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Picture Tree’s Fausto Becatti directs new Spoek Mathambo video
Picture Tree’s Fausto Becatti is the director behind Spoek Mathambo brand new video for Diesel+EDUN’s Studio Africa project. Titled Awufuni – or You Should Have Called (My Heart) – the clip is a colour-saturated, high-energy tribute to modern women that also exposes the vibrancy, creativity, and rich culture of South Africa. I wanted to celebrate...
Schemes of Love and Rubbish | Coco Bryce Q&A
Dutch producer/DJ and label-owner, Coco Bryce, is known for his eclectic dubstep, hip-hop and skweee DJ sets and productions, as well as his collaborations with and/or remixes for artists like SLUGABED, Kr∆mpfh∆ft, Pixelord & Kelpe. On Club Tropikana, released via Fremdtunes in March 2013, Bryce indulges in the sort of musical alchemy that sounds like...
Ghostly International presents Andy Gilmore
A master of colour and geometric composition, Andy Gilmore‘s work is often characterized as kaleidoscopic and hypnotic, though it could just as well be described as visually acoustic, his often complex arrangements referencing the scales and melodies in music.(Length: 04.02)
| New Music | Crystal Stilts – ‘Future Folklore’
Crystal Stilts share a new track ‘Future Folklore” off their excellent new album ‘Nature Noir’ out September 16 on Sacred Bones Records. Founded by vocalist Brad Hargett and guitarist JB Townsend, Crystal Stilts have since come to include Andy Adler on bass, Keegan Cooke on drums, and organist Kyle Forester. Together the five-piece have crafted...
| Competition | NomadiQ Music Presents: The Rustic Nomads
What you seek is seeking you Clouds of winter may descend but nothing will damper the spirit of a rustic nomad. Saturday the 3rd of August will see the third of five events designed to showcase NomadiQ Music – a label that holds hands with Cape Town-based creative space, it’s a house. Both of these...
New York’s OLD MONEY creating FIRE IN THE DARK
Ahmad Julian and Andre Oswald are Old Money; a New York-based rap, production and DJ duo of Jamaican and Guyanese origins. Their music incorporates the sounds of contemporary Africa such as UK funky, dancehall, kwaito, kuduro and hip-hop while remaining rooted in traditions of pan-African philosophy. In this way, their output remains dynamic and cutting-edge,...
INTRODUCING: SWEDEN’S PUNK DUO, VULKANO
Erupting from the coast of Stockholm, Sweden, Vulkano is an explosive new duo pushing punk forward in their own charming way… Uncompromising, extrovert and maximalist. With a passion for astrology, the paranormal and nature, healing stones, tropical landscapes, mythology and mountains, we introduce the constantly headbanging Lisa Pyk-Wirström (keyboards/percussion) and the tour de force, the...
PHFAT – House of Clashes (Official Music Video)
‘House of Clashes’ is the first single off PHFAT’s new album HAPPINESS MACHINES and combines lo-fi aesthetics with surrealist art house, cheesy horror and tragicomedy. It was directed with a strong focus on off-kilter portraiture, jarring composition and opposing combinations of beauty and gore. The video is a representation of everything the song says, everything...
Boys Noize: The one small seed Interview
Making music for over half his lifetime, Alex Ridha, well-known to the world of electronic music as Boys Noize, has graced some of the world’s biggest stages performing alongside huge industry names. An undying work ethic and motivation to take electronic music to the next level on a global scale, Boys Noize has remixed and...
LOVE INKS: Generation Club
Austin trio, LOVE INKS, are excited to premiere their stunning first single ‘Solar Diary’; a new track from their upcoming second album titled Generation Club, which is out on 23 September via Austin label Monofonus Press.
| Interview | Ambient reveries with sexinadream
‘Deep, dark and mysterious’ is how Cape Town’s ambi-electro-dreampop duo – sexinadream – describe their sound. After the successful release of their first single titled ‘Pink Box‘, founding members Mavis Vermaak and Wessel Albertse are ready to release new sounds to the world’s ears. We decided to find out how this electro-duo goes about making...
TERMINATRYX: A New Breed of SA Music
Cape Town’s female-fronted industrial-metal band TERMINATRYX (pronounced: ‘Terminaytricks’) has crossed the 10-year mark and have a new studio album on the way. The band continues to fight their audio-visual battle to create uncompromising alternative music in a country that, they feel, pays little attention to the genres with which the band is passionately engaged, from...
#bottomrightcorner: The Contributor Edition
Every week we compile a selection of music to sing you into the weekend and list them in a post called #bottomrightcorner. Sometimes new tunes, sometimes themed tunes and sometimes we ask a music aficionado to choose the tunes for us. This week, we hand over the selection process to our unofficial Detroit contributor, Mr...
