I know premium streaming services like Deezer, Apple Music and Spotify are fast becoming the way many music fans with a decent internet connection consume music, but I still get most of my new music from Soundcloud. Granted, I was still making mixtapes for my walkman when my friends were all bumping to Bump on…
Since bursting onto the scene in 2016 with their single ‘Booty Sweat’, which blew up the internet, the Joburg based rap duo known as Champagne69 has been releasing a number of follow up singles and honing their sound. While they’re embracing their relative success, they hadn’t actually planned on getting into the rap game. “It…
A musician, writer and photographer based in Cape Town, Andy Mkosi’s music is influenced by a variety of genres but it was through hip hop that she emerged into the world of music as a performer. Fascinated by the lyrical content of songs, she started writing her own material which she assumed at the time…
Highly original and imaginative, Klein’s music can seem daunting at first but reveals an underlying familiarity in its curated chaos. “If you get through the first song of the EP you’ll like it because I was aware the first song of the record is so intense,” Klein laughs. A collage of reshaped samples, pitch shifted…
There are a few things we know about the enigmatic palmdrive aka deadprocession aka ujochi aka Josh Scheepers: He loves taking naps, making music, skateboarding, playing retro games and tweeting about Charli XCX and GRIMES. In that order. He’s also a pretty sweet graphic designer by day (and sometimes night), but having a day job…
Swiss drummer, instrumentalist and electronic producer Christian Pahud is spending a few months in Johannesburg as part of a Pro Helvetia residency. He hopes to create a mixed arts project based on the meeting between African culture and his own experiences and perspective as a Swiss artist. Practicing as an artist for almost 20 years,…
If you’re a night-owl and you listen to Ukhozi FM, there’s a good chance you’ve heard DJ Prie Nkosazana taking you through the graveyard shift from 1:30. I don’t listen to Ukhozi so I heard about her from those more knowledgeable than myself. Turns out I’ve been sleeping – which is fair considering the time…
While he is best known for his integral part in the production trio Ivy League that created tracks for the likes of PRO, Khuli Chana, AKA, Tuks, Solo, Teargas & Prokid, Buks’ music career started in high school when he was a rapper in the group Entity alongside school mate AKA. With a musical background…
Having listened to Richard D. James Album at 16 and discovered the music making software Fruity Loops soon after this, Veld fell in love with electronic production techniques. We had a chat with him about about his musical journey and got a bespoke taste of his talent with his Bubblegum Club mix. Can you tell…
With his debut album ‘Your Princess is in another Castle’, Johannesburg based artists Loui Lvndn presents a body of work with a clear concept and narrative. On the album the singer, songwriter, rapper, performing artist, visual artist and writer uses the video game character Mario and his repetitive quest to rescue his princess as a…
Hailing from Johannesburg, rapper, producer and all-round artist deKiller’Clown’s music draws inspiration from the sounds around him and the situations he finds himself in. With an older sister who studied sound engineering and introduced him to a lot of music including hip hop he started making music from a young age. “I started making music…
While the AKAs and Cassper Nyovests of the world rack up hundreds of thousands of plays in a few days – with massive fan bases and PR teams that make Bell Pottinger look like first year students – Sipho The Gift, like the slow and steady tortoise, has managed to clock over 115k plays on…
