Canamii
Prog rock fans are going to love this classic keyboard driven fable off the seminal SA album, 'Concept'. Originally released in 1980, this sole album by studio engineer/producer Phillip Nel, vocalist Claire Whittaker, and guitarist Paul Woodley is comparable to early ELP, Curved Air and Renaissance with its fusion flourishes and soaring vocals.
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Danie Nel
Talented Mother City singer songwriter gives acoustic Afrikaans fans their fix with this sombre, sensitive guitar strum off his new album "Een". You may remember him from the band 'Even' in the late nineties, who played a rhythmic eclectic mix of funk, folk and rock.
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Gary Herselman
Koos Kombuis's classic gets a tongue-in-cheeky electro overhaul on this creative de-and-reconstruction off 'Kombuis Musiek'. The compilation features host of triphop, punk, electronica, dance and vocalists reinterpretingd, revising, reworking and revisiting Koos' catalogue.
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Guy Buttery
Internationally-acclaimed SA guitarist shares this micro-folk gem off 'Fox Hill Lane', the winner of the 2010 SAMA Award for Best Instrumental Album. It's a meditative instrumental ballad textured with acoustic steel and nylon strung guitars, sitar, tampura, harmonium, polypipe, grand piano, lapsteel guitar, dobro, percussion and more.
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Guy Onraet
Emerging guitarist and composer fires off this progressive, mathematical metallic instrumental rock riff work out off his debut album, 'Invention City'. Trainspotters take note: the album was inspired by, and is loosely based on, the 'Dark Tower' series of novels by Stephen King.
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Kalahari Surfers
Pioneering dub alchemist Warrick Sony mainlines some much needed political mojo back onto the dance floor with his sample-delic collage of electro-funk glitch grooves off his new album, 'One Party State'.
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Marcia Moon
Pretoria-based singer songstress gives fans of Neko Case, Natalie Merchant and Josie Field's beatific folk rock their fix on this superb new single off her excellent debut album, 'A Gradual Awakening'.
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Mavis Vermaak
Mother City siren shares this poetically bruised tale of love, fear, loathing and surviving life in Cape Town. Fans of Buckfever Underground and Jane Rademeyer, this gem off her self-titled album is for you.
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Mr Mac & The Genuines
Banjo legend Sam 'Mr Mac' McKenzie teams up with Mother City goema jazz gurus Ian Herman, Hilton Schilder, Gerard O´Brien, and Gerald 'Mac' McKenzie on this fabulously funky minstrel carnival de-and-reconstruction off their album 'Mr Mac and the Genuines'. Released back in 1987 on the seminal Shifty Records label.
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OZ
Durban’s new Hip Hop sensation, OZ produces this fresh energetic Inanda wrapped tune, "Imal 'Yam" (aka “The Money”) off his 2010 EP Direct Translation. OZ explains: "My chorus depicts a young adult's longing for a bigger house, a bigger ride and a healthier financial status. Something we all openly want." Honest, or what?
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Rambling Bones
Fuzigish front man, Jay Bones trades in his frenzied ska-punk mosh pit party for a chilled acoustic finger picked folk ballad duet about breaking up and making up. Off his debut solo album, 'Watching & Waiting'.
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The Beat Bangaz
Ricardo Nunes, aka DJ Azuhl drops this battle break with Africa's iconic turntablist group The Beat Bangaz (alongside Ready D, E-20 and Shamiel X). Off Azuhl and Grenville Williams's (High Voltage) showcase of Funk, Ragga and Hip Hop artists, 'African Shockwave Vol I'.
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The Cape Town Sessions
Smooth jazz fans are in for a rare treat with this mouth watering Cape jazz mixed masala. Off the new compilation from African Cream records which showcases moppies (comic songs), which emanated from the ghoemaliedjies (picnic songs) which encouraged people to dance in the streets.
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Van Coke Cartel
This third single (and latest video) from their hit album 'Skop, Skiet & Donner' is Van Coke Kartel’s version of the Koos du Plessis classic from the early eighties. The musical treatment by producer Peach van Pletzen, as well as Francois van Coke’s unique rendition, makes the song a remarkable tribute to a South African icon.
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Vundras
Hip-hop fans after more than another booty-rap attack? Tune into this deep bass driven slow rap groove about real love from this rising star who is currently one of the brightest hopes on the hip NY-E-ZI Records label roster.
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