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Documentary: Bellville, Rock City

Not too many Afrikaans Rock posts around here but this is one is definitely worth mention. Bellville, Rock City is a DVD/CD/Print project that documents pieces of the life and music of some of South Africa’s most phenomenally influential Afrikaans Rock bands Fokofpolisiekar, Springbok Nude Girls, Foto na

The Rap Payload Post

I’ve come across a lot of good Rap lately. It’s been a while since, so this new stuff is definitely welcome. I didn’t want to do a whole bunch of individual posts and I’ve mentioned some of this before so I thought I would just put it all into

3 Must Get Funked - 15th November @ Fiction

Venue: Fiction, Long Street Date: 15 November 08 Change: R20 if you pimpin, R40 if you from 2008. Behold, the next chapter of 3 Must Get Funked. Selekta Soul, Klinikal and Nastie.ed gon be slappin that cross-bred, genre unspecific Afro-funked, Old Skool, Soul-Hop, Electro Breaks ass, and pouring

Vampisol goes to AFRICA

Vampisoul is a UK based record re-issue company that specialises in digging & restoring what they believe to be some of the rarest and finest vintage Funk, Boogaloo, Highlife, Afrobeat, Highlife from around the world. Aside from North & South America there’s also Africa which is one of

Hot Chip Remixes

It seems Hot Chip are trying to align themselves by remixing some classics. So far I’ve come across 3 in the last week, or so, of Roots Manuva, Skream and The Pharcyde. The Pharcyde - Passin’ Me By (Hot Chip Remix)Strange psychedelic downtempo with church organs.

New 3000 A.D. Line up at Fiction

African Dope have been doing a fine job of recruiting some progressive electronic DJ’s and producers to play their 3000 A.D. Wednesday nights at Fiction, this is the latest line up for Wednesday 12 November: dj low The Fiction heavyweight. Ivan has played countless Cape Town sets for the

Teba Shumba

Funafuji tipped me off about this guy called Teba Shumba, a Raggamuffin artist who performed alongside her set at the 3000 A.D. Dope night at Fiction. Teba is a Raggamuffin artist who started out as part of a Kwaito group called Skeem, they won the South African Music

Video: Unit R - It’s All About

Found this recently published music video from Unit R over at the One Small Seed Network. It was filmed at the Kimberly Hotel on the corner of Buitnetkant and Roeland Street. Check it out, there’s quite a few music videos for Goldfish, Lark, Zebra & Giraffe and others. You’ll

Richard the Third’s Bi-Polar Molecule Mix

South African Electro DJ Richard the Third who’s been making serious waves lately just posted up his energetic Bi-Polar Molecule mix on ListenUp.za.net. It’s a nice short one weighing in at around 27 Mb. The Third draws his influence from the likes of Diplo, Soulwax and Simian Mobile

Sangoma Kids in the Rhino Room

Quite a disturbing heading, but hey, lets get a bit creepy for Halloween. Even though it means absolutely nothing to us down here you should definately check out the Rhino Room on the 31st of October. Sangoma Kids will be a night of voodoo Breaks and Dubstep. Solid

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