Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
Raja Ram announced as Vortex Easter 2015 Headliner Raja RamΒ has been announced Β as the headliner artist for Vortex Easter 2015. Many regard Raja Ram as the Godfather of Psychedelic Trance – the effervescent and lovable ringmasterΒ Β has neverΒ 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… Itβs a brisk but sunny winter afternoon, Iβm about to have a sit down with Harrison Crump and the man waving at me from the other side of the fountain couldnβt 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 βSay the Wordβ feat. Robert Owens on June 11th, with remixes from Riva […]
βSouth 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.βΒ Glenn Underground. Wow! No way! You lie! This? Thereβs 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’sΒ Undercover andΒ Triple […]
