The product of friends chilling together, ‘For The Record’ is a statement by four artists about their disparate, lived realities that have shared experiences as people of colour. The Cape Town-based artists, Laudable, Samurai Farai, Būjin and eND, all met through mutual friends and approached the creation of the track not with the intention of…
With a versatile voice and activities in a variety of projects, Durban-based singer/songwriter Nipho Hurd doesn’t want to be boxed in by any particular genre. “You start boxing in how creative you can be. You’re always thinking in this genre format and the ideas are coming in another format that you’re not appreciating,” she explains….
In the early days of Boyzn Bucks, I had the pleasure of interviewing some of the crew via Skype for the first print edition of Hypetrak (Hypebeast’s now defunct music publication). Back then, uSanele described himself as a DJ, and designer of fashion and graphics, but I’d heard from people who knew him in Durban…
While ‘Diffusion Is a Force’ is the second album released by Martina Lussi, this was the first time the Lucerne, Switzerland-based sound artist sat down with the intention of creating one. “With the first album, most of the tracks were already finished the day the label asked me to do a release. So I didn’t…
We live in an era where attention has become one of the most valuable resources. “Influencers” want it, brands want it, politicians want it, artists want it, little kids want it, you want it, I want it. And while we rake in the likes online, it’s harder than ever to actually make anyone really pay…
With the release of his debut solo project, “The Final Call“, the vocalist and composer Sakhile Moleshe invites listeners to tap into the conversations taking place in his head. Describing it as diary-style, Sakhile says that “if someone adjusts their listening to feel like [they’re] paging through someone’s diary with or without permission, that’s what…
Kwazulu-Natal born, non-gender conforming artist Sandiso Ngubane better known as M(x) Blouse shouldn’t be restricted in their expression of their artistic vision. Publications and pundits have already tried to place Ngubane into an arbitrary box as a queer hip-hop artist. This is a title that Ngubane has made evident they don’t agree with. “I don’t…
Eyedress, the recording moniker of Filipino musician Idris Vicuña, is making whacked out music perfect for a disturbing world. His albums Manila Ice and Sensitive G alluringly blend hazy dream pop and shimmering shoegaze with the antisocial attitude of gutter punk and gangsta rap. He sounds like he’s from an alternate timeline where in the…
Not many artists in the 2010s can claim that their first release was on a cassette tape, but as you’ll discover for yourself, Iglooghost isn’t like most artists. The esoteric producer’s career kicked off with the release of a limited edition cassette called Treetunnels back in 2014, and it wasn’t long after that that he…
With a crystalline soprano voice and an honest approach to writing, Alice Phoebe-Lou’s music has touched people from around the world. Her fiercely independent approach to music can be seen in her move from Cape Town to Europe at 16 to busk, an experience which saw her develop her sound, release her debut EP ‘Momentum’…
In a blog post by uDiscoverMusic, it is noted that the early days of hip-hop saw female rappers as an essential component to the genre’s biology, unapologetically detailing their interpretations and experiences of the world they lived in. They all had distinct variations in style, flow and lyrical content, but what each woman had in…
The first time I heard Ricky Tyler was when I played him on my radio show on DYR 105.1. I was looking for a song to play after Beyonce and Jay-Z’s Deja Vu and I spotted Ricky’s track of the same name. I thought it would be pretty funny to cue up two songs named…
