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Nastie.ed

admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:37:00 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:34:19 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:31:33 +0000

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.

Kid Fonque

admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:27:50 +0000

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…

Circuswing

admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:22:50 +0000

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.

Soul Revolution

admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:20:07 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:15:46 +0000

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”.

Psycles

admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:14:42 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:06:19 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:03:46 +0000

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.