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Motions of Soul with Red Robyn

The electronic escapade Red Robyn sends you on is everlasting. She accompanies the synthesis with heartfelt relative lyricism that’s transported through her soothing soul and glowing vocal tones her voice creates, making everything she touches pure Ruby. Her ruby glimmer radiates evermore with the release of her debut music video, “The Pits”. Growing up in…

Rave & Resistance – Inside South African 90s club culture

Directed by Zandi Tisani, Rave & Resistance – The birth of club culture in 90s Johannesburg, opens with the following lines “In South Africa, there is no single story. There’s no single narrative. Everything is loaded and charged.” Brooding. But true. Narrated by Lakuti, Oskido, Bob Mabena, Vinny Da Vinci, DJ Christos, Trompies, G-Force and…

Support your local ‘Weed Dealer’

“It all started at 17 Just trying to fit in the scene All my friends are gone I’m still trying to be someone” I’ve always thought that being in a band must be addictive. Once the bug bites, it seems impossible for musicians to stop getting together to try and make some magic together. Only…

The enigma that is your dad – D2Dyourdad

Going through lifetimes, and lifetimes our cosmos continues to develop anchors that ensure society with guidance, compassion and certitude to lead us into the compendium of generations that have past and are yet to come. Describing himself as an enigma, D2Dyourdad might just be one of the anchors of this generation as he composes his…

Behind Hip Naughtic Sean’s beats and new single

Did you know you can use hypnosis to raise your vibration? With that being said what does Hip Naughtic Sean raise with his vibrations? You could say the energy at dusty bashes in Alex and other townships, festivals like Back to the City, or maybe the knock of his 808s. What I’m certain of is…

Gyre Comes out of Quarantine with iindirhe

It’s intriguing when someone remakes their own song. Why do they want to retread that old ground? Is there a memory of a bread crumb left behind that could lead down a new path? Or is there someone new to share the journey and re-explore with? With Gyre’s remake of “Quarantine” which features iindirhe, it’s…

ASAP Shembe & Fireman give the township narrative a voice

Long-time friends and collaborators ASAP Shembe and Fireman_r5 met more than 10 years ago in Vosloorus in the East Rand when ASAP Shembe moved there in 2006 and they both connected over a shared loved of hip hop and creating music. Both were surrounded by music at a young age, in ASAP Shembe’s case, it…

Filip Johnson- Glam Pop Skies

If you imagine international pop music as a landscape, you may well envision an idealised California – sunny skies, palm trees swaying in the wind, the warm glow of Coachella at night. What you may not immediately picture is Sweden, a country which for long stretches of the year is buried under the kind of…

Omar Morto puts nostalgia and emotion into his music

Cape Town-based producer and co-founder of the label Capeclub, Andriques Petersen, better known as Omar Morto, started his musical journey jamming with friends which grew into a band. Thanks to different tastes and ideas in the group, as well as an increasing interest in dance music-influenced metalcore bands such as Enter Shikari, Attack Attack! and…