Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
Garlic Brown emcee has a new a EP Forward The SwordΒ β Β that wasΒ inspired by a book detailing the principals of Rastafari. Whatever your viewpoints on religion and belief, the offering looks set to follow what weβve come to know him for β a lyricist of the upmost calibre, frightfully creative and fiercely unique. His enduring […]
Lange is a bonafide Euro Prog Trance heavyweight. Having bestrode the industry for well over a decade now, releasing global floor fillers and chart-scorchers alike, he’s a name all devotees of Prog Trance are familiar with. His arrival on our shores in a few days time is definitely something to look forward to. Jayson caught […]
Martin Stimming is a practitioner of enigmatic, velvety electronic dance music. Having maintained the buzz generated by his initial releases, the German born producer was the recipient of the Best Newcomer Award at the Ibiza DJ Awards in 2010, he’s since gone on to thrill crowds worldwide and release two critically acclaimed albums. Now he’s […]
βPreparing for a battle is on another level. You spend hours, weeks even months trying to perfect a six minute routine.β The realm of competitive DJ-ing is a blitz of global fanfare, multifarious identities and inimitable turntable skills. Moreover, it’s one where you either make your mark emphatically or suffer being forgotten quicker than breakfast. […]
βI found it refreshing to engage in a culture that was all about the music.β One Track Mike is at once responsible for both irresistibly rhythmic, limb-numbing dance sets and for organizing the events where such entertainment can be found. Mike Kennedy (real name) is bent on demolishing the perceived boundaries of his art, circumventing […]
βI often feel like people talk more about the style of music that the band is playing versus the actual style of the band.β Formed in the mid-nineties, Berlin ensemble Jazzanova have since been delivering their diverse amalgam of electronic and traditional Jazz music. One of the spearheads of the Nu-Jazz genre in the late […]
For one not born anywhere remotely close to South Africa’s shores, Akio Kawahito aka DJ ID has undoubtedly left an indelible impression on this country’s Hip Hop scene. A consummate, world renowned DJ and pioneering entrepreneur, he’s set his vision for SA Hip Hop loose and has been watching it spread like wildfire ever since. […]
We’ve all been there. Mystified and crestfallen when an unexpected break-up shatters our romantic musings, causing the shards to revolve hazardously in our torsos. Ah yes, the feeling is universal. It’s that very same wellspring of despair which has spawned countless songs of the painfully sentimental variety. Enter 19 year old singer/songwriter Jimmy Nevis. The […]
Marathon live sets designed to leave your toes rattling in your boots? Check. Brain-bashing beats rugged enough to usher in the apocalypse’s after party? Roger that. A plethora of diverse sounds brimming with more than sufficient vibrancy to stage a long overdue resurrection. As if you even had to ask. Cape Town breakbeat duo Enough […]
The tradition of the emergent South African pop songstress is a coiled trail leaden with sign posts bearing the names of countless wannabes, should’ve beens and wash-outs peppered with the occasional break out act. Indeed, luminaries such as Miriam Mkeba and Brenda Fassie have each walked the oily tightrope of Diva-dom to varying degrees of […]
