45 Degrees brings us “vibes to help us dance with the angles”, with the arrival of his debut EP called Pinocchio Mode. The EP’s title is a nod to the classic Disney animated film, Pinocchio about a wooden puppet that desperately dreams of becoming a human boy. The 6-track EP—doused in experimental soundscapes and high-pitched…
Richard Liefeldt’s entry into the music industry began some years ago as the lead singer of experimental psychedelic band, Retro Dizzy. Their catapult into the local scene has been marked with mystery. However, theatrics of mystique aside, Richard confirms that “we are all just big softies who love making music together”. Since then, Richard’s persona…
DISTORTED SONGS FOR DISTORTED PEOPLE by FRNGE, is the latest offering from Wet Dreams Recordings; who consistently have been releasing project after project championing the weird and wonderful world of alternative and underground electronic music. Let’s just say the label doesn’t shy away from putting out projects that sonically flip the script on what we…
enid ze, is the sonicscape brainchild fleshed by Zimbabwean-born Yale University graduate of Philosophy of Religion and musician Nyasha Chiundiza. The work of mediating his imagination and daydreams through music has been a part of Nyasha’s life from the age of eight as he was growing up in the suburbs of Harare, Zimbabwe. Under the…
Born in exile to a South African father and a Dutch mother, Joya Mooi is a singer and songwriter who is attempting to challenge the perceptions of what it means to be an artist of mixed heritage in the Netherlands. “Growing up I saw women that were mixed race [but they] were in this whole…
On June 21 Cistamatic released their industrial rock track title “FLESH PRINCE I (whatdoesyourskintastelike?)” and its accompanying music video, as the first part of a trilogy which will be released in the coming months. Created by Cistamatic’s brainchild Gabbi Le Roux, Flesh Prince is an androgynous, half-vampyr and heir to the seediest alleys in the…
Mx Blouse’s debut album, Elementality, was born out of a desire to create songs about human connections and not with the intention of creating an album. Upon realising that 8 of the tracks they had recorded worked together, Mx Blouse decided to compile and release them as an album. “I think I ended up making…
Feminine energy, energy reign Intuition and ambition Intuition strange Intuition and ambition Running through my veins Pour up the love let the healing begin Energy by Sampa The Great A powerful and husky voice elucidates the lyric’s of Sampa The Great’s body of work; it is a voice originating from a femme being and one…
Angel-Ho’s latest single titled “Turn Around”, co-written with and featuring sultry musician and witch Snixxjones, is a 70s disco music inspired sonic snack. The beat feels both familiar and oh so good moving through your ears and into the rest of ones body; a dance floor anthem that instantaneously gets your head bopping, hips gyrating…
“I’m not gonna be that artist that’s gonna put out the same body of work until I die, because that’s probably gonna be the reason I die — ’cause that sounds boring.” Sudan Archives Signed to Stones Throw Records in LA; Sudan Archives released her debut studio album Athena in 2019; an immense body of…
“It’s not as if we have a shortage of music coming out of South Africa”. A truer statement than this one by Rose Bonica/Natalie-Rose Perel is hard to find, that’s for sure. It’s unreal, the sheer volume of high quality, boundary-pushing music that has come out of Mzansi in recent memory and there’s no sign…
To South African listeners the hypnotising droning of a dembow rhythm might seem as foreign as they come. In fact Reggaeton and its signature rhythmic structure is not really something heard all that often within a South African context or at least, so I thought, but let’s just say that the popularity of Reggaeton isn’t…
