Wiehahn Diederichs: A Story in the Making
Photographer, writer, music lover, avid gamer, and foosball player – Wiehahn Diederichs dabbles in a bit of everything. We asked the Bellville-based 23-year-old about how he ended up behind the lens, film vs. digital and his dreams of space.
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...
| 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...
JOBURG PARTY! – A snapshot of SA’s new youth underground
Over two days and nights in Johannesburg, South Africa, Rod Stanley & Chris Saunders travelled to illegal rooftop parties, warehouse raves, street fashion shoots and poolside jams to meet some of the young musicians, DJs, zine publishers and artists set on taking the SA scene global, and asked them how the city’s youth culture is...
Dancing for Money: Documenting the Wedding DJ’s
MJ Lourens’ documentary, Dancing for Money, follows the successful Cape Town-based Wedding DJs duo consisting of Charles Miller aka Chopper Charley and Donald Swanepoel as Super Deluxe 3000. (Length: 40:18)
Survival tips for SA writers | An interview with Ben Trovato
‘Unemployed columnist. Author of ten books. Hasn’t seen a royalty cheque in years. Lives alone with two regrets and a hangover.’ (Twitter Bio, Ben Trovato). To follow is a candid, highly engaging (and somewhat typical!) interview conducted by writer Keara Edwards with the famous/infamous Sunday Times writer and publisher of numerous books, Ben Trovato.
Interview | Fox Comet | Blazing Trails and Fiery Tales
They’ve taken over stages at big name festivals like Synergy, Rocking the Daisies, Up the Creek and Rock the River, and now — after four years — Fox Comet has finally released their debut album. Blazing Trails and Fiery Tales is set to ignite South Africa’s rock circuit, and Fox Comet haven’t skipped a beat...
WE LOVE SEXY INTERVIEW I: ELANI JACOBS
Elani Jacobs is a photographer from Bloemfontein whose photographs that she uploaded to onesmallseed.net have featured in many Images of the Week selections, and in November, 2012, her album One Last Shoot became Album of the Week on onesmallseed.com. More recently, her eye-catching portraits of women have also been in the spotlight through our media...
Interview | The Art of Doing | Arno Faure
Arno Faure is the imaginative founder of the Art of Doing — a dynamic project that portraits artists, craftsmen and creative visionaries doing what they love. The online platform and its founder are touring the world of creativity in an effort to rejuvenate and energise people to begin their own artistic journeys. Included in the...
Interview | Sgrow
Together, Vilde Nupen and Kristoffer Lislegaard create the Norwegian electronic duo, Sgrow. Nupen sings while Lislegaard is in charge of the electronics, guitar and visuals. Their sound merges pop-esque melodies with haunting guitar riffs and beats to create a sound all their own that’s addictive. On May 8th their self-titled EP was released and we...
ATOM BAND | ‘CRAPTASTIC’ MELANCHOLIC PUNK
Atom Band – made up of Vasane Sinatra (vocals), John Shepherd (guitars), Ryan di Domenico (bass), Riaan Nirhoo (guitars) and JP de Reuck (drums) — manage to bring a heartfelt empathy embedded in noise-layered melodies to Jo’burg’s genre revival front. Loosely defined as no wave and post punk, they are transcribing the sound of the...
CULT COLLECTIVE: THE ICONIC MASH-UP | INTERVIEW & COMPETITION
William Ndatila — Burundi-born and raised in French Switzerland — and Miro Bijelich — Pretoria-born of Lebanese and Croatian parents — have joined paths to combine their spirit, passions and inspirations to form Cult Collective — a Johannesburg-based clothing and accessory brand that ‘merges clashing references in a collage of prints taken from global street...
Interview | Justin Bolognino: The ‘Synchronicity Architect’
Justin Bolognino is a jack-of-all-trades. The visionary entrepreneur has led marketing campaigns, produced documentary films, designed an environment for creative artists, and crafted inventive art pieces from some of the most unlikely, unreal materials. He does it all through the evolutionary gizmos of social media. The ‘Synchronicity Architect’ sketches his blueprint around making the hidden...
