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Bottils’ End of the Continent EP is Full of Hidden Treasures

Would you like to be somewhere else right now?  Well, lucky for you, I’ve found a teleportation device of sorts. While your physical surroundings might stay the same, put Bottils’ End of the Continent – Part One EP in your ears and you’ll be magically transported somewhere deep inside of yourself. Scenes play out in…

Laliboi Wants the Kids to Reconnect with Who They are

Great-grandson of Xhosa author W.K. Tamsanqa; Siphosenkosi Nkodlwane also known as LaliBoi Xhosa, draws a great deal of inspiration for his music from the works of his wordsmith great-grandfather who was an ever-present part of his life. From the artistic legacy of his great-grandfather, Laliboi draws inspiration specifically for his love of the Xhosa language…

Haich Ber Na on Everywhere’s Home

Haich Ber Na is taking a new approach to his sound on his sophomore E.P Everywhere’s Home. On this new project, the London based artist plays with darker undertones to create a sound that feels different from his previous work. “I wrote the music last winter, so naturally I guess it has a darker feel….

SEXXUS’s new EP is a Dystopian Dark Dance dream

To say dark dance is niche within the South Africa music landscape is an understatement. Our club scenes are dominated by Amapiano, House and whatever they use to play for the roided up boets at Tiger Tiger Fourways. Undoubtedly South Africa has a long and rich history of electronic music from Disco in the ’80s,…

Muzi Needs to be a Better Person to Create Better Art

When we look back on the 2010’s as a period in South African music history, I believe that Muzi is a name that is going to come up in countless conversations, articles and lists. While many of you will know Muzi from his breakout 2018 album, Afrovision, he spent most of the last decade steadily…

Fireman R5 tackles Black Tax on his latest single

Thabiso Ngubeni, better known by his stage-name Fireman R5 is an independent rapper and artist from Vosloorus in the East Rand. His latest single, “Black Tax”, speaks of the social issues faced by young unemployed and working-class black South Africans and the aspirations to change this cycle. The song was born out of a personal…

Albany Lore’s ‘Payphone’ is Timeless

Albany Lore might just be showing his age by naming his latest release ‘Payphone’. Nobody under the age of 30 knows that if you wanted to have a phone call in a place other than your lounge, we used to have to use our pocket money to make private phone calls on public payphones. A…

Kanye West and The Crisis of The Neoliberal Self

In merely a decade, the release of a new Kanye West album has gone from being an eagerly anticipated cultural event to a frustrating exercise in trolling. I’m writing this on Monday, 30 September and the new Jesus is King, announced for the previous week, has failed to arrive. By the time you read this…