Nastie.ed has been partying up a storm for nearly a decade. His style is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get. With a Set challenge to rock dancefloors by mashing songs from across time, space and genre together, Nastie.ed keeps things interesting and unexpected, piecing together your funk like lego. Watch yo’self!

Spekta’s music collection is vast, including: Breakbeat, Techno, Hip-Hop, Minimal, Dub, Electro, so ready yourself for a whole heap of dubalicious sounds that will have you hugging speakers and wishing you wore your sneakers.
From the big beat head boppers to the Breakbeat floor-breakers, no crowd goes home wondering what might have been as Spekta’s arsenal of beats is as explosive as it is comprehensive. Kit yourself for chaos.

Midnight Men are Pierre Estienne and Dario Silva. The duo met in Cape Town in the Summer of 2006, when both were offered a residency at the now defunct Roosevelt Club. It was here that they realised their mutual love for disco influenced music from the 70’s and 80’s, right through to the new sounds of the now. Expect the unexpected as their sets include names such as Todd Terje, Lindstrom to more recognized artists like The Human League and Hercules and Love Affair. In short the Midnight Men will take you on a journey through their own definition of time and space.

A variety in styles and flavours started putting Fonque on main floors rockin’ a different beat- housy, broken, nujazz, breaks whatever it was you where sure to hear consistency and quality throughout. To sum the Kid up – soulful, jazzy, freestyle, fresh, and always unpredictable…

Fathered by the same lover of beats but born of separate mothers CIRCUSWING is the new project from two of Cape Towns favourite musical purveyors. DJ’s Toby2Shoes and Regan stumbled into a musical duel in the middle of the dusty Karoo in 2007 and in one filthy sidelong glance they began plotting and planning a new approach to dancefloor hooliganism. No genre is out of bounds and every beat is selected for pure dancing lunacy, excessive smiles and general misbehaviour.

To further the underground house sounds in a predominantly commercial club scene, Leighton & Erefaan teamed up to form “Soul Revolution”in 2006. The event features intoxicating back to back performances between Leighton & Erefaan, creatively fusing both the soulful & futuristic elements of House music into a live coherent DJ set, collaborating with Cape Town’s top musicians, vocalists & dancers.

White Gold is a mash-up of Hip Hop, Beats, Downtempo breaks, Funk and live elements. With a keen ear for both the lounge and dance floor, you can catch them spinning most Thursdays at “The Waiting Room”.

The title, PSYCLES (Psyche + Cycle), comes from my belief that the popular trends of each ten year period are constantly being recycled and reintroduced in various forms, most apparently in fashion and music, and that we are at the end of an eighties revival and that the next progression will be a return to the nineties, the period when I began to with what was to become both a passion and a career. I discovered graffiti and rap at the same time. My social consciousness was woken up by pirated cassette tapes and prized purchases of the latest in the audio technological revolution, Compact Discs, all banging out the hooks beats and verses of legendary American Hip Hop crews.

João Orecchia is a multi-faceted musician based in Johannesburg. His is a process- orientated approach, mixing improvisation with loosely pre-composed material, finding joy in “accidents” and “mistakes”. Using a collection of looping devices and effect pedals to create sounds with a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments including guitar, banjo, voice, bass, melodica, toy instruments, theremin and more, he combines layer upon layer of sound, constantly reprocessing and chopping up the sounds he records in real time, building dense soundscapes, while pulling it all together into an abstract song structure.

Funafuji’s style is eclectic; from reggae and funk to dubstep and blues and just about anything with a fat warm bass line. You can find her playing at trance parties in the chill tent, to sweaty basement gigs with organ penetrating bass and a whole lot in between.

The colossal three-headed, big-beat, glitch-crazy, electronic beat monster: Liver & Chamber Concept could not get lost between your teeth, the seats of your couch or in a tank factory. ‘Glitched-Out-Big-Beat-Rap’ would best describe the contorted electric flares, with which this titanic fire-breather has seared clubs, festivals and tours across the nation. The journey of the beast has only just begun. Liver samples his original tracks live on stage while Chamber Concept specializes in making the crowd come alive. Allow for two days of post-gig body spasms.

Richard the Third is a DJ / Producer whose style has been described in SL Magazine as a “gluttonous mix of pop and electronica”. If you’re on the dancefloor at bar/clubs such as The End Is Nigh, The Woods, the Assembly, Fiction or other such haunts, and Rich is on the ones and twos, expect such revelry to go down. The Third, as he is sometimes called, has retired from hip-hop and now focuses on making hair-raising, disco-burning electro and head-space hiptronica.

The bottom line with P.H.Fat is this: bass, rap and thick electronic beats, produced and performed fresh by Cape Town upstarts Mike Zietsman, Disco Israel and Naartjie. Produced with pedantic attention to detail. P.H.Fat’s songs and shows are crafted so every dip and climax has the power and dynamic relevance to the emotional journey the listener may go through. The live show is mental and the recorded tracks polished.

Markus started writing music in his early teens using Dos based software. At the age 18 Markus was signed to New York based record label Sound-ink. Since then he has released music with different collaborations. From sinisterly dark opera of the Black heart gang to the banging African ghetto tec of Sweat.x, from playing at Sonar to speaking as a honorary guest at the F5 conference in New York, from remixing Mf Doom to writing books. Markus has got his fingers in many pies.

Combining elements of punk, breakbeat and industrial with his already glitch-ridden Electroclash sound, Haezer has further rooted himself as a major player in the electro-dance revolution. His first single, ‘Sirens in the Night’ featuring Jax Panic was voted ‘Song of the Day’ by 5FM and the music video made it to #3 on the MK music channel Top 10. ‘Sirens in the night’ also made it to #1 on both UJFM’s local and international top 20 charts and secured a #1 position on MFM radio in Cape Town. His next single, ‘Who the Fuck is Haezer’ will be released in October 2009.

With the focus shifting to creating an ever increasing catacomb of their own productions and remixes, Grave Danger’s DJ sets are packed tighter than a mass burial with booming bass lines, mesmerizing hooks and hypnotic beats. Genre hopping through indie, electro, house, mashup and breaks their sets delivered over a decent system are guaranteed to get even the most frigid corpse on the floor from start to finish!

Killer Robot is more than just a techno night. Since its humble beginnings at Fiction in 2006, KR has devoted itself singlemindedly to the promotion of underground electronic music culture in South Africa from its support of local acts, to its staging of some of the worlds most cutting edge techno producers and djs. As a dj collective, its three members, Bruno Morphet, Ivan Turanjanin and Adam ‘AK47’ Klein have been at the forefront of the underground electronic music scene for over a decade, steadily rising to prominence through their own individual reputations as djs.

Hope you rested enough last night, cause Miss H will be waking your pretty little ears nice and early Sunday morning. She is excited to be back again this year. Her music swirls from groove jazz to sweet soul to get down funk to big beat hip hop to nice dub. She is one of the few female djs representing and staying true to her format, a die-hard vinyl junkie. Roll your pants up and take those shoes off and come for a boogie. You are definitely in for a treat.

Most DJ’s specialize in genre – Honey B prefers to focus on mood. As a classic selector she has experimented with everything but now focuses on swing and jazz as well as the massive African Dope genre.

The Republic of South Africa. Where it takes a lot to satisfy everybody, or even a handful of people. The hard and fast rule to stick by is to try one’s best to slide seamlessly through influences, genres, tastes, preferences or whatever the case may be. This is the approach of the live DJ trio coming out of Cape Town, Mix n Blend.

Alib’s vibe is simple: “I’ve been doing this twisted electro shit, messing around with records like daft punk. At the moment I’m more interested in giving people something different, a new take on a track they know, than producing original material.”

Prolific DJ and vinyl junkie Low believes techno is more of a mindset than a genre and continues to push some serious boundries