Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
Jus Nativ… a quiet chap with a loud talent It feels good to hear people appreciate your work. That’s all a producer wants.” Jus Nativ is the type of unassuming bloke to quietly go about his business with minimal razzmatazz. Well that’s pretty much how it had panned out till late last year […]
Nora en Pure Interview – SA born Swiss raised I have a lot of respect for South African dance music artists like Goldfish and Black Coffee – they’re strongly representing our country!” Nora en Pure is a South African born, Swiss raised DJ/producer who recently came home for a three city tour over Easter weekend. […]
15 Things you never knew about AVALON Leon AVALON is a firm favourite in South Africa, someone that we could almost call one of us locals. I have load of new tunes and I am gonna tune you!!! The okes be jolling!” It may be that his signature sound resonates with the fullon vibes of […]
Easter Vortex – Come step into a Parallel Universe These moments are what epitomises what Easter Vortex is all about. Beautiful family vibes with our psy family.” Enter our Easter Vortex 2016 Ultimate Festival Prize competion It’s that time of year again when all Capetonian psytrance fans head to the hills for 3 days of […]
The Social Media Guide to being a DJ Being a DJ these days means more than mixing two tracks together and making people dance. Being a DJ, just like any musician, singer or band in the 21st century requires one to be personable and in touch with their fans. Or at least make it […]
Leave No Trace Leave No Trace should become a standard catchphrase used when talking about psytrance parties. In fact it should be embedded in our ethos, in our subconscious before we even leave to go to a party. Are our egos too big to bend down and pick something up and throw it in the […]
Soulistic Music vs. Black Coffee What we can learn from the Soulistic Music Artist debate Something is going on at Soulistic Music. You may have seen the articles, RT’d the tweets and debated about it in the comment sections. While industry professionals, the media and the folks at Red Bull were recently celebrating 10 years […]
Cara Frew – Show jumper, model, singer, songwriter, artist People are always going to judge others on their appearance; all this does for me is give me motivation to continue to pleasantly surprise everyone who has a preconceived idea of me.” Cara Frew gets around. But not in the way that this may sound. She gets […]
Scratch Lab DJ Crew, Beat Bangaz talk music, DJ & Training The Scratch Lab DJ Training facility is run by three established and season professional DJs from Cape Town collectively known as Beat Bangaz. DJ Ready D is a 4 times South African DMC Championship winner, founder of the legendary 90’s Prophets of The […]
Psytrance Culture and Stepping out of your comfort zone Psytrance culture globally, while having many obvious similarities, also differs from city to city, country to country. …the best thing to do as a DJ is to simply play what you love, play with conviction, and spread your energy; we spin tunes and give people […]
