Summer is on its way, which usually means sunshine and good times, but for some of you, it’ll mean heartbreak as your significant other decides they’re FINALLY done with your shit, and discards you for a rotating roster of holiday lovers. Whilst you look back over the last few months/years/decades and think about all the…
“I spent a lot of time by myself so I never really engaged in what was happening” explains RRA of his childhood in Rustenburg. While his older brother lay his rap foundation by introducing him to hip hop in Primary School, his attraction to alternative sounds and artists came from scouring the internet discovering music…
LCD displays building inch by inch of pixelated data. Grotesque, mutant like clay sculptures basking in red tones open up a peculiar night terror filled with white light reminiscent of an operating theatre from space opera cinema. An alien feeling prevails. Detachment. Then we see him in a glass case. Intersections come to mind between…
As noted in a discussion on the cultural value of Hip Hop on Oxford University’s Arts Blog, Hip hop as a musical and global cultural form forces us to think critically about what we define as valuable knowledge, who we recognise as knowledge producers, and how knowledge can be created and shared. The study and…
Just over a year ago, a new home for music and creativity opened it’s massive wooden sliding door in Durban’s Rivertown precinct. While most of the Rivertown “urban renewal” project in Durban has pretty much failed, with spaces that were promised to become cultural hubs, like 8 Morisson and ‘The Shed’, laying dormant, there’s a…
With the release of his first international album, Everyone’s Just Winging It and Other Fly Tales, Kenyan producer and performing artist Blinky Bill brings together his various influences and experiences that have shaped this multifaceted artist. Raised in Nairobi, the soundtrack of his youth featured his mom’s religious songs and dad’s vintage Congolese sounds. Later on,…
Contemporary German music has gained an international reputation for experimentation and elegant precision. In the 1970s, Krautrock artists like Can, Neu! and Faust made wild psychedelic rock that exploded the limits of human consciousness. As the Berlin Wall was falling, the city was pumping out techno that perfectly captured the alluring alienation of modern life….
According to his own press kit, Omar Morto is having the best year of his career, and it’s easy to see why. While Omar has been instrumental in building the careers of others through his role as a producer on Good Hope FM, and with his label [CAPECLUB], lately Omar has been taking big steps…
It’s weird, I don’t know if Bubblegum Club readers would already know who Kaien Cruz is. Like, you should, she’s been all over radio and TV, but maybe you don’t listen to radio and don’t watch TV, so maybe you’re out of the loop and you’re missing out? Maybe you don’t know that Kaien featured…
“We all worked together to create a mythical story within the imagined universe of ‘Furies’, inspired by the idea of ‘Thaumogenesis’: a process through which a demon is believed to be created as a by-product of a resurrection technique. When a resurrection ritual takes place, two holes are created, and two spiritual entities may enter the…
“My music is death music. My beats have this dark, heavy atmosphere, but I don’t think that darkness is a negative thing”. Sipping a juice on a sunny Friday afternoon, rapper and beatmaker Lanii Clouds is explaining the philosophy behind his prolific body of work. Since 2013, the Johannesburg based artist has been releasing a…
Named after and created thanks to encouragement from his mother, Thor Rixon’s latest album “Michele” sees the Cape Town-based producer explore dance music for the first time. “My mom loves dance music and for ages she wanted me to make dance music, so I thought why not give it a go, ended up falling in…
