind Bazique Festival, Nick Ladd, you’d know that corny […]
Artiphon Orba is an intuitive handheld music making orb Artiphon Orba is a compact synthesizer, looper and midi controller in an incredibly unique form factor. In essence, Artiphon Orba was designed to inspire musicians and enthusiasts with a fun, new ways of playing music. The shape seems rather odd at first, almost like a miniature […]
