Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
<House> Lulo Café is back! His growth from DJ and compiler to full-fledged producer has been a pleasure to behold. His latest album Soul Africa was definitely a long time coming but well worth the wait. For anyone who’s followed Lulo Café’s musical journey they’ll be surprised to hear that Soul Africa is a lot […]
<House> “Everyone forgot about the records themselves and was worried about the mixing.” That one line by Theo Parish sums up what Kid Fonque and his latest studio album, Kid Fonque and Friends is all about. Kid Fonque calls on 19 of the musical greats to lend their musical touch to this stellar twelve-track album. […]
<Tech House> Deep and broody. These are the feelings that keep resurfacing each time I load up Ghetto Tech, Crazy White Boy’s 11 track follow up to 2012’s debut, Zoma. I wonder if they’re aware that ghettotech is a form of club music originating in Detroit? A sort of mashup between Chicago ghetto house and […]
<R n B / House / Hip Hop> The debut album from Cape Town’s newest star, Mathew Gold, is easily one of the most anticipated albums of 2013. With the likes of Ben Peters and Crazy White Boy on production, Mathew set the expectation levels spectacularly high for the play button. The Rush starts off with a smooth […]
<Electronic Dance> The album promo for GoodLuck’s new offering – Creature of the Night – was handed over with the caveat that they’ve tried to do something different to their debut offering . Opener, and title track, Creatures of the Night, has radio hit single written all over it. It’s a simple little pop ditty; […]
<House> If this is where the future of South African house music lies, then we can only be destined for greatness. Much like its title Surreal Selections: Volume 1 offers a stellar collection of some of Da Capo and Punk’s best works. The album begins with Da Capo’s superb remix of SK 95’s Leaking Waters, […]
<electro/drum ‘n’ bass> Thanks to a good use of 21st bleeb machines, Julian Label (aka MK Ultra) has managed to breathe new magic into tired old DnB. The Cape Town based beat spinner is a rising star from SA label On A Break Records. The method he employs is quite simple: set the audience on […]
<House> Listening to Three Second Memory on a private Soundcloud link, prior to release, I get an immediate sense of déjà vu; partly taking me back to the first time I heard these songs at their studio when I was gobsmacked at just how sleazily funky some of them are, and partly because it takes […]
<Psychedelic World Music> The latest release by Simon Rossford’s [and Raja Ram] Shpongle is deliriously layered. Sound is zoomed in on, blown up into epic expanses. Opener Brain in a Fish Tank sets the scene for the audio movie that is Museum of Consciousness – consciously or not, the track references City of Lost Children […]
