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Eyedress Hates The Police

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…

Falling in love with Alice Phoebe-Lou’s ‘Something Holy’

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’…

Yugen Blakrok // The Essence of Carbon Form

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…

Keabruh&Jay.B want to normalise queer culture

Both hailing from Vosloorus in the East Rand, it was their mutual love of poetry that brought Keabruh and Jay.B together. Now residing in Johannesburg, the two have been making music together since 2016. “The only way we could get to be heard was to put a beat to it. People resonate more with music than…

Deadly Bites Sink Their Teeth In

When I hear the name Deadly Bites, I imagine a lurid, D-grade exploitation movie from the 1970s or 1980s. It could be an Italian Zombie film, where the poorly made-up ghoul’s stumble around biting actors who utter badly written dialogue in roughly dubbed English. Alternately, it could be a revenge of nature tale where a…

The Other Records stock what their name implies

The Other Records started as a small section in a clothing store a year ago and has since morphed into a physical space. Featuring a selection of music you’d be hard-pressed to find in other shops, The Other Records specialises in primarily electronic music from all spheres. The small space is colourful and filled with…

dJinns Make Magical Music

Listening to dJinns, an unassumingly dope two-piece musical project from Jozi, I genuinely struggle with the fact that they’re 18. There’s a maturity and nonchalant coolness to their work that even at my big age, I don’t think I could ever achieve. Francesco Mbele (Vocals and songwriting) and Jesse Elk (Producer and composer) seem to…

The Temple- Building Musical Monuments

When I first opened the link to The Temple’s new EP Lusaka, I was blown away by the effervescence of their music. While the release harkened back to the optimistic beat of 1990’s Kwaito, it’s dense, swirling production is utterly contemporary, clearly in conversation with the hardness of Trap and Gqom. But unlike those intense,…