Aurgus Dubstep Straddling Clubland like a Behemoth
I’m sad that Dubstep seems to have exited the underground scene as hastily as it arrived. It must have been 2009, I was a liberal-minded, drug-taking student who had recently stumbled upon an...
View ArticleOpinion Piece: Grooving – A story of Nostalgia
Grooving – A story of Nostalgia “I got sunshine in the daylight and moonlight every night, but I’m just grooving, grooving out on life. Yeah I’m just grooving, grooving out on life…” UB40. This is a...
View ArticleInvestigative Piece: A Day in the life of Music Experts/’Corner Lingerers’&...
“So, can you shuffle?” apparently, in a well known southern suburbs hip-hop hangout, this constitutes for an appropriate ice breaker. Looking at the skinny jeans paired with a blue cardigan and “queen...
View ArticleOpinion Piece: Dance Music VS Live Music
Pop idol Gloria Gaynor (you know, the lady who sang the ever famous ‘I will survive’) once said: “There’s nothing to compare to live music, there just isn’t.” But in music as we know it today, that...
View ArticleOpinion Piece: The Hustle of a Rookie DJ
“The industry‘s interaction with rookies is like a girl’s interaction with the guy standing at the bar: They want you to seduce them with your skills. If their friends don’t feel you, they won’t run...
View ArticleOpinion Piece: The Sincerest Form of Flattery – A South African Hip Hop Story
I am no politician but even I have heard that South Africa is experiencing what analysts have called a leadership vacuum. And I am no musician but again, my ears have reliably informed me that there is...
View ArticleThe 2011 DJ Mag top 100 Results
“My guess is that if the DJ Mag top 100 Poll is of utmost importance to you ,then I am also assuming your choice of top DJ’s was pretty accurate.” So the famous or infamous DJ Mag Top 100 Poll results...
View ArticleOpinion Piece: It All Began With The Drum
It all began with the drum. Allow me to get a little poetic on you, for the sake of telling a story… So without intending to dredge up the ugly past or lay the guilt trip, I’m going to dip into a...
View ArticleDie Antwoord leaves Interscope
Poor Ninja and Yo-Landi are all by their lonesome again, having ditched multi-million dollar record company Interscope. Don’t go flexing your worry-muscles though. All by their lonesome – dreaming up...
View ArticleOpinion Piece: The Modern Day Video/ Party Girl & The Booty Saga
To Booty or not to Booty? I could delve deep enough to try to understand who’s digging what and whether or not the plight of the modern day party girl is now superbly weighed-up with the necessity of a...
View ArticleOpinion Piece: The Kidz are alright
Authenticity VS The need for Purism and the chin strokers’ desire to be more legit than anybody else. Picture yourself strolling aimlessly down a nameless South African street. Your headphones booming...
View ArticleOpinion Piece: Now Everybody is Trance Dancing
Journalism student, Kylie Holliday, recently submitted this opinion piece as an assignment to well known music journalist and taste-maker, Evan Milton, as part of his seminar on music journalism at...
View ArticleState of the House Nation Address: The People Need Somebody
King David was a hoe. Just joking, wanted to make sure you don’t scroll to the next blog before reading mine. Now that that’s out of the way, let us get down to it. When house music first came to South...
View ArticleWhen Silence Is Golden
“…it sort of defeats the point if the voice layered over your meticulously arranged work makes the listener want to go out and drop-kick a cat.” There are few things that make me madder than a well...
View ArticleApocalypse 21 December 2012: It was a hectic day
“Man is – hands down – the most paranoid and self-centered organism amongst the myriads of millions of organisms on this planet” “Ja hy. I remember it like it was yesterday. Okay it was just like a...
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