Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
Raja Ram announced as Vortex Easter 2015 Headliner Raja Ram has been announced as the headliner artist for Vortex Easter 2015. Many regard Raja Ram as the Godfather of Psychedelic Trance – the effervescent and lovable ringmaster has never visited South Africa to perform so this is indeed a big deal for the psytrance scene. At 74 years […]
Larry Heard has long been one of the most important figures in House music. A native of Chicago and a lifelong musician, he got his start making club tracks with Ron Wilson and Robert Owens as a member of Fingers, Inc., a group that drew the blueprints of House music with songs like Mystery of […]
Nathan Kabingesi sits down with house music legend Harrison Crump to chat about music passion, history and his newfound love for South Africa… It’s a brisk but sunny winter afternoon, I’m about to have a sit down with Harrison Crump and the man waving at me from the other side of the fountain couldn’t be […]
Jet Project merges two old-school crate diggers, b-boys, acid-house fanatics, and are one of the few DJ duos left still obsessively mining gold from that mine of feeling called “house”. From their trove of sound extractions, T-Bone and JMX release the single ‘Say the Word’ feat. Robert Owens on June 11th, with remixes from Riva […]
“South African House music (in its current form) has been referred to by a myriad of terms called Afro House, Deep Tribal, Ancestral, however it’s only now in recent years that it has culminated in a hybrid ensemble of indigenous sounds fused with international trends.” Glenn Underground. Wow! No way! You lie! This? There’s no way […]
Label: Items & Things Artist: Darabi & Tim Paris Title: Various Items 2 Genre: Tech House Format: Vinyl & Digital Release date: 16 March2012 Items & Things, the Berlin based label, headed up by Magda, Marc Houle and Troy Pierce has had a storming start to the year with releases such as March Houle’s Undercover and Triple […]
